Monday, February 11, 2008

MacBook Air – the thinnest laptop ever





-by Mahbub Manik








Thinnovation plus plus !

Super Stylish Steve Jobs once again came into the center point of the world computing through releasing 'MacBook Air' – the world’s thinnest laptop ever. The MacBook Air was first introduced during Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at Macworld on January 15, 2008. The innovation of MacBook Air is coined as ‘Thinnovation’ for its super slimness. This is really a great innovation of thinness.

Features

The MacBook Air features a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display that has a 1280 x 800-pixel resolution. The MacBook Air also features a built-in iSight webcam and a full sized MacBook-style black keyboard. The keyboard is backlit, similar to MacBook Pros, and has an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts brightness. The notebook features a 1.8-inch hard disk drive with 80GB of storage capacity standard. A 64GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive is an option. The hard drive is a Parallel ATA (PATA) model that operates at 4200 RPM.
The laptop is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo chip running at 1।6GHz, with 1.8GHz available as an option.


Go Green computing …
The MacBook Air has an all-aluminum case, a mercury- and arsenic-free display, PVC-free internal cables, and circuit boards free of brominated flame retardants. In Consumer Electronics Show – CES we saw the participants presented environment friendly products. MacBook Air is also environment friendly. We should thank them for their initiative. If all industry try to develop green technology our world may long live.

And the Laptop Party in Bangladesh

Consumer Electronics Show – CES and Macworld Conference & Expo – these two mega events were the hot phenomena in world computing in whole January.The news of these events were flowed worldwide through technology websites, blogs, newspapers, TV channels, online forums and social networking sites. This time a laptop fair branded as ‘Laptop Party‘ was took place at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre – BCFCC in Dhaka from January 25 through January 27 organized by ‘maker’ a marketing communication organization. But this fair could not make a place in world media for its very small size and capacity. But we should thank the organizers and the sponsors for their initiative. Surely it was a success story. Huge number of people went to the fair ignoring severe cold and untimely rain. It proved there is a big market of laptop in Bangladesh. The price of the laptop should fit the buying capacity of middle class people to click and unlock the opportunities. Our media also provide much coverage. It may pave the way to arrange large scale fair in future. We have a great scope to become capital of technology in Asia at least. We have to remake and rebrand our image in global arena. So wake up the policy builders and entrepreneurs.


-This article first published in Weekly Economic Times (www.weeklyeconomictimes.com)

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