Last week Apple introduced the new MacBook Air the world’s thinnest notebook. The world’s thinnest means 4 mm in the front to 19 mm in the back. I think thats just awesome! That’s so thin it’s unimaginable. But this size has its costs. The MacBook Air has no FireWire (400 nor 800), no Ethernet and no Audio-In. It has just one USB 2.0 Port, a micro-DVI Port and a headphone jacket. Now how can you connect it to the internet? The product name told it already. You connect it over the Air with 802.11n.

Based on the size it hasn’t a CD/DVD-ROM drive built in. You can just plug in (on that single USB port you have) an external one. I think thats a good solution in combination with that “Remote Disc” feature. Because last time I used the CD/DVD-ROM drive of my MacBook Pro was when i installed Mac OS 10.5.

Finally the price: The standard Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz model with 80GB 1.8″ HDD and 2GB RAM costs $1799. The 1.8GHz C2D costs $300 extra. For a SSD you will pay $999 extra. That makes it a really expensive notebook.

Conclusion
If you have the money for it and it’s not your only computer its a glorious ultra portable mac!

Rating: 8 out of 10 stars (-1 for the price and -1 for the missing ports)

Now watch the ad below or have a look at apple’s homepage