Apple Mac Book Air Laptop PC
June 22, 2008
Apple designs ultra slim notebooks, which is the fusion of mobility and performance. MacBook Air is ultra thin as your index finger and Apple call it ‘world’s thinnest notebook’ with the height of 40mm and it still has 13inch built in widescreen, full sized keyboard and touch sensitive mouse pad, which allows you to use it without consuming much space. This 1.36kg weigh laptop comes in stylish white and silver colour.
Apple MacBook Air 13" 1.8GHz notebook offers built-in devices Stereo speakers, wireless LAN aerial, and Bluetooth aerial. The performance of MacBook Air is impressive with Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2GB RAM. This is the latest processor used in all notebooks, which yield better results. The 2GB memory offers much speed to the notebook and the RAM type used in this mac laptop is DDRII SDRAM. The hard disk capacity of the MacBook Air is 64GB with data bus speed of 800MHz, providing enormous space to store the data, videos and pictures. The multi core technology used in this smallest laptop is dual core technology. Its 13 inch widescreen LED display delivers 1280×800 resolution, producing clear and sharp picture.
Graphics card, also called video adapters are plugged into the computer to give display capabilities. The video adapter deployed in this laptop computer is Intel GMA X3100 Graphics Processor with 144MB of RAM shared with main memory.
The interfaces in this notebook computer are given below:
- 1 x display /video
- 1 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
- 2 USB
- 1 x microphone input
- 1 x headphone output
- 1 x Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T.
The 2 USB ports available in MacBook Air allow you to connect to the external devices. MacBook Air features remote disc function. Since this Laptop lacks optical drives, it facilitates to use optical drives of remotely connected devices as long as they are in same network. It also provide external USB DVD burner to cope up with this limitation. It has one DVI and a single video port to connect to display device.
The type of battery Mac Book Air utilises is Lithium Polymer and has the run time of 5 hours. The mouse used is touch sensitive track pad. If you are new to laptop, then you will find a little bit difficult to cope with this new type. But once you become familiar, then you will come to know that this is the best one. Zoom, rotate, and scroll with a pinch of the multi-touch track pad. This gesture-based input is successful on iPhone touch and has been adapted for the MacBook Air.
To be truly portable many laptop users utilises Intel’s mobile processor technology that allows you to use wireless networking . There are three wireless standards, of which the latest - 802.11g - is the most useful providing both a fast and stable connection and backwards compatibility with the older 802.11b standard. 802.11g is the technology provided in this PC. An alternative option to the built-in solution is the addition of a wireless LAN card in your PC card slot to connect via hotspots.
Apple MacBook Air 13″ 1.8GHz mac laptop PC offers V92 Modem with a data transfer rate of 56Kbps and it support high bandwidth. Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard is the world’s most advanced operating system offering hundreds of breakthrough innovations and applications, including Cover Flow, Quick Look, Stacks, Time Machine, Mail, iChat, Safari, and Spaces. The applications with this OS are creating photo projects, making movies, designing DVDs, building websites and composing music.
The utility kit of MacBook Air incorporates protection plan, carry case, security device, Hard Disk, hubs and routers, anti-virus software, keyboard and mouse. Apple supports 1 full year warranty for MacBook Air mechanically.
| General Features | |
|---|---|
| Brand | Apple |
| Model | Apple MacBook Air |
| Colours available | White, Silver |
| Weight in kg | 1.36kg |
| Dimensions (Width, length, height) | (H x W x D) 40×325x227mm |
| Processor Type | Intel Core 2 Duo |
| Hard disk capacity | 64GB |
| RAM capacity | 2GB |
| RAM type | DDR II SDRAM |
| Speed | 800MHz |
| Screen size | 13" |
| Screen resolution | 1280×800 Pixels |
| Graphics card | Intel GMA X3100 Graphics Processor |
| USB ports | 2 ports |
| Optical drives | N/A |
| Battery capacity | 5 hours |
| Mouse pad | Touch sensitive track pad |
| Wireless technology | 802.11g |
| Modem | V92 Modem |
| Operating System | Mac OS X Vs 10.5 Leopard |
| Features | |
| S-Video card | Yes |
| Wi-Fi capability | Yes |
| CD/ DVD Read/write | Yes |
| Firewire port | Yes |
| Infra red port | No |
| Accessories | |
| Mouse | Yes |
| Memory sticks | Yes |
| Carrying case | Yes |
| Anti-virus software | Yes |
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