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Well it’s been nearly a month since the MacBook Air, the world’s thinnest notebook, was introduced at the Macworld Expo keynote. There have been a great number of reviews done on it since then so we thought we would give you a quick summery of what everyone seems to like, and dislike about this amazingly thin notebook.

First the good

  • Its 0.76 inches (19 mm) at its thickest and 0.16 (4mm) at its thinnest and can easily fit inside at A4 envelope.
  • Despite only weighing 3 pounds it has a 13.3 inch screen and a full sized keyboard.
  • The touchpad uses gesture-based, multi-touch technology meaning you can use two fingers to: rotate images, pinch and enlarge images, zoom in on text and much more.
  • It has a sturdy aluminium frame so should travel well.

The not so good

  • It doesn’t have a removable battery, which means you can’t carry a spare battery with you.
  • It has only one USB port and only three connectors all together (a headphone jack, the single USB port, and a port for connecting to an external monitor)
  • There is no build in optical drive, which is understandable given how thin it is. Instead it includes software that allows you to use the DVD drive of another computer on the same network or else you can purchase an external DVD drive that connects to the USB port.

To learn more about the MacBook Air click here.