More rumors of the MacBook Air are floating around, so here is what they say. According to Wired, the new laptop is supposed to be really thin, and shaped like a teardrop. Which means it is thicker at the top and thinner at the bottom, near the keyboard. The new laptop is supposed to use Apple's new scheme with aluminum & glass; silver on black. The new MacBook is expected to be without a CD/DVD drive, and possibly use solid-state storage. Think it's real? Tell us here.




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Yep, I think this is the one.


Those pics are funny... that trackpad is tiny.

That looks pretty {censored} pimp. Although impossibly thin. Look at the bottom of the first picture. My nephew's finger is thicker than that. (He's 5).

And I still think MacBook Air is a {CENSORED} STUPID ASS name.

Mac{CENSORED} cool

In(censored)credible!

I didn't even notice the trackpad

What's with all the swearing around here.
This is a family site remember


That macbook looks freakishly thin. But where's the power button?

it turns on by air

So to do anything that requires a CD/DVD drive, you now need to purchase a seperate, external drive?

No thanks, probably the worst mistake they could have done. I know I hardly use my own drives, but they are there for a reason still...

The bottom pic looks fake to me. The trackpad is not proportioned to the screen at all, and that actually looks like a membrane keyboard (they likes of which you'd expect on a $25 See'n'spell, not a real computer). I also don't see any seams for the hinges on the display.


While MacBook Air might be a real product, I don't think that bottom picture is of a MacBook Air (if it exists).

they're photoshopped, read the full story.

If it's that thin, who would actually dock it to use a USB port anyways?

Anyways thats one s#%y laptop!!

Hm- I like how it says this story is posted on the 15th.
And macworld is on the 15th.
And this story with be proved a retarded last minute attempt on the 15th.

And seriously- "MacBookAir"???

-Guys at Apple-

"Hey! let's name this uh MacBook-..."

2nd guy- "Dude- guess what I'm breathing right now..."

"Air!....."

Why is there still the eject button...

Set your timezone, I live in California, which is GMT-8. So it's still a while off

My timezone is fine- PST 10:13 (California too)

but if you look on the home page of this website it says "Posted by Numberzz- January 15..."

: )
just an observation...

so horrifyingly wrong it makes me cry...

jk

but seriously:

Not the case for everyone, it's time zone dependant:

Ah, where has the trust gone in the h4ck|n community?

I say fake. At least for the name MacBok Air. That could've been anyone with a customized Hackintosh.
Still, I the the ultra-thin notebook thing is VERY real. I just think it would be named Nano; since that name has become somewhat of a brand by itself.

FAKE FAKE FAKE.....Compare the two photos,,
1. The top photo has the keyboard indented - flat.
2. The bottom photo shows the keys raised - so if the lid was closed it would press on all the keys.
The top view and side view dont match.

Remember that those are photoshopped images, the source couldn't leak any pictures of it, as wired said...

http://infomars.fr/die/autre/MBA%20(2).gif

from http://www.macbookairblog.com/post/23698665

wow - that laptop looks almost like they've taken the Al keyboards and added a monitor
not my cup of tea, but i can see this being useful for uni lectures and the likes, or for the typical mac fanboy attitude of showing off

@nighty, that looks kinda real, it also seems there is gonna be a SHD 40" Cinema Display coming

Def could be true, check the Apple site http://www.apple.com/
It says: There is something new in the air

Is true, and I got the prize for first topic about it on the forum

^it's real. it was just revealed in the keynote

This is absolutely pathetic. If I wanted a 13" machine, I'd buy a MacBook. It would be cheaper, it would have a bigger HDD, it would have a built in optical drive, and as far as I can see, the battery life wouldn't be much different. Worse, this machine only looks thin because of the tapered edges. I don't care if it's the thinnest notebook in the world, it's only 1/4 inch thinner than a macbook, which frankly, is intangible.

Where's the REAL ultra-portable, Apple?

Edit: And more to the point, why does my 12" PB feel so much smaller than my gf's MacBook...? They only had to shave an inch off the screen to make it a thousand times more attractive to me (although I'm happy with the keyboard and screen resolution down to 10", frankly)

The backlit keyboard looks stunning. They should add that to the MBP too.

