Let us take a look though the other specs of the Apple Mac Book Air and see if the sacrifice was worth it. This laptop is based on a 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7500 processor and 2 GB of RAM. the total storage capacity of the hard drive is 80 GB while the graphics card is the integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100. On a personal level, I must admit that I was never a fan of Apple laptops. There are a lot of other cool laptops on the market that have the same 13.3 inch display and come with many more features than you get from the Apple MacBook Air. I never cared really much about this whole “thinnest laptop in the world” idea ok, I have to admit, this laptop looks good and it is going to make you look good as well while you are using it. The dimensions of this laptop are 12.8 x 8.94 x 0.16 – 0.76 inches and the total weight of the system is 3 pounds. The operating system give you the possibility to choose between the Windows Vista Ultimate and the Mac OS X v10.5.1 Leopard.
The ports and features chapter is the one that interest us the most in this article. Unfortunately, like I mentioned in the begging, there is not much to speak about here because Apple decided to skip some port which, in our opinion, are a must-have even on 13 inch laptop. Due to the thinness of the laptop, it is obvious that there is not included optical drive. The unit comes with only one USB port which you can use to attach an external DVD player. There is also one DVI out and one headphones jack.
Can you imagine? We are dealing with a laptop that has no Express Card slot; no digital media card reader, no microphone port, not to mention the lack of an Ethernet port. This means that the only way for you to use the internet is via a wireless connection. It’s sad, but true. We would have settled for a docking station connector, but we don’t have any of those either. Battery life resulted in 4 hours and 20 minutes of laptop use with the Display brightness set to 40% and the wireless card activated.