But most of the Mac fans crowding around the MacBook Air on display at the trade show didn't seem to worry about the machine's sturdiness, any more than any other notebook.
An aside: Skorny came to the meeting with one of the odder computers I have ever seen: a MacBook Air on which he has has ripped out the Mac OS completely and installed Microsoft Windows 7 instead.
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Moments after Steve Jobs unveiled Apple 's thin new MacBook Air on Tuesday at MacWorld, dozens of units were put out on the show floor at San Francisco's Moscone Center, accompanied by teams of Apple employees, dressed in identical, long-sleeve black T-shirts.
Moments after Steve Jobs unveiled Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) thin new MacBook Air on Tuesday at MacWorld, dozens of units were put out on the show floor at San Francisco's Moscone Center, accompanied by teams of Apple employees, dressed in identical, long-sleeve black T-shirts.
So, an identical Web page in the identical browser displays more on the MacBook Air than on the Dell XPS 13.
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Mr. Grahame-Smith wrote "Unholy Night" late at night on his MacBook Air, in hotel rooms and on airplanes and during breaks on movie sets.
Designed to take on the MacBook Air, some might argue that Google copied the Apple playbook in designing Chomebook Pixel.
During her hourlong structural engineering class she sends 20-plus e-mails, works on a class paper and takes meticulous notes in outline form on her MacBook Air.
During her 9 a.m. hourlong structural engineering class she sends 20-plus e-mails, works on a class paper and takes meticulous notes in outline form on her MacBook Air.
On a recent morning, my wife was busy with several work related tasks on her Macbook Air when our two year-old daughter sprinted across the room and dove onto the couch, knocking the computer lid shut.
Sure, it won't help you love your pokey PC or Mac any more (though Apple's doing its own work on this problem with its misnomered "instant on" feature on the MacBook Air, which wakes the computer from hibernation in a few seconds), but it's a nice glimpse of what's to come.
The same is mostly true for the iMac, and it seems as if this trend will continue on with the MacBook Air line of lightweight computers.
From the envelope emerges the MacBook Air--the thinnest notebook computer on the planet, measuring .16 inches at its narrowest point.
That's awful compared with the 6 hours and 13 minutes I got on the 13-inch MacBook Air in the same test.
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But those hardware bases are on the decline: Witness the MacBook Air, which contains no CD drive, and the increasing availability of Bluetooth MP3 players and satellite radio in cars.
The MacBook Air is the most successful laptop sold today because it focuses on a lightweight body and great battery life above all else.
However, the MacBook Air did much better, lasting 5 hours and 51 minutes on the same test suggesting users would likely achieve Apple's claimed seven hours of battery life in more normal use.
As for the robot itself, it's currently designed to work with an 11-inch MacBook Air that conveniently doubles as its torso, and it relies on a PrimeSense motion sensor to monitor its surroundings.
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The MacBook Air has far fewer ports than what you'll find on some of the monstrous "desktop replacement" laptops now available: Flip down a small hatch, and you'll find three that can handle many needs.
Apple currently relies on relatively ancient Core 2 duo processors for the MacBook Air, apparently to maintain compatibility with the Nvidia graphics processor Apple favored for the current generation of the device.
On the more traditional laptop front, Apple's MacBook Air-- introduced in January--is a good example of the progress being made at the high end.
Finally, the Ultrabooks start quickly, more like a MacBook Air than the old PCs which would grind away for minutes before applications appeared on the screen.
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Some Apple fans even got hands-on time with the iPhone, the iPod Touch and the new MacBook Air.
Key to the device is what's missing: Instead of the optical drive built into most other portable devices, the MacBook Air can wirelessly borrow another device's optical drive, so that it can access software or data stored on a disk.
Huang used an iPad and MacBook Air to access rich computer-aided design files and special effects software that typically require a burly graphics processor running on a dedicated workstation or server.
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