From: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss
Apple today introduced the world�s thinnest notebook: MacBook Air. It measures an unprecedented 0.16 inches at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. In addition to a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, MacBook Air offers a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support, letting users pinch, rotate and swipe. The new notebook is powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, and it includes as standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, and the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1. Starting at just $1,799, MacBook Air begins shipping in two weeks.
Apple today introduced the world�s thinnest notebook: MacBook Air. It measures an unprecedented 0.16 inches at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. In addition to a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, MacBook Air offers a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support, letting users pinch, rotate and swipe. The new notebook is powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, and it includes as standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, and the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1. Starting at just $1,799, MacBook Air begins shipping in two weeks.
While mass-market solid state drives are long overdue, the additional $1,300 they add to the price tag on the MacBook Air is ridiculous. I'm almost positive I've seen them for half that. Of course, the Apple logo adds 100% to the cost of any item.
The solid state drive is 999, and the 1.8ghz adds 300 dollars. That is some crazy pricing. Not to mention it doesn't even inlcude an ethernet port. I know wireless is the big craze but it still doesn't give you the performance of wire unless you are like two feet away from your wireless router.
So you could spend 3k plus on an Apple Air, or get two Dell latitude laptops with 2x the processor, 2x the ram, a bigger screen and still only 3lbs and less than an inch thick. Of course it would say Dell on it and not Apple.
I wonder if there would be a demand for laptop covers with an Apple-like logo on them...
Only if they lit up. :)
Does apple have to pay Mike the Air Jordan any royalties?
The sad part is, no one really wants to pay those prices for an Apple PC. All they really want is Mac OS X. Apple could release the OS so it worked on ALL x86/x64 architecture, but then who would buy Apple's over-priced hardware? Apple needs to get out of the PC hardware business.
I can see people buying the iPhone and iPod for the form factor, but there's nothing all that revolutionary about Apple's notebooks or desktops. Essentially people are paying as much as $1,000 more than they should for a PC just so they can run Mac OS X.
I like Mac OS X a lot, but not enough to pay that sort of premium.
If Microsoft wanted to throw a wrench in Apple's gears, they could just make the next version of Windows an X-Windows shell for a -nix based OS. :) Hell, that's all Apple did when they went from MacOS to Mac OS X: Use an existing mature and secure kernel and focus proprietary development on GUI and eye candy.