The thinnest Mac ever made - MacBook Air

The MacBook Air was introduced in January 2008 and since then it has been revised a few times. Today it is available in an 11.6 Inch and 13.3 Inch model. The price is also slashed making it more affordable than ever.

To make it so thin some features had to be left out, such as the CD / DVD drive. Ethernet port, line-in, SD card slot (from the 11 Inch. The 13 Inch have SD card slot). The battery is not user replaceable and the memory is soldered to the logic board. If you ever need to use a CD or DVD while re-installing Mac OS X 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 free software which will enable your MacBook Air to use that drive over the network. Even if that drive is currently on a Windows PC.

The ports you get is a Mini Display Port, headphone jack and two 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.

SSD

There is no option now, this computer now comes with SSD drives as default. Solid State Drive (SSD) is an harddrive without any moving parts, its a bunch of memory chips that can store information even when the computer is turned off. It is also a lot faster compared to standard rotating disk drives. It also makes the computer feel a lot faster because it reads from the disk much faster compared to other disk drives.

Memory (RAM)

The memory is soldered onto the logic board. It is not possible to upgrade the memory later on yourself. If so you need to replace the entire logic board and thats expensive! I would max out the RAM if I was going to buy one of these.

Casual Gaming Is Possible!

The latest update introduced better 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. Check out the link to videos below, it will show you how this notebook performs while playing CoD: Modern Warfare 2!