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'font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Michael Tan

Apple Computers is a company that espouses innovation; they are one of the leading innovators of electronic technology. The Macbook Air is one of their latest innovations. This laptop computer is now tagged as the world’s thinnest laptop; it can even fit in a manila envelope. The Macbook Air was launched January of 2008 in the Mac World Conference and Expo.

This 0.16-inch thin notebook computer by Apple is so sleek that it can actually fit a manila envelope. Though lightweight in size, the Macbook Air is designed with a full sized keyboard and a 13.3-inch display screen with LED backlit and built in iSight. It is designed with a large trackpad that provides quick and easy touch technology.

Just like another Apple product, the iPhone, the Macbook Air comes with features such as panning around the screen, rotating the image, moving different windows, and flicking to zoom. All this can be done with just a few taps, flicks, and clicks on the trackpad.

As for its memory, the Macbook Air utilizes the same 1.8-inch 80GB drive used in iPod classic. For additional memory, users can make use of a 64GB SSD for their Macbook Air.

Ultimate portability was the main goal when Apple designed the Macbook Air. A very lightweight laptop that you can tag along anywhere you want.

There are also some issues and limitations that the Macbook Air has. Because it is quite small in size and in space, the laptop does not have a built-in drive for media. Due to this, users must use an external USB to be able to use or access other computer’s optical drive. This is just one of the features of a typical laptop that the Macbook Air does not offer.

Apple positioned the Macbook Air to be an upgrade to the regular Macbook. But the downside of this is that some other features of the Macbook have been taken out. The Macbook Air does not have ethernet port, security slot, cardbus slot, express card slot and FireWire port. And it only has one USB port.

If you are a user who is always on the go or is always traveling, then the Macbook Air is the most ideal laptop for you. To be able to purchase your own Macbook air, you can visit an Apple store near you or go to any Apple retail stores in your area. You can also go online to order a Macbook Air at Apple’s official site. This ensures a safe money transaction, and all you need to do is to weight comfortable in your own home to await that sleek and portable Macbook Air that you have always wanted.

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