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MacBook Air has amazing new graphics—up to four times faster1—and a larger hard drive. Yet it’s still ultrathin, ultraportable, and ultra unlike anything else. It’s just 0.16 inch at its thinnest point, 0.76 inch at its thickest point, and a mere 3.0 pounds.2 With powerful new NVIDIA graphics, a bigger hard drive, 2GB of fast DDR3 SDRAM, and the Intel Core 2 Duo processor, MacBook Air has more power for everyday tasks. But unlike other ultraportable designs, it doesn’t compromise on features. It includes a bright 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, full-size backlit keyboard, spacious Multi-Touch trackpad, and built-in iSight camera. Engineered for the wireless world, MacBook Air also comes with 802.11n Wi-Fi,3 Bluetooth 2.1, and Remote Disc to deliver unparalleled wireless versatility. Mobile computing has yet another new standard. 1Testing conducted by Apple in October 2008 using preproduction 1.86GHz Intel Core 2 Duo–based MacBook Air units with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. MacBook Air systems with 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo and Intel GMA X3100 were shipping units. MacBook Air continuously monitors system thermal and power conditions, and may adjust processor speed as needed to maintain optimal system operation. 2Weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process. 3Based on an IEEE 802.11n draft specification. Wireless Internet access requires a base station or other wireless access point and Internet access; fees may apply. Some ISPs are not currently compatible with AirPort. 41GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less. 5Video chatting requires a broadband Internet connection; fees may apply.
With the MacBook Air, Apple has created the world's thinnest laptop--measuring an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point (and 0.76 inches thick overall). Apple brings its vaunted multi-touch technology, found on the iPhone, to its laptops with the MacBook Air, enabling you to pinch, swipe, or rotate to zoom in on text, advance through a photo album, or adjust an image via the oversized trackpad. And the MacBook Air embodies Apple's continuing environmental progress with its aluminum enclosure, a material highly desired by recyclers; Apple's first mercury-free LCD display with arsenic-free glass; and brominated flame retardant-free material for the majority of circuit boards as well as PVC-free internal cables.
Despite the its slender shell, the MacBook Air doesn't skimp on the specifications. It includes a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, full-size and backlit keyboard, and a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing. The MacBook Air is powered by a custom-built 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, which provides an optimized, multithreaded architecture for improved multitasking performance. And it features the integrated NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor, which delivers outstanding 3D game play with up to five times faster graphics performance than the previous generation. This model is loaded with a 128 GB solid-state drive, which has no moving parts for enhanced durability. Other features include 2 GB of RAM, Wi-Fi connectivity via 802.11a/b/g/n standards, Mini DisplayPort video output (for DVI and VGA connections), and up to a 4.5-hour battery life.
It comes pre-loaded with Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system, which adds over 300 new features including easy backup of your most important data via Time Machine, a redesigned desktop that helps eliminate clutter, and the newest version of the fast-loading Safari web browser. It also comes with the iLife '08 suite of applications, including iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, and iTunes.
Design
The thinness of MacBook Air is impressive, but even more impressive is that fact that there's a full-size notebook encased in the 0.16 to 0.76 inch of sleek, sturdy anodized aluminum. This svelte, 3-pound laptop has a vibrant, energy efficient 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, and its spacious trackpad offers multi-touch gesture support for pinch, rotate and swipe--making it more intuitive than ever to browse and rotate photos or zoom into web pages in Safari. It also features a full-size keyboard that's backlit, making it ideal for dimly lit environments such as airplanes, studios or conference halls. It includes a built-in ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the brightness of the keys as well as the display brightness for optimal visibility.
 Amazingly thin at just 0.16 inches at its thinnest and 0.76 inches at its thickest point, the MacBook Air weighs just 3 pounds. |
One of Apple's most celebrated innovations is the MagSafe power adapter connector, which offers a magnetic connection instead of a physical one. So, if you happen to trip over a power cord, you won't send the MacBook Air flying off a table or desk--the cord simply disconnects, without damage to either the cord or the system.
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Custom-built to fit within the compact dimensions of the laptop, the MacBook Air is powered by a 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with a super-fast 1066 MHz front-side bus (FSB), and an enormous 6 MB of Smart Cache, an L2 cache that can be shared between the cores as needed. (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores data; and a larger L2 cache can help speed up your system's performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front-side bus will deliver better overall performance.)
The Intel Core 2 Duo's 128-bit SSE3 vector engine handles 128-bit computations in a single clock cycle, accelerating data manipulation by simultaneously applying a single instruction to multiple data. And its two execution cores are designed to share resources and conserve power, helping it to achieve higher levels of performance since it uses fewer watts. And with 4MB of shared L2 cache, the MacBook Air is a multi-tasking monster. With such substantial L2 cache, data and instructions can be kept close to the two processor cores, greatly increasing performance and allowing the entire system to work more efficiently. And, because the processor cores share the L2 cache, either can use the entire amount if the other happens to be idle.
