Apple is known for pushing boundaries. Sometimes it's a cutting-edge industrial design, sometimes it's new technology and sometimes a new standard. When the MacBook Air was originally introduced, it was all three. Growing less unique with the netbook craze, Apple was forced to rethink thin. Did they succeed?
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo SU9400 @ 1.4GHz (3MB cache)
- Display: 11.6-inch TN panel
- Resolution: 1366x768
- Memory: 2GB not accessible
- Hard drive: 64GB solid state drive
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M with 256MB of shared system memory
- Optical drive: none
- Networking: none
- Wireless networking: 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
- Built-in iSight webcam, integrated microphone
- Dimensions: 11.8 x 7.56 x 0.68-0.11 inches (WxDxH)
- Weight: 2.3 lbs
- Warranty: One year limited parts and labor, 90 days free phone support
The original MacBook Air remains one of the thinnest notebooks ever created; like the current iteration, it was designed along a tapered-wedge form factor. Although it wasn't necessarily the thinnest laptop ever created (hey there, Mitsubishi Pedion!), the first-generation MacBook Air brought a number of new features to the table.
It was the first of Apple's notebooks to be designed using the now-famous unibody engineering technique, which essentially carves the computer's case from a single block of cast aluminum. The CPU was a Core 2 Duo designed to take up only 40% of the room of its more traditional counterparts.
Apple finally realized that with the latest refresh of the MacBook Air lineup, something had to change. The 11.6-inch MacBook Air is Apple's smallest laptop ever, harking back to the days of their original 12-inch ultraportable offerings. Both the 11.6- and 13-inch Airs share the same design trend and some of the same dimensions. Both are 0.68 inches in the back, tapering down to a scant eleven-hundredths of an inch at the front.
Much of the notebook's exterior is notable only for its emptiness. The front of the Air has a notch cut out of the bottom lip to provide a spot for opening the screen. Like most modern MacBooks, the screen easily lifts up with a single finger.
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