What makes the
Air so thin?
MacBook
Air is nearly as thin as your index finger. Practically every detail
that could be streamlined has been. Yet it still has a 13.3-inch
widescreen LED display, full-size keyboard, and large multi-touch
trackpad. It’s incomparably portable without the usual ultraportable
screen and keyboard compromises.
So many innovations.
So little space.
The
incredible thinness of MacBook Air is the result of numerous size- and
weight-shaving innovations. From a slimmer hard drive to strategically
hidden I/O ports to a lower-profile battery, everything has been
considered and reconsidered with thinness in mind.
Built for the
wireless world.
MacBook Air is
designed and engineered to take full advantage of the wireless world. A
world in which 802.11n Wi-Fi is now so fast and so available, people
are truly living untethered — buying and renting movies online,
downloading software, and sharing and storing files on the web.
The brilliance of multi-touch.
MacBook Air includes
an oversize trackpad with multi-touch technology. You can pinch, swipe,
or rotate to zoom in on text, advance through a photo album, or adjust
an image. This gesture-based input so successful on iPhone and iPod
touch now comes to MacBook
A smart LED display.
The backlit LED display allows
for an even thinner build. It provides instant full-screen brightness
the moment you open MacBook Air. The mercury- and arsenic-free display
is also more power efficient, which translates to longer battery life.
Thin is in the details.
The
innovative now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t port hatch flips down to
reveal (and closes to hide) all the ports you really need: a USB 2.0
port, a headphone jack, and a micro-DVI port that supports DVI, VGA,
composite, and S-video output. Even the MagSafe power connection has
been reconsidered and slimmed to fit MacBook Air.
