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2008-03-09 07:21:49
Hi Im Jon
I work at one of apple retail stores and I am going to give you a guided tour
of Macbook Air, the world thinnest notebook.
With Macbook Air we didnt just create a notebook thats just amazingly thin, we
included a full size backlit keyboard and a stunning 13.3 inch widescreen
display, all in a package that weights only 3 pounds. At its thinnest point it
measures .16 inches and at its maximum height its just .76 inches.
It is made of sturdy aluminium and is durable enough to carry everywhere.
Macbook Air ships with Mac OS X Leopard and is optimized for the wireless world
in a way that only apple can do. It comes standard with the latest 802.11n and
bluetooth technology.
And now Id like to give you a closer look at macbook air and show you some of
its innovative features.
The top 2 places where manufacters compromise when building compact notebooks
is on keyboard and display. We didnt.
When you open up Macbook Air you will see a georgous 13.3 inch widesceen
display that instantly turns on to full brightness the second you open it up.
That's because it uses LEDs for backlighting delivering a crisp picture while
consuming less power. So whether you are showing off a kino presentation or
watching a movie everything will look stunning.
Unlike ordinary ultraportables that have small and cramped keyboard, Macbook
Air has a full size keyboard thats a pleasure to type on and its backlit. Just
like Macbook pro when the decreasing ambiant light is detected, the keyboard
automatically illuminates from behind. This is especially useful if you are
working on an airplane or taking presentation notes in a darken conference
room.
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Now lets take a look at the trackpad, not only it is larger but we have taken
some of the multitouch innovation we developped for the iphone and adapted them
for the macbook air. You may be familiar with trackpad gestures on macbook and
macbook pro such as 2 finger tapping for a secondary click and 2 finger
scrolling. Macbook air now allows you to pinch, swipe and rotate so you can
navigate through your applications more efficiently. Lets me show you.
You can use pinch to zoom in and out. It works right in cover flow and finder
You simply place 2 fingers on the trackpad, your thumb and forefinger work best
and drag them outward while keeping contact with the trackpad. With pinch, you
can easily switch between a larger icon view and a text view.
It works with safari to. If you go to a page with small text just pinch to
increase the font to a more readable size. To move back and forth through
webpages instead of hitting the forward and back button, you can use another
gesture called swipe, just use 3 fingers together, to page forward swipe from
left to right, to page backwards swipe from right to left.
These gestures work in iphoto to. You can pinch to take a closer look at a shot
and swipe to move through your photo slideshow.
You can also use a gesture to rotate your photos. All you do is select a photo,
place 2 fingers on the trackpad and rotate your fingers, its easy.
Those are a few things that you can do with trackpad gestures. The system
preferences on Macbook air has demos on how to use them.
The Mac save power connector is located on the left side of Macbook air.
On the right side all the ports are hidden behind this little flip down door.
Simply pop it open and you'll find a headphone jack, usb port and a new micro
dvi port. Which not only supports DVI but VGA, composite and svideo, so you can
easily connect projectors or external displays.
Above the display is the builtin isight video camera and microphone, which you
can use for video conferences or having fun with photo booth. A green light to
the right of the camera indicates when the camera is in use.
Macbook air comes with an intel Core2 duo processor, 2 GB of memory and an 80GB
Hard Drive. There is also an optional 64GB solid state hard drive.
The one thing you wont find in a macbook air is an optical drive, thats because
with the powerful wireless capabilities we have builtin, most users wont find a
need for one.
If you do need an optical drive we have created a companion Macbook air
superdrive. Its powered by the usb port on Macbook air so there is no need to
carry on a seperate power adapter.
But Macbook air was built for the wireless world. Instead of watching DVDs you
can wirelessly rent movies from the itune store, instead of backing up files to
a stack of discs you can wirelessly backup files using time capsule.
With Macbook air you can even wirelessly access the optical drive of another
mac or pc to install applications. More about that in a minute.
With Macbook air you can truely live your all life wirelessly. It starts the
moment you take Macbook air out the box, with the wireless migration assistant
that lets you transfer all your files, applications and preferences from your
old mac to your Macbook air, right over your wireless network.
The first time you start up a setup system will ask if you want to transfer
your information.
So what if you need to install software from a cd or dvd disk on to Macbook
air. Well we have created a brand new feature called remote disc, it lets you
wirelessly access the optical drive of another computer to install applications
on to Macbook air. It works with either a mac or pc. To setup remote disc you
just run a simple install on the mac or pc that has the optical drive you want
to share. The installer is located on the mac os x install dvd that ships with
Macbook air. In the next room, I have already setup a pc for remote disc, let
me show you.
Here I have a copy of the new microsoft office for mac, that I want to install
on my Macbook air. I simply insert the disk into the pc. Now I look in the
finder in my Macbook air and in devices there is a new icon that says remote
disc.
I select it and in the next column I can see the remote discs that are
available for sharing. Here is the windows pc that I enabled, I select it and I
can see the office install disc that I inserted a moment ago. Now I go through
the installation just as if I had a builtin optical drive. I double click to
open it and in a few minutes the software will be fully installed on my Macbook
air, wirelessly using the optical drive of the pc.
Using remote disc with Macbook air is really simple you can even use it to
install a new version of mac os x or reinstall a software that comes with
macbook air. Go to apple.com for more details.
So that's the macbook air, the world thinnest notebook. Macbook air is
available at apple retail stores, the apple online store and other retailers
who sell macs
Thank you.