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Cracking Open The Apple MacBook Air
Articles The Apple MacBook Air is laid out cleanly. To get an idea of how thin the Apple MacBook Air really is, we placed it next to a pad of notebook paper, a Visual Studio magazine, and a copy of the book Hacking Windows Exposed.
[March 18, 2008, 15:20]
Apple Air Prices
Talkback These are the UK prices from Apple. Price in the UK is £1,199 (including VAT). The model that comes with the SSD drive and faster CPU is £2,028 (inc. VAT). Check out the "First Look" on our home page.
[January 17, 2008, 8:30]
Apple's Leopard Lasts '30 Seconds' In Hack Contest
News Security firm Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) — the same company that discovered the first iPhone bug last year — has successfully compromised a fully patched Apple MacBook Air at the CanSecWest competition, winning $10,000 (£5,000;) as a...
[March 28, 2008, 8:22]
Apple Plugs Safari Vulnerabilities
News Apple has released another round of security patches for its web browser this week, targeting a vulnerability which allowed a MacBook Air to be hacked and two flaws in the Windows-only version of Safari.
[April 18, 2008, 8:46]
MacBook Air Conditioning May Not Be So Cool
Blog Comment I guess in my super light Macbook air bag I'll also need a bunch of accessories - a optical drive, a network adapter, a usb hub, powered usb hub power supply, macbook power supply and if macbook pros are anything to go by a cooling tray).
[January 18, 2008, 7:51]
Dell Sees Future In Miniature Notebooks
News Asked what he thought of Apple's MacBook Air, outgoing president of Linux Australia, Jonathan Oxer, told ZDNet Australia: "I want one". Although many applications on the MacBook Air are for Apple only, the fundamental architecture is based on BSD...
[February 7, 2008, 16:47]
MacBook Air Conditioning May Not Be So Cool
Blog To see how that works, try a thought experiment where Apple, not Asus, launched a £220 computer with roughly the same spec as the Eee - and Asus launched a MacBook Air-alike. MacBook Air: can it has the pretty?
[January 16, 2008, 23:59]
Better Broadband: The Screenplay
Leader This year, his audience gasped at the MacBook Air, a fantastically thin, fabulously expensive computer that in reality is a repackaged MacBook with fewer ports and a battery you can't change. By achieving three impossible things — getting all the...
[January 16, 2008, 17:03]
Different Varieties Of Apple Are Healthier
Leader The MacBook Air is a champagne laptop in a beer economy; the buzz is already dying, even as the units hit the shops. It takes a long memory to recall the last time Apple had an enterprise strategy that went beyond occasionally producing a server.
[January 29, 2008, 16:42]
Ballmer Pledges 'last Breath' To Catching Google Up
News Last time I checked, there were a lot of governments that think we have a very high market share," said Ballmer, who joked earlier that Kawasaki's super-thin Apple MacBook Air lacked half the features of a PC.
[March 7, 2008, 7:58]
Macworld Speculation Focuses On Ultraportable
News As the Macworld expo gears up to open on Tuesday, the greatest amount of speculation about new products centres on a possible ultramobile MacBook laptop. Banners at the Moscone centre in San Francisco, where the event will be held, reportedly read...
[January 14, 2008, 17:03]
Macworld: Jobs Demos New MacBook Air
News At Macworld 2008 in San Francisco on Tuesday, Apple chief Steve Jobs showed off the company's new ultraportable notebook, the MacBook Air. The new notebook is 0.76-inch thick and runs on Intel's Core 2 Duo with both 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz options.
[January 16, 2008, 13:59]
MacBook Air Conditioning May Not Be So Cool
Blog Comment The Macbook Air isn't innovative at all. Assuming that Asus is making a decent whack out of the Eee - say thirty percent on RRP, which I think is conservative - then Apple could have applied its trademark Ivian design touches, thrown in a bit more...
[January 21, 2008, 11:36]
OMG Pwnies!
Blog In the past, a lot of dust has been stirred up by demos of an attack on an Apple MacBook and a Cisco router flaw. There's a tongue-in-cheek air to the whole affair: One of the categories is for best song.
[July 24, 2007, 11:57]
On The Floor At Macworld 2008
News The Apple display at Macworld 2008 on Tuesday featured MacBook Airs hanging from the ceiling. Macworld attendees get a chance to interact with the new MacBook Airs at an Apple station lined with the computers.
[January 17, 2008, 11:00]
Torvalds Admits Concerns Over Patents
News Earlier this year, Apple launched an SSD drive option in its MacBook Air, which was announced at the Macworld show in San Francisco. In a video interview at linux.conf.au in Melbourne last week, founder and co-ordinator of the Linux kernel Linus...
[February 6, 2008, 9:56]
Fight The Temptation
Talkback I may be persuaded however if someone can verify that the Apple care plan will cover any damage i may cause whilst doing so.its so tiny.temptatio That looks so cool inside. I have one sitting next to me at the moment still in its box but i am...
[April 11, 2008, 11:10]
2 MB RAM
Member Review In 1991 my friend bought a PC with 2MB RAM, i asked him what for so much RAM? For a RAM Disk! Good answer, he had fastest PC around. Today it is different, you should probably change 2 MB to 2 GiB in specifications section.
[January 30, 2008, 6:25]
Not An Ultraportable??
Talkback Your story says that the Air is not quite an ultraportable. On what basis? Seems pretty ultraportable to me!
[January 17, 2008, 8:29]
Definition...
Talkback The MacBook Air is both light (1.36kg) and very slim (1.94-0.4cm), but it has a relatively large footprint (32.5cm x 22.7cm) thanks to its full-sized screen and keyboard. Many people will find the MacBook Air perfectly 'ultraportable', as you point...
[January 17, 2008, 8:30]
