The Stevenote address is going on now. You can read along here.. Apple’s got a new ultrthin laptop. The photos are on the right.
Look at that thing! You can if it in a freaking envelope! I would probably break the fool thing in minutes.
Oddly I do not want one, but still you have to be impressed with the technology.
No optical drive though, and let’s see how sturdy the drop down USB port ends up being. But it is crazy small.
But I do love Stevenote day. I might take advantage of iTunes movie rentals sometime.
It’s a lot easier to see it on the Apple website.
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It’s a good thing I’m broke, or I’d buy one. Don’t even need it, but it’s SO cool!
It looks like the Motorola Razr of laptops. I’d probably break it in half within 2 seconds, considering how light and thin it is. Yipes!
I could almost hear the crowd cheering from here - my building was ringed by the iFaithful this morning waiting to get into Moscone Center.
3/4 inch thick? A whole laptop thinner than my thumb? Yeah, I’d also be afraid of breaking it.
Let’s see if the on-demand movie rentals (in HD and 5.1 surround, yay!) revitalize the AppleTV. Sounds like all of the major studios are on board with it. This may be the thing that finally makes me throw away my Blockbuster card.
That’s actually encouraging to me - Despite my concerted efforts to destroy my Razr over the past three years, including throwing it through the laundry, it’s still working, albeit with some water stains in the display.
Haha I went to the Apple site from ShibbOleth’s link, and AdBlock blocked the Flash animation that was the entire “Thinnovation” picture. Just the “MacBook Air” name and menu, the black background, and then the “Introducing MacBook Air - The world’s thinnest notebook” text.
Meaning, I went to the product page for MacBook Air, and there was nothing but a big blank space surrounded by text indicating that I am looking at the MacBook Air. I thought to myself “wow, that thing is so thin it’s INVISIBLE!” 
$3100?!?! Yikes.
It’s cool, but what’s the point of a laptop being that thin? Is being that thin going to help anyone do anything any faster or better? Where are the batteries?
It’s pretty damn cool, but it looks like they made a lot of sacrifices to make it that thin. No optical drive, only one USB port, no ethernet, no modem, no mic line, only a mini-DVI out. A lot of people don’t need any of that stuff, but you gotta wonder if that 1/4" thickness and 1 pound of weight is worth it.
Think of it like women’s shoes or something.
That’s for the more expensive version. The cheaper one is only $1,800. And the $3,100 version includes a 64GB solid-state hard drive (presumably some sort of flash memory?). I’m wondering how well it works with that.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. I mean what difference does it make to have it that thin. I can understand light, although laptops these days aren’t exactly dumbells. But the thin doesn’t do anything for me.
I bet I’d hate the keyboard. I type badly enough as it is with keys that are nice, big and clicky. I type worse on regular laptops. On that thinnovative thing Id tyo[ lik I jad hooves fr hands.
It’s sexy though.
I probably shouldn’t judge before I see it in person, but I can just imagine how horrible the keyboard would feel - they must have sacrificed key travel to make the whole thing so thin.
Also the screen resolution is not very good - only 1280x800? My ThinkPad X61 Tablet has a 1400x1050 screen, even though it’s only 12".
if it’s anything like their other laptops, the keyboard is nice! This is a full size keyboard. Also, the Remote Disc feature is pretty cool… I can see not needing an optical drive with that kind of connectivity.
Yes, I think it’s flash memory. It has lower power consumption than a hard drive. But a potentially bigger advantage is the very fast seek time compared to hard drives. So much so that Vista has the option of using a flash memory card as hard drive cache (“ReadyBoost”) - even though it has lower data transfer rate, the faster seek time more than makes up for it.
It’s still very expensive though…
I’m guessing the keyboard will be very similar to what they’re shipping with the aluminum-cased desktop iMacs - those things are anorexically thin, and I’ve not heard riots in the streets about them.
Don’t type so hard, you will break it.