{"id":4413,"date":"2008-01-15T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/a-thin-macbook.html"},"modified":"2008-01-15T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T14:06:00","slug":"a-thin-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/a-thin-macbook.html","title":{"rendered":"A thin MacBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080115\/ap_on_hi_te\/apple_macworld;_ylt=ApA071T_hxX9DIYSkgetg8Os0NUE\">Ooooh<\/a>! It&#8217;s nice. Five hour battery, fits in a manilla envelope, 13.3 inch screen, full size keyboard and only $1799!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took the wraps off a super-slim new laptop Tuesday, unveiling a personal computer less than an inch thick that turns on the moment it&#8217;s opened.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nAlways a showman, Jobs unwound the string on a standard-sized manila office envelope and slid out the ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook computer to coos and peals of laughter from fans at the conference.<br \/>\nAt its beefiest, the new computer is .76 inches thick; at its thinnest, it&#8217;s .16 inches, he said. It comes standard with an 80-gigabyte hard drive, with the option of a 64GB flash-based solid state drive as an upgrade.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThe new laptop, which has a 13.3-inch screen and full-sized laptop keyboard, will cost $1,799 when it goes on sale in two weeks, though Apple&#8217;s Web site already has been updated to reflect Tuesday&#8217;s announcements. The price is competitive with other laptops in its market segment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can see some pictures and liveblogging of the Steve Jobs presentation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/01\/15\/live-from-macworld-2008-steve-jobs-keynote\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nUpdated: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookair\/guidedtour\/\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> the video.  All I can say is &#8220;ooohhhhhh!&#8221; It looks like they&#8217;re using some of the capability of the iPhone with their trackpad (pinching, swiping, etc.) The reason that it&#8217;s so thin is that it doesn&#8217;t come with an optical disk drive, so you can&#8217;t watch DVD&#8217;s on it.  You can buy a separate disk that connects with a USB cable. Also, it ships with a disk that contains the software to allow the MacBook Air to use the drive of a remote PC or Mac so that software can be installed on it. Pretty cool!<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/15\/audio-rush-limbaugh-asks-newt-gingrich-if-the-reagan-revolution-is-dead\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooooh! It&#8217;s nice. Five hour battery, fits in a manilla envelope, 13.3 inch screen, full size keyboard and only $1799! Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took the wraps off a super-slim new laptop Tuesday, unveiling a personal computer less than an inch thick that turns on the moment it&#8217;s opened. 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