using his keynote address at the annual Macworld geekfest to wow the world
with the company%26rsquo;s latest must-have gadgets. Last year, he pulled an iPhone
out of his pocket. What would he do to top that this year? Tech bloggers and
writers around the world feverishly speculated what might be announced and
some of them even got it right.
Jobs walked on stage with a manila envelope and whipped out what looks set to
the business traveller laptop to be seen with this year. Except that it
might not get seen at all given how thin it is. At its thickest point, the Macbook
Air stands just 0.76 inches high; at its thinnest, it is 0.16 inches.
While the previous incarnations of the Macbook have been extremely desirable
for their looks, business travellers have sometimes shied away from them
because of their bulk. The lightest in the range weighs in at more than 2.27
kilos, whereas Windows-powered laptops with similar specs are considerably
slimmer, typically a kilo lighter. For a business traveller constrained by
the weight limit of hand luggage, especially in the current climate. The
Macbook Air, by contrast, comes in at 1.36 kilos %26ndash; lodging it firmly in the
realm of the lightweights.
Much of the weight loss is achieved through an Atkins-style avoidance of
certain things %26ndash; no optical drive, a handful of ports and a non-swappable
battery. Intel even redesigned its processor to cut down on size and weight.
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