MacBook Air Is The Handiest Sub-Notebook Around
Macbook Air
The MacBook Air is a sub notebook computer. There’s only one reason for having a small notebook and that reason is pure handiness. A lot of consumers have a need for an easy to carry office machine or an easy to carry games machine and the MacBook air – can do both.
The Macintosh company has introduced the MacBook Air as a niche computer that’s comparable to low fat yoghurt. It’s thinner and lighter than the full fat version, yet still has all the flavour you desire. Dimensionally speaking it’s slightly wider and longer than the MacBook. To be precise it’s 0.02 inches longer and wider but it’s also two pounds lighter and much, much slimmer.
MacBook Air Is Cool and Light
How is that for handy? The full flavour comes from the Intel core 2 duo processor and it’s 1.86GHz that comes as standard with the MacBook Air (or the top of the range 2.13GHz Intel). There are numerous ways to improve on this performance. Suffice to say the MacBook Air is middle of the road for speed when raced side by side with its competitor sub notebooks. For consumers more interested in speed than handiness, then the Macworld recommendation is for a small laptop. The 13-inch 2.53GHz MacBook Pro works wonders.
For sheer convenience and lightweight stylish ease the MacBook Air is ideal. It really is handy enough to go wherever the user goes, without becoming a drag. This small notebook looks fantastic both outside, and in. The actual dimensions are; height 0.4cm to 1.94cm, breadth 32.5cm, depth 22.7cm and – drum roll for dramatic effect here – 1.36 kg.
MacBook Air – The Feature Rich Alternative
The screen and keyboard technology is the same as for big brother MacBook Pro. The LED backlit screen is an eye-catching 33.5cm (diagonal) with dazzling full colour support. Standard is 1280 by 800 pixels. The keyboard is the same as the MacBook so while it’s a sub notebook it feels as big as full notebook. Even the thickest fingers won’t press two keys at once.
Macintosh battery technology has always been ahead of the field when it comes to staying on power, and the MacBook Air does it for five hours, making it one of the most convenient mobile work stations around. It also comes with the built in iSight camera and microphone. It has everything for the Mac user on the move. Of course there are always compromises when notebooks get smaller and what Apple has left out are functions that they believe are less used by the roaming consumer.
Users on the move will always be looking for Internet connectivity so the MacBook Air comes with Airport Extreme Wi-Fi networking and Bluetooth 2.1.
There isn’t an optical drive so watching a DVD on the MacBook Air isn’t an option. Theres only 1 USB port, 1 headphone jack point, and no Kensington cable point. The apple reason being that connectivity isn’t something that people on the move can use. The battery on the MacBook Air is also integrated so deeply into the machine that to all intents and purposes it is immoveable.