Daily Apple Quiz

The svelte Apple MacBook Air. Image credit: Apple.

Steve Jobs enjoys product introductions that are full of drama, and by pulling the MacBook Air out of a manila envelope on stage, he definitely emphasized the fact that it is thin.

Aside from being the first subnotebook from Apple in a long time and the first Mac to support Multi-Touch (the same screen gesturing technology found on the iPhone), the MacBook Air offered a new disk drive choice called an SSD. The SSD is a costly option and has limited capacity, but dramatically improves battery life and reads information much faster than a conventional hard drive.

Apple’s early digital camera.

While the iPhone featured a camera since its inception, and the current iPod Nano can shoot video, Apple’s product history doesn’t include a great deal of devices that take pictures or shoot video. But that doesn’t mean Apple never tried to offer such a product.

Back in the early 1990s, well before the iPod, Apple made an attempt to sell consumer electronic devices in addition to its trademark computers and software. The company released a digital camera in 1994.