For once the rumors are dead on. Just now Steve Jobs announced Apple’s new ultra-portable, ultra-thin, may be I should rephrase it, the absurdly thin Mac laptop the could fit inside an envelope, the MacBook Air.
So far from the photos I’m looking at on Apple’s website, the thing is stunning. It’s an engineering marvel that they manage to fit a full Mac OSX into the thin machine.
There is more, it’s not just your average MacBook shrunk. First of all you’ll notice the bigger then average trackpad size on MacBook Air. No, it’s not an illusion, because the machine is tiny that you think the trackpad looks bigger. There is a reason for the fair amount of trackpad size.
Apple had incorporated their multi-touch gesture, ala iPhone on the new MacBook Air. You can now pinch, rotate and do all the other fun two finger gesture that you can do on your iPhone or iPod Touch. All that on the trackpad.
Also, the other think you’ll notice is that MacBook Air has no CD/DVD drive. Not even an attachment. Could this be a trend Apple is setting? Remember, Apple is the one that remove the floppy drive from their machines.
Apple said in their sales copy that: -
MacBook Air has shed something you no longer need: the optical drive. That’s because MacBook Air is built for the wireless world. So instead of watching DVDs, you can rent movies wirelessly from the iTunes Store. And instead of backing up files to a stack of discs, you can back up files wirelessly using Apple’s new Time Capsule.
There will also a new feature called Remote Disc there you could access CD or DVD on other Mac as if it’s your local drive. I guess this is how MacBook Air will be writing to CD or DVD media.
This makes me wonder, how are you going to upgrade it’s OS? How do we install new OSX later on?
Also don’t forget to check out MyMacBUZZ, Malaysian Mac/Apple blog, in which I occasionally blog on together with the blogjunkie, David Wang and Justin Koh. I’m pretty sure they will have some info on the availability and pricing of MacBook Air in Malaysia soon.
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