MacBook Air comes packed with software for everything you do - from the day-to-day things to the dare-to-dream things. And it lets you do them in ways that are simple, intuitive and fun. It’s all part of what makes a Mac a Mac.

Underneath all that thinness is a full-size, fully capable Mac that can do practically everything its larger siblings can do. Minus a kilo or two.

Features:All-Flash Storage.
Instant-on gratification.
If you have an iPod, iPhone or iPad, you’re already taking advantage of all that flash storage has to offer: reliability, speed and efficiency. So the decision to use flash storage in an ultra-compact notebook like MacBook Air makes perfect sense. Flash allows you to access data quickly, and it gives MacBook Air the astonishing ability to remain in standby mode for up to 30 days.1 Which means your MacBook Air snaps to in an instant, whether you open it tomorrow, next week or next month.

Long-Lasting Battery.
Instant on. Even after a month off.
Since space-saving flash storage leaves room for a bigger battery, you can devote more time to the things you enjoy most. Things like browsing the web, editing photos and watching videos. Get up to 5 hours of battery life on a single charge on the 11-inch model and up to 7 hours on the 13-inch model. Put MacBook Air to sleep, and it enters standby mode to conserve battery life for up to 30 days.1 When you come back to your MacBook Air and open it up, it’s on in an instant. So you’re free to go off the grid knowing you’re still on a charge.

High-Resolution Display.
Millions of pixels. Millimetres thin.
Corner to corner and pixel by pixel, the display on the new MacBook Air is both an engineering feat and a design breakthrough. It measures a mere 4.86 millimetres (0.19 inches) thin, yet the resolution is so high, you’ll feel like you’re looking at a much larger screen. And with good reason. The 11-inch MacBook Air features a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and a resolution greater than that of a typical 13-inch notebook, while the 13-inch MacBook Air wows with a resolution equivalent to a typical 15-inch notebook.

Portable Performance.

NVIDIA GeForce Graphics.
Power in motion.
MacBook Air features the NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor — the same one used in the 13-inch MacBook Pro. With a performance boost of over 2x that of the previous-generation MacBook Air,2 the NVIDIA graphics processor provides outstanding speed and power for browsing photos, watching films or playing games. It also makes all the everyday things you do on MacBook Air — like writing email and surfing the web — fast and energy efficient.

Intel Core 2 Duo Processors.
Small in size. Big on performance.
MacBook Air weighs less than 1.4 kilograms, but it’s a heavyweight where it counts. Intel Core 2 Duo processors get the work done fast. So you can be every bit as productive on MacBook Air — but in more places. Live-blog the event of the year straight from the convention floor. Perfect your sales-winning presentation from the airport terminal. Cite references down to a T from the library stacks. MacBook Air lets you do everything you need to do whenever and wherever it needs to be done.

Design
We learned a lot from iPad. The new MacBook Air is proof. It’s designed around all-flash storage for better responsiveness and reliability. It features a trackpad with full Multi-Touch support. And though it’s incredibly thin and light, its large battery gives you portable power that lasts for hours.

Advanced technology from iPad . Taken to the air.
A truly mobile device needs to be light, thin and strong enough to take with you wherever you go. It also needs to perform quickly, spring to life instantly and have enough battery power to keep up with you. It should have no spinning hard drive, no optical drive and no unnecessary parts. All of that is true of iPad. And now, it’s true of Apple’s most mobile notebook ever: MacBook Air.

Out of the box flash storage
MacBook Air continues its legacy of firsts with something entirely new for any Mac: flash storage. As standard. In fact, the new MacBook Air is designed completely around flash storage. But in a totally different way. Typically, flash storage is housed in a package that’s the same size as a conventional hard drive. Yet the flash chips themselves occupy a very small portion of that housing. Getting rid of the hard drive enclosure and using only the parts that matter — the actual flash chips — frees up about 90 per cent more space. And just like that, there’s room for other important things, like a bigger battery. Now you have a notebook that weighs practically nothing and runs for hours on a single charge. That’s mobility mastered.

