What is it?

Well, as you know,

Apple makes the best notebooks on the planet

MacBook and MacBook Pro

These are standards in the industry by which

comperative products with judged.

Well, today, we are introducing a third

kind of notebook

It's called the MacBook Air.

Now

What is the MacBook Air?

In a setence:

It's the world thinnest notebook

So,

What does that mean?

Well we went out looked all notebooks out there

most people think of these Sony TZ Series

good notebooks and they are thin

This is what they look like.

side view there

We looked all of them out there kind of tried to distill

the best of the breed of all of them and you know

They generally weight about 3 lbs

They are in this case, sony's case about

0.8 to 1.2 inches thin.

They are wedge shape,

quite representative.

they compromise though

to get the weight down, on things like the display

they have 11-12 inches display most of them 11

they also comprise on a keyboard

instead of putting a full size keyboard

in they put miniature keyboard

and they don't run them as they fast as they

could because their thermal envelopes don't support

the faster processors.

So we looked that this, then we said what we like

and what do we think it's compromising

We think the weight's

a good target 3 lbs.

but we think there are too much compromising

to get there.

to much compromising on thickness

to much compromising on less than a full size display

less than a full size keyboard

and we think we can even put more performance

one of these products

So,

let's take a look at the thinness, first

this is that sony product, again

one of the best in the field

1.2 inches down to 0.8 inches

This is the Macbook Air.

0.76 inches down to unprecedent 0.16 inches

I wanna point something out here

The thickest part of the Macbook Air

is still thinner than the thinnest part

of the TZ series, ok?

We're talking thin here

So, it's so thin it even fits inside

one of these envelopes we all see float around the office

And so, let me go ahead and show it to you now.

This is it.

Let me take it out here

This is the new Macbook Air

You cant get a feel for how thin it is.

Yeah, there it is.

Right.

Amazing product here, the full size keyboard,

full size display.

This is what it looks like, isn't that amazing?

So,

let's go explore this in more detail

So again, it fits inside on

of these envelopes it's that small

this is what it looks like

incredible.

It's the world thinnest notebook.

You open it up.

It's got a magnectic latch, there is no hooks or things

to catch on your clothing.

and it's got a full size 13.3 inch wide screen display

and the display is gorgeous,

it's an LED backlit display

and not only does it save power

and not only does that give that really bright display

but it's instant on, the minute you open it

on the top of the display

it's a built-in iSight camera for video conferencing

right out of the box

and

you flip it down, there is a full size keyboard

this is

perhaps the best notebook keyboard we've ever shipped

it's phenominal keyboard

and it's fullsized

and with the ambient light sensor

it's also backlit.

We've got a very genereous trackpad

which is great

we've also built in multi tough gestures support

Now, as you know,

our current notebooks have some gestures

built in we've taken that even further

when you go to preferences

in the MacBook Air

you actually get the turn on all source

of other types of gestures and there's actually videos

in there and show you what they are.

So, let me run though with you now

you can double tap

instead of moving the cursor around you

can move the whole window around.

Right, just like a nice time saver.

So, that's great.

Here's another one.

When you're in a photo, a large photo,

you wanna pan around,

pan around with two fingers like this

another nice time saver.

You wanna rotate a photo

his works in iphoto and all the other photo apps,

just rotate like this.

Again, we've taken some of things

we've learned from iPhone

Now we're putting them in our notebook computers

Here's another one

If you wanna go between photographs

next photo just take three fingers and pan right

previous photo, pan left

and you wanna zoom

and pinch in and out.

Right, isn't that great?

So,

multi-touch gestures

pretty amazing

and again, you can see how beatiful and thin

this product is.

Now, how did we fit a Mac in here?

How did we do it?

I'm still stunned

our engineering team can pull this off

let's look at the bottom

take off the bottom

and there are three things in here

The battery, hard disk, and electronics.

On the hard disk

we wanted a 1.8 inch hard drives

We've shipped tens of millions

of these of ipod we know them well.

and they are great

and so, MacBook Air

ships with 80 GB hard drive as standard

and there is an option of 64 GB solid static disc

if you'd like it

these are a little pricey but they are fast

but the real magic is in the electronics

this is the complete Mac on a board

take off a cooling system

that's the complete Mac on this board

oh, well, okay, what's so special about that

this is how big this board is

It's really tiny

and to fit in entire Mac on this thing

was an amazing feed of engineering.

and we didn't compromise on performance

MacBook Air uses Intel Core 2 Duo.

This is a really speedy processors what we use

it all of our other notebooks and iMacs

1.6 GHz standard

there is an option to go to 1.8 GHz if you want.

Now, we've a got a great relationship with Intel.

Both companies are engineering driven

and they both love to challege each other

And Intel's got enormous amount of technology

and so, when we were building this product

we asked them to consider something

this is their amazing

Core 2 Duo chip

Right, this is a screamer

we said "we want that chip in this product

but we need to go to smaller packaging

the same dye on a smaller package"

it sounds easy but it's not

they spent a lot of

invested a lot of engineering to create this for us

this is the same chip

in a package but it's 60% smaller

and one of the reasons we could build MacBook Air

So, I'd like to say Thank you Intel.

and

it's my pleasure to invite CEO of Intel

Paul Otellini on the stage.

I'd like to give him a round of applause.