MacWorld Dispatch VII--The BIG announcement

Posted by: Cliff Edwards on January 15

What’s “In the Air?”
Today, the company is introducing the MacBook Air. In a sentence, it’s the world’s thinnest notebook, beating the 3 pounds, 0.8 inches to 1.2 inch thickness of current gen thin and lights.
Jobs says they can beat all this: The MacBook Air will be 0.16 inches thick. The thickness part of the MacBook Air is still thinner than the Sony thin and lights, and will fit into an interoffice letter envelope. It will have a full-size keyboard and display, at 13.3 inches widescreen. The display is LED backlit, which saves power and is instant -on and bright. There’s an ambient light sensor on the keyboard to make it backlit.
Clearly, the company is taking its learnings from the touch-sensitive iPhone back to the Mac world. The large trackpad will have multi-touch gesture support to turn on all types of gestures, such as double-tap to move a window around. In a large photo, you can pan around with two fingers, or rotate. There’s even the patented pinch.
“I’m still stunned our engineering team could pull this off,” Jobs says. The hard drive goes to 1.8 inches with 80 GB standard and 64 solid state option (Flash memory)

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