Just introduced a few hours ago by Steve Jobs at MacWorld.
Talk about thin — 0.76 inches at it’s widest. For those of you from Rio Lindo, that’s just a hair more than 3/4ths of an inch thick.
Features include a full-sized keyboard and a 13.3” LED- backlit screen. The keyboard has an ambient light sensor (something I desperately wish my laptop had) and a multi-touch trackpad. The multi-touch trackpad has a cool feature — you can select a picture, move your index finger and thumb (or your feet if you’re a Chimpanzee-American) to rotate it. You can also use the trackpad to pinch a picture smaller or to expand it.
Unfortunately, there is no CD or DVD drive but the system does come with a cable to let you use an optical drive from another computer, either PC or Mac.
The system should be available in a couple of weeks. The standard configuration is a 1.6 GHz processor, 2 GB of RAM (very nice), and an 80 GB hard drive. The price? A mere $1,799. Expect the price to come down and the standard features to get better over time.
I’ve got Mac envy big time.
Oh, yeah — Greenpeace likes it, too.
For more information, check out Macworld.
This is an interesting approach. Perceptions of how one is viewed certainly does influence what we say and don’t say.