MacBook Air: plenty more details

Want more pedantic details on the MacBook Air? You got 'em.

• The micro-DVI out is single-link only, meaning it can drive a 24-inch monitor, not a 30-inch. There's no DisplayLink converter / adapter yet.
• Remote Disk comes on the install DVD -- ironically, Apple expects you to carry around a DVD to install so you can access someone else's DVD drive. Righty-o.
• It uses MagSafe, but the new connector is angled 90-degrees to stay out of the way. You can use a regular MacBook / Pro adapter, assuming you don't mind the side being propped up a little (or hanging off the edge of a table). You can also use the MBA's 45w adapter on other machines -- the plug should still fit, but the adapter may not have enough juice to charge AND power a running machine.
• The MacBook Air superdrive needs special hardware in the MBA to work -- Apple wouldn't tell us if any other devices will be able to use the thing, but we imagine the ~500mA USB outputs won't be enough.
• The 64GB SSD option is +$1000 -- but you probably already knew that if you hit Apple's site.
• The speaker is mono only (not stereo), so your audio output will suffer a bit. The audio comes out of the keyboard holes in the right side, and it sounds a little funny.
• The port array folds down, it's not a door over ports that don't move. It feels extremely sturdy.
• Duh, the only audio input will have to be via USB or the built-in mic.
• The machine comes packaged with micro-DVI to DVI and micro-DVI to VGA adapters, but you have to snag the S-Video and composite adapters separately.

[Galley Posted Jan 16th 2008 8:31AM]

The black keyboard is fugly; it should've been white.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 10:11AM]

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but why no mobile broadband, like AT&T, Verizon or Sprint? That would have made it 100% air all the time.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 10:16AM]

I'm concerned with the giant 'multi-touchable' mouse pad...My current MacBook Pro occasionally screws things up when I'm typing, because I sometimes rest my hands on it. I can only imagine what will happen when I rest my hands on a multi-touch while in the middle of typing something substantial...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 21st 2008 2:45PM]

is it right that it doesn't have any of these holes used for kensington locks? can't see any on the pictures...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 4:31PM]

hi, if it has Mono Speakers, will i be able to hear music or will it only play like tones, and thath kind of stuff?.

Thanks, because i want to buy a new notebook, but i need yo hear music, not loud, or hd but just to hear what i am dowloading, or to hear youtube videos.

[Picklesworth Posted Jan 16th 2008 11:09PM]

Hm... does this thing have a kensington lock slot?

Considering this is an ultraportable, take-anywhere machine
theoretically appealing to people on the go, that type of security
should be considered very important.

This computer is also quite obviously nicer in person, so it will
likely only sell well to the general audience if people can play with
it first. If retail outlets can't put it on display for fear of the
machine being sneaked out of the building in envelopes, it does not
stand a chance!

Possibly it is cleverly hidden in a corner somewhere. Can anyone say
for sure?