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Whether you're working on a Keynote presentation or watching a movie before you catch a flight, every document, video, and photo on your MacBook Air will look sharp on the glossy 13.3-inch widescreen display. With the new NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics processor, the MacBook Air changes the game and just about everything you do with it. The 9400M provides up to an amazing 4x performance boost over the original MacBook Air. Photos appear in iPhoto quickly, transitions in Keynote are seamless, games play more smoothly, and movie and video playback is better than ever before. The 9400M graphics processor shares 256 MB of DDR3 SDRAM with main memory.
The MacBook Air now includes a next generation Mini DisplayPort, which delivers a pure digital signal that can drive up to a 30-inch widescreen display. The Mini DisplayPort is ultra-compact at just 10 percent the size of a full DVI connector, and is compatible with Apple's 24-inch Cinema Display. Adapters are also available for using VGA, DVI/HDMI and Dual-Link DVI displays
Hard Drive and Memory
For storage, this MacBook Air comes with a 128 GB solid-state hard drive. Faster and more reliable, solid memory provides a rapid boot-up and quicker access to applications while improving battery life. It's also more reliable than a hard disk drive because there are no moving parts. Since data is written to stationary memory instead of a spinning hard disk, you have less risk of hardware problems with the hard disk when you're on the move. The 2 GB of PC3-8500 DDR3 RAM (two SO-DIMMs of 1024 MB) has an industry-leading 1066 MHz speed, and it maximizes the capacity for this laptop.
Optical Drive
Because of the amazingly thin design of the MacBook Air, an optical (DVD/CD) drive was not included. To install software from a disc, you can wirelessly use or "borrow" optical drives on remote PCs or Macs using the Remote Disk feature. This allows you full access to an optical drive without having to haul one around. If you want to have an optical drive for burning CDs and DVDs, you can purchase the optional MacBook Air SuperDrive (sold separately). This multi-format CD/DVD read/write drive is powered by the MacBook Air's USB port, eliminating the need to carry a separate power adapter.
Networking
The MacBook Air doesn't include wired Ethernet networking, and instead relies solely on Wi-Fi to connect to your home network as well as wireless hotspots. The built-in 802.11n wireless networking provides up to five times the performance and twice the range of 802.11g, but it's also backward-compatible with 802.11a/b/g routers, enabling you to communicate with the a wide variety of Wi-Fi resources. It works seamlessly with the optional AirPort Extreme base station as well as Apple's Time Capsule Wi-Fi base station/hard drive--both of which include 802.11n capabilities. If you don't have access to a wireless network, you can use an optional USB Ethernet Adapter (sold separately)
Use the built-in Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) wireless technology to connect to your PDA or cell phone, synchronize addresses, or download pictures from your cell phone. You can also use a wireless headset for iChat audio chats and VoIP calls as well as quickly share files with a colleague.
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Artfully placed in the display bezel is an iSight camera, which enables easy video conferencing as well as allows you to snap pictures of yourself and create video podcasts. Using the iChat AV application, video conferencing is integrated into your iChat buddy list, so initiating a video conference is a breeze. iChat also lets you hold audio chats with up to 10 people and provides high-quality audio compression and full-duplex sound so conversation can flow naturally. For video podcasting, you can record a short clip using the iSight camera, then use iWeb to create a video blog entry or post your GarageBand-recorded podcast.
Other Features
- Mini DisplayPort compatible with DVI, VGA, and dual-link DVI connectors (all optional)
- Analog audio output/headphone out (minijack)
- Built-in mono speaker and omnidirectional microphone
- Integrated 37-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery provides up to 5 hours of battery life
- Built-in full-size keyboard with 78 (U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys, including 12 function keys, 4 arrow keys (inverted "T" arrangement), and embedded numeric keypad
- Supported resolutions: 1280 by 800 (native), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, 800 by 500, 720 by 480, and 640 by 480 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio
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The entire new MacBook family meets stringent Energy Star 4.0, EPEAT Gold and RoHS environmental standards, and leads the industry in the elimination of toxic chemicals by containing no brominated flame retardants, using only PVC-free internal cables and components, and using energy efficient LED-backlit displays that are mercury-free and made with arsenic-free glass.
Preloaded with Leopard and iLife '08
The biggest Mac OS X upgrade ever, the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system features over 300 new features, including:
- Time Machine, an effortless way to automatically back up everything on a Mac
- A redesigned Finder that lets users quickly browse and share files between multiple Macs
- Quick Look, a new way to instantly see files without opening an application
- Spaces, an intuitive new feature used to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them
- A brand new desktop with Stacks, a new way to easily access files from the Dock
- Major enhancements to Mail and iChat
 Preloaded with Leopard, you'll enjoy enhanced productivity and a clutter-free desktop (thanks to the redesigned 3D Dock with Stacks). |
Time Machine lets you easily back up all of the data on your Mac, find lost files and even restore all of the software on their Mac. With just a one-click setup, Time Machine automatically keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on the Mac. In the event a file is lost, you can search back through time to find deleted files, applications, photos and other digital media and then instantly restore the file.
