The MacBook Air features a glossy 13.3-inch, 1280-by-800-pixel display with LED backlighting – the same physical size and resolution as the existing MacBook’s display. Another interesting omission is that of an Apple Remote, though users can purchase one for an additional $19. In addition, the MacBook Air is the first Apple computer since 2000 not to include any form of FireWire port, and it lacks even a slot for a security cable (a real pity given how tempting it will be to swipe one of these machines).
Notably absent is an Ethernet port, although Apple offers a $29 USB-to-Ethernet adapter as an option. The gestures can be turned off and on in the Trackpad view of the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane.Īpart from the power connector, the only physical interfaces on the MacBook Air (all hidden beneath a small flip-down door) are a single USB 2.0 port, a micro-DVI video port, and a headphone jack. Its “generously sized” trackpad borrows gesture support from the iPhone’s multi-touch display, meaning that with various combinations of finger movements you can zoom, pan, rotate photos, move windows, and perform other actions without having to worry about the exact location of your mouse pointer or manipulating tiny on-screen controls. The MacBook Air offers many whizzy features that you’d expect from a new Apple laptop: a full-size, backlit keyboard with an ambient light sensor a built-in iSight camera 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) wireless support a magnetic latch and a 45 watt power adapter with a MagSafe connector (note that the MagSafe connector is slightly different from previous MagSafe connectors). The slightly wedge-shaped computer ranges in thickness from 0.76 inches (19.3mm) on the hinge side to a mere 0.16 inches (4mm) at the front. During his keynote address at Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs demonstrated the new machine’s slim profile by sliding it out of a standard interoffice manila envelope (a trick that also appears in a new television ad). #1603: Replacing a 27-inch iMac, Luna Display turns a 27-inch iMac into a 5K display, OWC's affordable Thunderbolt 4 cablesīilling it as the world’s thinnest notebook computer, Apple announced the MacBook Air, a 3-pound Mac that fills out the company’s portable line between the inexpensive MacBook at the low end and the powerful MacBook Pro at the high end.#1604: Universal Control how-to, show proxy icons in Monterey, Eat Your Books cookbook index.#1605: OS updates with security and bug fixes, April Fools article retrospective, Audio Hijack 4, 5G home Internet.#1606: Apple's self-sabotaging App Store policies, edit Slack messages easily, WWDC 2022 dates.#1607: TidBITS 32nd anniversary, moving from 1Password to KeePass, pasting plain text, Mail fixes anchor links, RIP Eolake.
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