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I’ll take my MacBook Air with an SSD

Apple MacBook Air

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.

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