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2008-02-08

Inside the MacBook Air

On the site of the Mac+iPod do-it-yourself company iFixit we find a nice report about what's inside the MacBook Air. Some highlights:

clipped from www.ifixit.com

We were relieved to discover the MacBook Air ships in more than just a manila envelope.

Look! We found the battery.

The hard drive sits beneath the USB, micro-DVI, and audio ribbon cables.

The RF module, in all its blue glory. We spliced together two photos, so this image shows the front and back of the PCB.

The heat sink is made of very thin aluminum and looks totally different from anything we've seen in a Mac before.

We found Intel's new Core 2 Duo chip right beneath the heat sink (no surprises there). A temperature sensor sits on an external board glued between the CPU and graphics chips. A high-resolution image (632K) is available here.

We found a Broadcom BCM5974 touch screen controller chip on the interconnect board.

The display assembly is attached to the case with 19 small screws:

We're left with 88 screws and lots of parts. It's hard to believe everything here weighs in at only three pounds. A high-resolution image (568K) is available here.

2008-01-30

A MacBook Air Commercial and a Parody (videos)

A commercial of Apple's New MacBook Air Notebook and a Brilliant parody with an envelope and a piece of paper.

clipped from www.youtube.com

The New MacBook Air Envelope Ad

clipped from www.youtube.com

MacBook Air Parody

2008-01-23

Apple Air versus Asus Eee: A Comparison

clipped from www.devindra.org

Macbook Air
Asus Eee
Size
(H x W x D)
0.16” - 0.76” x 12.8” x 8.94” 1.38″ x 8.82″ x 6.5″
Weight 3lbs 2lbs
Display 13.3″ LED-backlit LCD 7″ LED-backlit LCD
CPU 1.6-1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo 900Mhz Celeron Mobile
RAM 2GB 512MB
Hard Drive 80GB 1.8″ (or 64GB solid state flash) 2-4GB solid state flash
OS Mac OSX Leopard Custom Linux Distro
Price $1799 $300-$400

After comparing the Macbook Air and the Asus Eee, it’s clear that Apple’s new notebook is not that great of a value compared to Asus’s surprise hit. The Air wins in overall sex appeal, raw horsepower, and a bigger screen. At the same time, the Eee is simply a more practical machine for those who only need a secondary machine to word process and browse the internet on the go.

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