Apple finally announces the world's thinnest new notebook "MacBook Air"



The thickness is just 0.16 inches to 0.76 inches (4 millimeters to 1.94 centimeters) with a deep thinness. The width is 32.5 cm, the depth is 22.7 cm, the weight is 1.36 kg.

OptionallySelection of rumor street SSD in November last year. It is equipped with a 13.3-inch display, with LED backlight (resolution is 1280 × 800), and an iSight camera built-in. It also has a solid state trackpad for multi-touch operation and supports 2 finger scroll, pinch, rotate, swipe, tap, double tap and drag functions.

Specification details and prices etc are from the following.
This is the body



Thin enough to fit in the envelope


Full-size keyboard with backlight installed. Also equipped with ambient light sensor with keyboard flash and automatic brightness adjustment function.


Besides, since it adopts the multi-touch trackpad, it is possible to make photograph turning etc. comfortably.


The hard disk is 1.8 inches and 80 GB. Optional 64 GB SSD can be selected, the price is high but it will be high speed.



CPU can select Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz, optional 1.8 GHz. This Core 2 Duo is about 60% smaller than the conventional one, which seems to be because Apple asked Intel. According to Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel who appeared in the venue, it was said that it was about the size of a coin.


Wireless LAN can be IEEE 802.11a / b / g in 802.11n (there is no wired LAN port, purchase of Apple USB Ethernet adapter is required separately). Furthermore, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR is installed as standard. One USB 2.0 port. Although no optical drive is built in, there is an optional USB external drive with $ 99 SuperDrive (8x speed). The duration of the battery is about 5 hours. Memory defaults to 2 GB.


And the price you care about is 1799 dollars abroad (about 197,000 yen), why in Japan from 229,800 yen. It is scheduled to start reservation from today and shipment will be two weeks later. In addition, the official Apple website of Japan has already been updated.

Apple - MacBook Air
http://www.apple.com/jp/macbookair/

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