MacBook Air Causes Worldwide Pants-Crapping

January 15, 2008 · By Ted Dancin' · 4 Comments

A worldwide, collective pants-crapping ensued at approximately 10am today as Apple released “The World’s Thinnest Notebook”, the MacBook Air.

Sporting a full sized, 13.3 inch screen with a built in camera and backlit keyboard, the MacBook Air is just 0.16 inches thick. In fact, it’s so thin that it can slide into a manilla envelope with room to spare.

Its trackpad is multi-touch ready which means you can annoy the hell out of your friends with the growingly popular “iPhone pinch-n-zoom” movement that is all the rave these days.

Inside is an iPod-sized 80GB hard drive to save space plus an option for a 64GB upgrade. In other words, it’s got enough space for all your crap. However, even with all the space-saving Apple managed to pull off, as previously suspected, there’s no room for a CD/DVD drive.

You won’t need one, though, because also introduced today were Time Capsule which wirelessly backs up your storage automatically and Remote Disc which wirelessly uses the CD/DVD drive from any other computer, Mac or PC. For those who can’t live without one, however, a $99 external drive is available.

Unfortunately, technology this badass does not come cheap. This dude’s gonna cost you $1799 at the most basic level. But something tells us there are plenty of folks out there who were dying for one of these before they even knew it.

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By the Steve on January 15th, 2008

Ok. I agree that the MacBook Air is a pretty badass piece of machinery. I also think it’s just a tad too pricey for most. I mean - for what you get, I’d rather have a MacBook Pro.

By the Steve on January 15th, 2008

That’s wigga-wack.

By JTrain on January 15th, 2008

You’ll also either see a) a huge price drop in 6 months or so or b) something crazy will be added to it in 6 months. They always start it off with something cool and then one up themselves with something totally unexpected. At least that seems to be the trend.