This year Jan, Apple launched the lightest notebook ever The MacBook Air (MBA). At the most recent IT show in Singapore, it is still the lightest around tipping the scale at 1.36kgOne of my female colleague bought one and I have the honor to give this beauty a spin and share some insights to this notebook. For one, it is indeed very light and sexy.
Guess white explodes pure and with a dash of silver, it tops up the classy casing. Of course the many other components also needs to be good.
This is a basic model, retailing at around S$2,699 (estimated). An Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6Ghz processor provides the processing power with 2x1GB DDR2-667 Ram provides the ability to load more programs on startup. 80GB SATA hard disk for storage while the Airport 802.11N (draft) wireless adapter provides the only form of network interface. This is the first flaw of this machine, Apple thinks that the Ethernet cable is no longer in favor. Guess the opposite is true. Most network especially corporate is still very much wired with cables laying around.
The keyboard is well spaced and despite having large fingers, I have little problem with typing away happily on the neo office (a spinoff openoffice version). A lack of built-in optical drive may be disadvantage for some but Apple provides the DVD-RW multi-drive external connected via the only USB port available.
The power adapter is another thing to scream on. It slips into place using magnet at the left side of the notebook. This is the first time I even seen it and looks cool. The hole we see at the top of the screen is the built-in web cam. The operating system (OS) installed is the OS X 10.5 aka leopard. For those of us who uses the other cool 'toy' the iphone, they share the same OS and thus able to finger expand and contract on the sensitive touch pad
Promise to share more on the OS once I spend more time with it.
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