Apple Introduces MacBook Air—The World’s Thinnest Notebook

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apple.com - 11/19/2008

Apple Introduces MacBook Air—The World’s Thinnest Notebook

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13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with 1280x800 resolution; 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache; 800 MHz front-side bus; 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM; 80GB hard disk drive with Sudden Motion Sensor; Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100; Micro-DVI port (includes ...

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MacDailyNews: BusinessWeek blows it: reports Apple has no Multi-Touch notebooks

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BusinessWeek blows it: reports Apple has no Multi-Touch notebooks
MacDailyNews — ... on the iPhone—some Apple observers assumed it was just a matter of time before a multitouch-enabled screen showed up on the Mac," Arik Hesseldahl reports for BusinessWeek. "That hasn't happened yet. But as of Nov. 19, Hewlett-Packard has beaten Apple to the punch, announcing the first multitouch-enabled notebook PC, the tx2. I can't help but wonder whether Apple just lost an important race." MacDailyNews Take: Nonsense. Apple introduced their first notebook with Multi-Touch™ on January 15, 2008 . That's 11 months ago, Arik. Each model of Apple's MacBook family now sports ...

BusinessWeek: HP "out-touches" Apple
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... that the Dell Latitude XT, which offered multi-touch technology, came on the scene back in July of '08. But even that wasn't first, because the MacBook Air was introduced on January 15th of 2008 with a multi-touch trackpad. ...

BBC blows it: Microsoft to bring ‘multi-touch’ to PCs soon with ‘Windows Touch’
MacDailyNews — ... . Subsequently, Apple introduced more advanced Multi-Touch™ with the debut of the MacBook Air on January 15, 2008 . Each model of Apple's MacBook family now sports Multi-Touch™. And Apple's iPhone - which is also a portable computer from Apple - started shipping on ...