The MacBook Air also comes with the iLife '08 suite of applications that make it easy to live the digital life. Use iPhoto to share entire high-res photo albums with anyone who's got an email address. Record your own songs and podcasts with GarageBand. Break into indie filmmaking with iMovie and iDVD. Then take all the stuff you made on your Mac and share it on the Web in one click with iWeb.
Included Software
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard (includes Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools)
iLife '08 (includes iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, GarageBand)
What's in the Box
MacBook Air, 45W MagSafe Power Adapter, AC wall plug, power cord, cleaning/polishing cloth, install/restore DVDs, printed documentation
Customer Reviews:
If you don't use it, it is great
My rating is of two stars, and not one, because I think this is the most beautiful computer I have ever seen.
This computer is about design. If you like it and don't need heavy lifting from your computer that's fine, don't expect to watch too many Youtube videos either. It gets hot and then, while trying to cool down, it slows the CPU to a level were it's impossible to accomplish even trivial tasks.
Great Mac but wish the battery will last longer. 
The macbook air is light, beautiful, and it functions like a regular macbook. Only wish the battery can last longer. I had a macbook and when I close the lid it would put the mac to sleep and would not consume battery but the macbook air would. If i leave the macbook air sleep it will eat up all the battery in two days. If you don't mind battery life then macbook air would be a great product for you.
Moving on up on the MacBook Air 
I have decided an advisory review is a good idea since upgrading from the original MacBook Air to the second generation after a year of use in March. My upgrade was to the hard drive version, still running at 1.6 GHz, but it seems much faster. I had some problems with video on my original MacBook Air, though it was an adequate laptop in other ways. I was rarely able to watch Internet videos of more than three minutes without stuttering or freezing. In fact, I would often wait until I was using my MacBook Pro to access video or watch movies.
The most important improvement in the second generation MacBook Air is the Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics chip, which roars. I no longer have computer-related problems playing video on my MacBook Air. And, the chip qualifies the MacBook Air for Snow Leopard's graphics enhancements. The second most significant improvement is the change from an 80-GB hard drive to an 120-GB hard drive. It creates enough space for me to install a Boot Camp partition for Windows 7. (I haven't been able to bring myself to use Vista, so I am waiting.)
The advantages of this laptop remain constant. Since it weighs only three pounds, one can take it just about anywhere, barely aware it is in one's bag or tote. It can be used with all but the most memory intensive Apple and third-party applications. The multitouch trackpad, including three and four-finger gestures, is an innovation I miss even on my MacBook Pro, which has an earlier trackpad. And, in the era of chintzy netbooks, the MacBook Air is a fully capable computer that is lighter weight, the epitome of style, and reflects good taste.
I've purchased a Speck Products MacBook Air See Thru Hard Case (Clear) MBA-CLR-SEE for this MacBook Air, so that it does not develop the roughness on the edges from being zipped into computer bags and bumped against things my original MacBook Air did. The case also guards against the problem some owners have had with their hinges loosening. I recommend ordering the case at the same time so you can encase your MacBook Air in it from the beginning.
I had never heard of the 'lines on the screen' allegation until I saw a single review here at Amazon. MacBook Air monitors have been fine from the beginning. Perhaps some buyers need to get used to their first LED screens, which have become the norm on all Apple laptops.
I believe anyone upgrading to generation two, or, now, three, will be pleased with the way Apple is methodically improving the MacBook Air and lowering its prices.
flameout with the Genius Club 
Please enjoy the logic: I bought an Apple laptop with an extended warranty. Well, the good news, I needed it. The bad news--see below. My hard drive crashed, so I took it in to see what was up. "Luckily" the store genius at Apple--Kahala-Honolulu, replaced my hard drive. Fortunately, I backed up weekly.
However, when I went to re-install my Office software, the CD drive had stopped working. I brought it back, and a different genius told me that his feeling was that someone was pressing the side of the frame by where the CDs go in. He said, it was his call. Ok, so he used something to press open the CD opening, and then nothing was obstructing the opening. However, deep inside, where the CD components were, something was still preventing CDs--and thus, Office reinstall-- from going in.
He said, sorry. His call. I asked him if he saw the irony of the reason for my needing to re-install Word was the fact that the hard drive had crashed. He recommended that I buy an external CD drive. No thanks.
I'd rather not have to be confronted by so much genus in my lifetime.
The Air is awesome
Apple MacBook Air MB543LL/A 13.3 Inch Laptop (1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive)
This is a great product. I bought one of those cheap mini computers and was not at all impressed. It felt cheap. I took it back and bought an air. The air is just like my mac book pro but so much lighter. The fact that it doesn't have a disk player doesn't matter at all for me; I transfer stuff from the pro wirelessly. I love both the air and the pro, and they work perfectly together. I leave my pro at home (it is really more like a desk top that can be taken with me, if need be) and I take the air to the office and to conferences. I wouldn't trust the mini to be my only computer at the office or at a conference, but the air is really an ultra portable laptop. In fact, I would rather have an air than any full size pc laptop; I've just had too many die to trust them anymore. Sometimes you get what you pay for. While the price is high, I think there just isn't anything out there that is as solid as an apple. You have to work on one to realize the difference, but the difference is profound, in my opinion.
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