

Not politics, but cool. A friend is live-blogging me updates from MacWorld conference:

Apple introducing world’s thinnest notebook: MacBook Air. MacBook Air is 0.76 inches down to 0.16 inches. So thin it fits in a manila envelope. It is thinner than one of those little notepads, it is thinner than a legal pad. Full size keyboard and screen, screen is 13.3″. Instant on, lcd lit display. Full size keyboard, backlit keyboard, built in isight. Track pad with multi-touch gesture support. Demonstrating double tap, two finger pan, rotate, three finger pan, pinch zoom (just like on iPhone – pinch in shrink, pinch out zoom out). Macpro air has an 80 gig hd standard, and a 64 gbyte solid state disk as an option… very pricey but fast, and quiet. The mother board is so darned tiny, smaller than a pencil, powered by core 2 duo at 1.6 Ghz standard, and option for 1.8 ghz. It’s totally wireless. No ethernet. portable dvi, headphone and magsafe, and usb. No optical drive. Powered accessory for $99.00 plug in externally. Most users won’t miss the optical drive apple has innovated a new feature for software installation. Remote disk… shows all macs and pcs that have a wireless installer than lets you “borrow” a machine’s optical drive and you can then install software. 5 hours of battery life. 2 gigs standard ram. It is cheap. $1799 shipping in 2 weeks. CD/DVD drive $99 extra.