The future of the notebook. Available now.Designing MacBook Air came with one goal Create an incredibly thin and light notebook computer thatrsquos every bit as powerful and capable as one twice its size. With flash storage durable unibody construction Multi-Touch technology and a long-lasting battery MacBook Air not only achieves that goal it sets a new standard for what every notebook should be. Perfected down to the millimetre.Thin light durable. Thank you flash storage.Even at less than two centimetres thin MacBook Air sets a pretty high standard mdash by making flash storage standard. Flash chips are very small allowing MacBook Air to be incredibly thin and light. Flash is also solid state meaning there are no moving parts. Which makes it reliable durable and quiet. And because we place the flash chips directly on the logic board they take up much less space mdash about 90 per cent less in fact. That creates room for other important things like a bigger battery. So you have a notebook that weighs almost nothing and runs for hours on a single charge. Thatrsquos mobility mastered.The best way to Multi-Touch on a notebook.Multi-Touch technology is part of practically every Apple product. Itrsquos the best and most personal way to interact with your devices. And the optimal way to experience Multi-Touch on a notebook is through a trackpad. Thatrsquos precisely the case with MacBook Air. The trackpadrsquos spacious all-glass surface doesnrsquot have a button because the whole thing is the button. And with new Multi-Touch gestures in OS X Lion you can interact with MacBook Air in ways that feel more intuitive and realistic than ever before.See your QWERTY in lights. Anyone can try to make a notebook thatrsquos thin and light. Success comes in doing it without cutting corners. Thatrsquos why MacBook Air features a full-size keyboard not a condensed version of what yoursquore used to. When you type on the MacBook Air itrsquos just as comfortable as typing on a desktop keyboard. And now the keyboard is backlit so you can type comfortably even in low-light conditions. A built-in sensor detects changes in the ambient lighting and adjusts the keyboard and display brightness automatically giving you the perfect illumination in any environment. A battery that can get you through the day. And the month.If you looked inside MacBook Air yoursquod see something remarkable how much space we devoted to the battery. Thatrsquos thanks to smaller components such as flash storage. And when the goal is to design the perfect notebook for everyday use giving priority to the battery just makes sense. With MacBook Air you can get up to 5 hours of battery life on the 11-inch model and up to 7 hours on the 13-inch model. Put MacBook Air to sleep for more than an hour and it enters whatrsquos called standby mode. That means you can come back to MacBook Air a day a week mdash even up to an entire month later mdash and it wakes in an instant. Time is on your side courtesy of MacBook Air.A thing of beauty. And durability.MacBook Air features a unibody design for both the main enclosure and the display. Unibody construction means a higher-precision less complex design with fewer parts. And that translates to a notebook thatrsquos exceptionally thin and light yet durable enough to handle the rigours of everyday use.... » read more