The best way to Multi-touch on a notebook 
No one knows Multi-Touch technology better than Apple. Introduced with the very first iPhone and taken even further with iPad, Multi-Touch is now part of practically every Apple device. It’s simply the best and most personal way to interact with your software. And the optimal way to experience Multi-Touch on a notebook is through a trackpad. That’s precisely the case with MacBook Air. Now you can perform more gestures than you have fingers on a roomier, all-glass surface that’s smooth to the touch.

An incredible battery 
If you looked inside MacBook Air, you’d see something remarkable: how much space we devoted to the battery. Apple engineers were able to fit all the computer components on one of our smallest logic boards ever. Removing the flash storage enclosure and placing the flash chips on the logic board freed up even more room. And voila: space for a bigger battery. So you can get up to 5 hours of battery life on the 11-inch MacBook Air and up to 7 hours on the 13-inch model. And when you put MacBook Air to sleep for more than an hour, it enters what’s called standby mode. So you can come back to MacBook Air a day, a week — even up to an entire month later — and it wakes in an instant.1 Time is on your side, courtesy of MacBook Air.

Unibodt in unison.
When MacBook Air first debuted, it was groundbreaking in many ways. Chief among them was the precision unibody enclosure. Now that same engineering process comes to the MacBook Air display. Just like the main enclosure, the display housing is crafted from a single piece of aluminium, with all the structural elements machined directly into it. Total unibody construction means a less complex design with fewer parts. That makes MacBook Air exceptionally thin and light, yet still durable enough to handle the rigours of everyday use.

Software

Mac OS X. The world’s most advanced operating system.
At the heart of every MacBook Air - and every Mac - is Mac OS X, an operating system custom made for the Intel multicore processors and advanced graphics inside. The latest version, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, is based on an entirely 64-bit architecture, and so are virtually all the applications that come with a Mac. Translation: everything you do on your MacBook Air happens with dramatic speed and incredible overall performance.

Powerful applications that are easy to use.
Because Apple makes MacBook Air and the software that comes on it, everything works together perfectly. Becoming familiar with Apple applications takes almost no time because they all work in similar ways. So once you get the hang of one application, it takes little or no effort to master the others. And Apple understands portable productivity. Which is why we include features - like Exposé and Spaces — to help you access everything on your MacBook Air easily. With one keystroke or gesture, Exposé instantly tiles all your open windows, scales them down and neatly arranges them in a grid, so you can see what’s in every single one. And Spaces lets you group windows together within their own desktop, or space, that you can move between quickly. Create a space for work, a space for play, a space for whatever you like. Together, Exposé and Spaces give you a big advantage when you’re multitasking on a small screen.

Even the everyday stuff is amazing.
Unlike a lot of PC notebooks, MacBook Air comes with everything you need to send email, manage your calendar, organise your contacts and more. And it’s ready to do all these things minutes after you take it out of the box. That’s because every Mac comes with Mail for sending and receiving email, iCal for managing appointments and important events, Address Book for organising your contacts, iTunes for all things entertainment, and other fun and useful applications that’ll have you wondering how you ever lived without them.

One thing a Mac doesn’t do:
Get PC viruses.
Trojan horses, worms, email viruses. The digital world can be a scary place. Thankfully, a Mac isn’t susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers. Mac OS X comes with built-in defences that keep you safe, without any work on your part. And when a potential security threat arises, Apple responds quickly by providing software updates and security enhancements you can download automatically and install with a click.

Quick and easy connection to a wireless network.
Connecting to a wireless network with your MacBook Air couldn’t be easier.1 One click of the AirPort icon in the menu bar gives you a list of available Wi-Fi networks. Select the one you want to join, and you’re up and running.
Automatic backup saves the day.

