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Yesterday at Macworld, Apple introduced the MacBook Air. I just had a few looks at the images on the Macworld site and I was blown away at the size of this notebook.
It weighs about 3 pounds, and sports a thickness of 0.16-0.76 inches. It’s 12.8 inches wide and 8.95 inches deep. The MacBook Air features a 1.8-inch hard disk drive with 80GB of storage capacity standard. The laptop is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo chip running at 1.6GHz, with 1.8GHz available as an option. The chip operates with 4MB of on-chip shared L2 cache running at full processor speed, and uses an 800MHz frontside bus. 2GB of 667MH DDR2 SDRAM is also included.
I thought it would be interesting to compare the MacBook Air with other mainstream notebooks from Dell, Toshiba, Acer and HP.
Dell XPS M1330
Weight: Starting at 3.97
Width: 31.8cm
Height: 2.21cm – 3.38cm
Depth: 23.8cm
Toshiba Techra
Depth 11.1 in
Height 1.4 in
Weight 5.3 lbs
Width 13.2 in
HP Pavilion dv2700t
Dimensions: 13.15 (L) x 9.33 (W) x 1.02 (min H)/1.54 (max H)
Weight 5.29lbs
Acer Ferrari 1100
Dimensions & Weight
11.9″ (304.0mm) W x 8.9″ (228.0mm) D x 1.3″ (34.0mm) H
4.3 lb. (1.95kg)
Toshiba Answers with R500
Light is the way to go. There have been other thin laptops before, for instance from Zepto. Apple’s laptops have been too big and chunky for too long. If anything they’ve been lagging. But this one I want.
the acer aspire one is even better! Its the best netbook available !