New ! Macbook Air

January 17 | Posted by Andri Kurniawan | New Gadgets, Notebook

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It seems like going green is the theme this year what with Apple taking pains to ensure MacBook Air is environmentally friendly. The casing is made of aluminum with a 13.3-in. mercury-free glass display. The notebook, which is a whopping 56% thinner than MacBook Pro, has a tapering width which ranges from 0.76-0.16 inches — the largest end of the measure still being thinner than the thinnest part of ordinary laptops.

MacBook Air has black full-sized keyboard, LED backlit screen, built-in iSight camera and a trackpad which has multi-touch gesture support. By that it means you can set different gestures to correspond to different commands (scroll, zoom, delete, etc.). The Air uses Intel Core 2 Duo processors which has been shrinked down to 60% from its original size to fit inside the MacBook Air. According Intel’s CEO, Paul Otellini, “The CPU is the width of a dime, the thickness of a nickel, and we didn’t think we could do it.” They did.

The Air sports 1.8-in hard drives, USD 2.0, microDVI port and headphone jacks. It has Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 802.11n WiFi connectivity. What’s missing with the MacBook Air? An optical drive. BUT, you can buy a separate bus-powered drive worth US$99. Apple also has a new software called “Remote Disc” which lets you connect to others computers’ drives, even PCs. You get 5 hours of battery life when you’re actively surfing the internet with the MacBook Air.


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