The MacBook Air turns four years old today (TUAW)
Four years ago today, Apple introduced the MacBook Air, then the world’s
thinnest notebook. It was Steve Jobs’s last Macworld appearance and the next
to last Macworld keynote for Apple.
The presentation is a classic Steve Jobs performance. The keynote has his
usual smooth delivery, a genuine enthusiasm for the product, and a healthy
dose of showmanship. Watch the clip below and tell me you don’t get goose
bumps when you watch Jobs pull the first generation Air out of a manila
envelope. He does a fantastic job of presenting the deficiencies in
competitor’s products (small keyboard, small display, underpowered) and how
the MacBook Air is a step up.
The first MacBook Air was a piece of engineering excellence. It was smaller
but more powerful than its competitors. It started off with an 80 GB 1.8-inch
HDD drive (optional SSD), a compact motherboard with a custom 1.6 GHz Intel
Core 2 Duo processor and GMA X3100 graphics processor. It also had a 13.3-inch
LED-backlit glossy display, 2 GB of DDR2 SDRAM, full backlit keyboard, 802.11n
WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, USB port, and Micro-DVI port. It was thin, measuring
only 12.8 in (325 mm) wide × 8.94 in …
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