![]() ![]() ![]() Air in the iPad simultaneously represented Apple's latest, lightest, priciest, and most full-featured tablet offering. Weighing only a pound and shaving 1.3mm off the iPad 2, the iPad Air became Apple's thinnest and lightest iPad to date.īut unlike the first MacBook Air, the iPad Air lacked the tradeoffs seen in Air's MacBook debut. In 2013, the iPad Air brought the thin bezels introduced in the 7.9" mini to the 9.7" iPad. So while the Air moniker was coming to represent Apple's most affordable laptop line, it went in a completely different direction with the iPad. In this era, Air meant lightest, but with compromises in performance and a high cost to getting on board the bleeding edge. But with just 1 USB port, mono audio, and a slower Core 2 Duo processor than that found in any other Apple laptop, the MacBook Air made too many compromises & felt closer to a proof-of-concept than mainstream consumer laptop. For a period, the MacBook Air became the thinnest laptop available. The Air was the first Apple laptop to dispense with the CD drive and have the option of flash storage (64GB Solid State Drive) for an additional $800. Introduced as a new approach to laptops for Apple, the Air ushered in the first unibody design for a laptop (now standard fare in Apple products) and had a heavy focus on lightness (3.0 lbs) and cutting edge technologies. When the Air was announced, it came with a starting price of $1,799 and wedged (sort of a pun) itself between the plastic MacBooks, which started at $1,099, & the aluminum MacBooks Pro which started at $1,999. You'll remember this as the laptop Steve pulled out of an inauspicious manila envelope. The first product to be given the Air suffix was the unibody MacBook Air announced at Macworld San Francisco in 2008. ![]()
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