The thinnest Mac ever made - the MacBook Air
The MacBook Air was introduced in January 2008 and since then it has been revised two times while also getting much needed price cuts and speed improvement along the way. It is now beginning to be a little bit more affordable ...
To make it so thin some features had to be left out, such as the CD / DVD drive. Ethernet port, line-in, card slot. The battery is not easily user replaceable and the memory is soldered to the mainboard. If you ever need to use a CD or DVD while re-installing Mac OS X for example Apple have released an external DVD drive you can plug in to the USB port when you need it. OR if you have another Mac or PC Apple have made software which will enable your MacBook Air to use that drive over the network. Even if that drive is currently on a Windows PC for example.
The ports you get is a Mini Display Port, headphone jack and one USB port. And of course the Magsafe power connector.
Now Cheaper
With the recent price cuts and speed bumps this computer begins to be interesting. In my opinion the computer have been way too overpriced before so these price cuts are a warm welcome.
The Specs
The cheapest Air model is sold with a 1.86GHz processor with the 1066MHz frontside bus. 2GB of RAM, GeForce 9400 graphics and a 120GB SATA hard drive.
The other model now ships with a 2.13GHz processor with 1066MHz frontside bus. 2GB of RAM, GeForce 9400 graphics and a 128GB solid-state drive.
Still no real Netbook
The screen size is still 13 - Inch, so you really have to ask yourself if you are willing to pay more to get a thinner and slower machine, but with the same screen size as the Smallest MacBook Pro, or the White MacBook.
We all want Apple to make a netbook, but Apple have said they do not know how to make something that small that wouldn't be a bad product. We just have to wait and see, I think apple have to release something smaller, they should really get into that market.
Better candidate for gaming
The latest update introduced the GeForce 9400 graphics card, and this makes the computer able to play some games. Not the newest most graphic intensive games but still - some of them will work a lot better with this updated version.