Anyone else see the coverage of the macbook air announcement?
Damn. Sweet design. The basic specs are pretty snazzy too. 1.6 or 1.8 ghz, 2 gig ram, decent size monitor, and best of all it has a full size keyboard. Yea the keys don't press down more than a couple milimeters, but who cares when the entire thing is about as thick as a typical sports illustrated magazine?
They are taking pre-orders now and they start shipping in 2 weeks.
The main weakness of the design seems to be the hard drive. The base model uses a 4200 rpm 80 gig 1.8" drive, which is probably going to be really slow. They offer a 64 gig SSD drive which should help performance, battery life, and prevent heat buildup, but... it's a $999 option (coupled with a slightly faster cpu.
I priced one of the nice ones out, complete with all the options I'd want... Just a tick under $4000. I won't be buying one but still... It's a very sweet looking machine.