And the week, month and year.
Backing up is essential. Yet you probably don’t do it as often as you should. That’s why your MacBook Air bears the burden of backing up for you. Time Machine, an application that comes on every Mac, automatically backs up your entire system to your external hard drive or Time Capsule. Time Machine keeps a spare copy of every file, and it also remembers how your system looked on a given day. So you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past.

iPhoto. The Mac way to organise, edit and share your photos.
iPhoto is an easy-to-use photo application that makes it fast and fun to organise and find your pictures, as well as make them look their absolute best. With features like Faces, Places and Events, iPhoto helps you keep track of your photos by who’s in them, where you were and when you took them — all in an immersive full-screen view. Use quick and simple editing tools to make so-so shots picture perfect with just a few clicks. iPhoto even lets you share your photos with the world online via Facebook, MobileMe and Flickr.

iMovie. Turn your home movies into home blockbusters.
Don’t settle for boring home movies. With iMovie, you can transform the videos you shoot into your very own indie flicks. Create a Hollywood-style trailer that’ll make your audience laugh, cry and cheer for more. If you know how to drag and drop, you can make a movie in iMovie. It comes with Apple-designed themes that look fun and professional. Just choose one and iMovie does the rest, adding animated titles and sophisticated transitions automatically. Customise your screen gem further with your own words and audio.

GarageBand. Put the spotlight on your inner rock star.
Whether you’re musically gifted or mostly curious, GarageBand is the application for you. Plug in your electric guitar or USB music keyboard and get ready to rock with virtual replicas of the most revered amps and stompboxes in the world, as well as over 100 software instruments. Just because you didn’t grow up learning your A, B and C sharp doesn’t mean you can’t. Basic Lessons teach you just that: the basics. Choose from 40 lessons that cover blues guitar, rock guitar, classical piano, pop piano and more. GarageBand even tells you how well you’re playing in real time with a feature called “How Did I Play?”

Technical Specifications:

Size and weight
Height: 0.3-1.7 cm (0.11-0.68 inches)
Width: 29.95 cm (11.8 inches)
Depth: 19.2 cm (7.56 inches)
Weight: 1.06 kg (2.3 pounds)

Processor and memory
1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache
800MHz frontside bus
2GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM onboard (4GB maximum)

11-inch Configurations
1.4GHz 

Display
11.6-inch (diagonal) high-resolution LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with support for millions of colours

Supported resolutions: 1366x768 (native), 1344x756, 1280x720 and 1024x576 pixels at 16:9 aspect ratio; 1152x720, 1024x640 and 800x500 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 720x480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio

Graphics and video support
Mini DisplayPort
Pure digital video output
DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter (sold separately)
VGA output using Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter (sold separately)
Dual-link DVI output using Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter (sold separately)
HDMI output using a third-party Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter (sold separately)

NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory3

Dual display and video mirroring: simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560x1600 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colours

FaceTime camera

Storage
Flash Storage
64GB
128GB

Audio
Stereo speakers
Omnidirectional microphone
Headphone mini-jack
Support for Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic

Communications

AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless networking4 (based on IEEE 802.11n specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) wireless technology

Apple USB Ethernet Adapter (sold separately)

Battery and power
Built-in 35-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery

45W MagSafe power adapter with cable management system

MagSafe power port

Keyboard and trackpad
Full-size keyboard with 78 (US) or 79 (ISO) keys, including 12 function keys, 4 arrow keys (inverted “T” arrangement)
Multi-Touch trackpad for precise cursor control; supports inertial scrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe, three-finger swipe, four-finger swipe, tap, double-tap and drag capabilities

Electrical and operating requirements
Line voltage: 100V to 240V AC
Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz
Operating temperature: 10° to 35° C
(50° to 95° F)
Storage temperature: -24° to 45° C
(-13° to 113° F)
Relative humidity: 0% to 90% non-condensing
Maximum operating altitude: 3,000 metres (10,000 feet)
Maximum storage altitude: 4,500 metres (15,000 feet)
Maximum shipping altitude: 10,500 metres (35,000 feet)

Included software
Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Includes iTunes, Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools and more.

What’s in the box
11-inch MacBook Air
45W MagSafe power adapter, AC wall plug and power lead
Printed and electronic documentation
Software Reinstall Drive

Warranty: 1 year manufacturer.