Err. The MacBook Pro already has a backlit keyboard. In fact, the pro notebooks have had backlit keyboards since the first 17" PowerBook G4 in 2003, and later the aluminium 15" in the same year. And if you mean the design of the keyboard, no thanks. I'd rather they stuck to the keyboard you can actually type with on the pro machines.

black keyboard, no so nice

i want a white keyboard

The ad is really cool. It also comes with micro-DVI, and don't under estimate Remote Disk, it will change how all laptops are looked at in the future. It's a great idea whos time has come.

Insanely great. Insanely overpriced.
I bet they'll cut prices within three months, just like iPhone.
Sherry Haibara

I really don't see how it's insanely great. It's just a MacBook with less features that they somehow feel charging more for is justified. It's no more portable than the hardly gigantic MacBook IMHO.

Why doesn't anybody make a decent ultraportable any more. What happened to the Toshiba Librettos and the Sony Picturebooks of the world? Sure, the Eee PC is nicely priced, but I'd like more modern hardware, a chassis with some though put into it, and a bigger storage device, and I don't mind paying for it, although Sony prices are well over the top for hardware like this.

WOW! Ill spend 1600EUR on the MacBook Air because its ad is so cool!! Maybe i can try it my own at home!! COOOOOL!!

Rofl....

Personally i think its way too much for what it is... Macbooks are better specs, only thicker and cheaper!
Its not GREAT design, but not ugly too... I prefered the keyboard to have same color like the rest of the casing...

+1 It's an odd choice imo.

I will prefer an "Aluminium" keyboard as MacBook Pros but black is not that bad.

Yes, I'd also like to see a white keyboard.

MacBook Air

Cons:
battery internal (needs replacing at shop)
mono stero
one usb slot and no firewire.... wtf?
cost is almost same as MBP
has no optical drive
hard drive - sloooooooooooooow

Pro's:
umm..... it's very slim

for that much money you might as well get a mac book pro, your basically paying more for something which has less

I'd add to the Cons:

- 4200 Pata hard drive
- 2gb of memory not expandable

$1800 for a 1.6ghz C2D and an ipod hdd

next please.

Im struggling to find the innovation besides the gimmicky trackpad, rotate photos in Preview?? HOLY @#$%!! It is far from the first paper thin full sized notebook, notebooks have been that thin for years (give or take a mm or 2), take out the HDD and disc drive then the only thing keeping it thick is the case.

Yeah, this is truly one of apple's dullest moments. They took such a grand opportunity to capture the sub-$1000 market and failed miserably.

Sorry, apple, you lose. You priced this horribly.

Apple probably had a handful of other potential releases (i.e. transcript) but all of which failed).
At least I hope they did cuz macworld was a total disaster at best. I still think the name "MacBook Air" is retarded.
And so is the price.

Any SPECS of the Wireless Card, BRAND, Chipset?

Tell me about it. I was really looking for a cheaper notebook. Why couldn't they just make a Pentium dual-core laptop and integrated graphics for students like me. I really wanted something for $600. Oh well, I guess a used mac will do. And about the air, It stinks. Very low specs, and extremely high priced. I don't care about 0.78 inch thick laptop. I can't play a movie on it the road. And 80GB max... . I care about price and performance. Besides the current mac book is already small.

I'd guess it will either be a BCM4321 or an AR5008X, like all other Draft-N cards Apple have used. However, it may well be soldered onto the motehrboard (ala Eee PC) rather than a removable card like the others. Why?

- Wikipedia.

Totally agree with you!!

Overpriced+no FW+non-detachable battery+1.8" PATA HDD+not able to put more memory=forget it.
If I really wanna go for something ultra portable, why not an UMPC?
Well, Mr. Jobs, MBA (MacBook Air) is really for MBA (Master of Business and Administration), but not for practical user.

Ha, the only problem with going after the MBA's with the MBA is that Apple probably has less than a 1% share of the global business market...which means they should be able to sell these to journalists (maybe - a tablet would be more logical) and ad creatives (though it may not be fast enough/have enough memory)...