Apple Announces New MacBook Air, World's Thinnest Laptop

The solid state hard drive is almost the best part. Looks like it might be small enough to actually be useable on present (cramped) air planes.

Very nice, but I'd break it before I left the store.

Hot, hot, hot!! I want one NOW!

I got a brand new laptop for Christmas and it's already out of date! This looks really good, I hope it's sturdy. I'd be afraid to snap it in half. It's really not that expensive, either.

While this is nice, I'm happy with the Compaq I received for Christmas. I would be terrified that I or someone else in my family would snap this laptop in half! Overall, I'm not sure of the durability of the product I'd be paying over a thousand dollars for.

I JUST PURCHASED A MACBOOK TWO WEEKS AGO. IF I KNEW THE PRICE WOULD BE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE I WOULDVE WAITED FOR THIS ONE. BUT DIDNT SONY RELEASE A LAPTOP THAT WAS JUST AS THIN AS THE AIR?

.16 inches is about as thick as the blade on your average kitchen knife. The word "Fragile" doesn't even begin to describe this I-only-had-it-a-week-before-it-broke-and-the-warranty-doesn't-cover-abuse gimmick gadget.

One more example of Apple sticking it to customers with more money than sense.

Love the size. Too bad it's a MAC...I see that as a major negative so would never buy one.

Where's the CD drive, connection for a printer, mouse? How do you load anything on it? Maybe the PC market will pick up the balance....

As I expected, all of the PC ignoramuses diss the laptop because it is a MAC. I use both and I would NEVER choose a PC over a MAC. Those who react that way probably have never used a MAC. If they had, they would be running to the Apple Store for this laptop. Anyone doing graphics will use a MAC. Anyone wanting the simplicity of "drag and drop" will use a MAC. Anyone who knows anything will prefer a MAC. The PC is Bill Gates' effort to copy the MAC window system....he stole it from Steve Jobs way back when and has never perfected it to the point of the MAC system. PC's are crap.

Compared to this laptop, my laptop looks like it was built during the Stone Age.

Too bad this thing is a Mac . . . I would certainly like to have something this size-and-weight...but you are not going to be able to chase me hard enough to buy one a MacIntosh . . . or anything other than a windows-based unit.

let me step on it once and see how it works

looks and sounds nice. Just with a klutz like me, I AINT going anywhere near it. Well at least untill they come out with one that has at least a 15in wide screen. I am getting up in age ( almost 40) and i need something i don't have to see. Something that small I would lose like these tiny cell phones, every time i put it down.

Carol, this is from the Mac Book Air web site:

"The innovative now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t port hatch flips down to reveal (and closes to hide) all the ports you really need: a USB 2.0 port, a headphone jack, and a micro-DVI port that supports DVI, VGA, composite, and S-video output. Even the MagSafe power connection has been reconsidered and slimmed to fit MacBook Air"

I'm a grad student and I can say that one USB port is NOT enough. I use three at a time, depending on what I'm working on. In order to use this computer I would need a wireless print server and a USB expander.

CANT WAIT

I love the Apple............have always found it to be very easy to use. (then again I always loved the Beta Max over VHS also - much better pic ad I still have one tha works and over 250 tapes - a lot of you don't even know what that is) The Compaq I have with Vista is fine, but like the commercial says, I am havig problems with it. My Compaq is sturdy, because I have dropped my briefcase a number of times and it has not had any issues. I have found Apple products to be fairly sturdy if you take care of them, and would love the mobility of this product. Only problem with Macs are the cost. After using one, everyone would switch if they could get it at the discounted price of many Windows machines today, I definately would. Now that it can run Windows the only hold back is the price thing. If they could resolve that, the Windows computer would die.

I always loved Macs. They work better and are faster than any PC/laptop I've ever used. Unfortunatly, the drawback with the Mac is the lack of programs.

This "new" computer is copied after the one found on board the downed space ship captured at Roswell, NM in 1947. So, it is actually 61 years old; from outer-planet design, that is. Being made of materials from an unknown galaxy, it is indestructable, allowing you to step on it all you want. Users claim the only glich found so far, is that occasionally a pop-up appears on the screen in bold green letters. It reads, "ET PHONE HOME."

It's a Mac? No, thanks. I'm happy with the one I already have.