Amaya Toman In today's installment of our series on the history of Apple products, we remember the first MacBook Air. This super-slim and elegant-looking laptop saw the light of day in 2008 - let's remember the moment when Steve Jobs introduced it at the then Macworld conference and how the rest of the world reacted.
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There are probably few Apple fans who do not know the famous shot in which Steve Jobs pulls out the first MacBook Air from a large paper envelope, which he then calls the thinnest laptop in the world. The laptop with a 13,3-inch display measured less than two centimeters at its thickest point. It had a unibody construction, made in a complex process from a single piece of carefully machined aluminum. Whether the MacBook Air was actually the world's thinnest laptop at the time of its introduction is debatable - for example, the Cult of Mac server states that the Sharp Actius MM10 Muramasas was thinner at some points. But the lightweight laptop from Apple won the hearts of users with something other than just its thin construction.
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With its MacBook Air, Apple did not target users who demanded extreme performance from their computer, but rather those for whom the laptop is a regular helper for office or simpler creative work. The MacBook Air was not equipped with an optical drive and only had one single USB port. Jobs also promoted it as a completely wireless machine, so you'd be looking in vain for an Ethernet and FireWire port, too. The first MacBook Air was equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, was available in variants with 80GB (ATA) or 64GB (SSD) storage, and was equipped with a trackpad with support for Multi-Touch gestures.
