MacBook Air Specs Revealed?
- January 14th, 2008 - 9.07 pm UTC
- Apple Rumour, MacBook Air, Macworld 2008, Ultra-Portable Mac
- Alex Brooks
MacBook Air?One commentor on World of Apple has pointed us to a page which purports to have screenshot of the MacBook Air specifications page on Apple.com
The blog posting reads:
With MacWorld just a few days away… we were watching the Apple Store website, and our vigilance paid off.
We had overheard the MacBook Air Spec “whispers” at macrumors and we wanted more detailed specs – so straight to the source we went and on a lark we typed in MacBook Air.
BINGO. THE JACKPOT. FULL TILT.
Having “been there done that” we quickly took a screenshot. SNAP. And good thinking too. All gone 23 minutes later.
Comments
Steve 14th January 2008, 21.24 pm
FAKE!
Ondra Soukup 14th January 2008, 21.37 pm
someone should tell whoever did this he’s an idiot and SSD drives usually come in sizes that are power of 2. or something reasonably similar. Getting 60GB SSD would require 15×4GB, 7×8 4GB, 3×16, 8 and a 4GB…no, nooo…it’s just bullshit
Miles 14th January 2008, 21.38 pm
Obviously fake as their is no such thing as a 60GB SSD drive from any manufacturer I can find.
edwood 14th January 2008, 21.39 pm
isn’t 2.8ghz too much? isn’t it in the iMac 24″ extreme?
Ondra Soukup 14th January 2008, 21.47 pm
Besides being good as a portable stove for camping with the 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo processor, someone has slipped badly when making this…
http://skitch.com/soukupondra/ra41/
Danno Bonano 14th January 2008, 21.52 pm
I Agree. 2.8ghz for a light little portable that should not require a fan and have as little of battery drain as possible?
1.8ghz with a 64GB or 96GB SSD could have convinced people.
Good photoshopping though!
Guido 14th January 2008, 22.09 pm
Why displaying a hard drive by the configuration, and not a picture of a ssd??
And.. why typing macbook with the display option and memory option instead of macbook air?
And what is SHD?? Super HD.. does it exist?
MacLover 15th January 2008, 01.40 am
Totally fake. All customizations screens show “Customize your Mac”. The screenshot is just of the black macbook customization screen with the bottom half of the laptop shrunk, “Serial ATA hard drive” changed to “SSD Solid State drive”, drive sizes and price changed, and stupidly the title changed to “Customize your MacBook Air”.
Such a weak job!
Kory Hearn 15th January 2008, 02.47 am
Hey – Did you guys see the article on ThinkSecret, it just went down, but someone snagged a screenshot at http://i13.tinypic.com/81st3pj.gif.
They say i’ll be a 64GB SSD, or 96GB SSD drives. No touchscreen, just the standard 13.3 incher with a wider trackpad. 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo. That’s about it. It’ll be awesome what ever it is!!
alex 16th January 2008, 00.32 am
It’s real, Steve Jobs just annoucned exactly the same specs!
Alex Brooks 16th January 2008, 03.38 am
alex,
These are no way near real, the MacBook Air comes with 2GB of RAM standard and is non upgradable. Hard drives are 80GB or 64GB optional, I can go on…
Ogre 16th January 2008, 08.49 am
You nerds got owned the HD spec was real lol lol nerds.
Rex 16th January 2008, 18.40 pm
Actually, Oger, you doorknob, the specs were completely wrong
Ondra 16th January 2008, 19.10 pm
Ogra: Yeah, totally. But it has one flaw. They were totally wrong
Malcolm 17th January 2008, 19.15 pm
The following are the specs of air mac.
What is missing: An optical drive, among other things.
This “computer” appears to be a computer for movie purposes which you purchase and watch online.
For my purposes it is not useful. In about a week go to
the Wired website for a breakdown of the specs.
13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with 1280×800 resolution;
1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache;
800 MHz front-side bus;
2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
80GB hard disk drive with Sudden Motion Sensor;
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100;
Micro-DVI port (includes Micro-DVI to VGA and Micro-DVI to DVI Adapters);
built-in iSight video camera;
built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1 EDR;
one USB 2.0 port;
one headphone port;
multi-touch TrackPad with support for advanced multi-touch gestures including tap, scroll, pinch, rotate and swipe; and
45 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.
Upgrading to a 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and a 64GB SSD will set you back an additional $1300, bringing the total price to $3100.
Appple claims battery life of 5 hours for the new device, which is 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, an 0.76-inches at its widest.
Other options include the MacBook Air SuperDrive ($100), Apple USB Ethernet Adapter, Apple USB Modem, Apple MagSafe Airline Adapter, Apple Remote and the AppleCare Protection Plan.
John Reed 24th January 2008, 02.27 am
On the whole I am quite impressed with the MacBook Air. It has everything you could want from a basic laptop plus is paper thin…