The 13-inch machine also shipped with an SD card slot.Īpple said that the lessons it learned building the iPhone, iPad and iPod made the MacBook Air possible, and it showed. Each MacBook Air came with MagSafe, a pair of USB ports (one on each side) and a headphone jack. The keyboard and multi-touch trackpads were full-sized, and IO was way better than before. The new machine came in two sizes - 13.3 and 11.6 inches - and tapered down to a thin edge at the front of the machine. The new MacBook Air delivered on these promises, and defined a whole new class of laptops.

Thinner and lighter than other notebooks.

Great battery life with 30-day standby time.

The answer was a remarkable new laptop that had a lot of iPad-like characteristics: What would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked up?

Steve Jobs unveiled the second-generation MacBook Air at the company’s “Back to the Mac” press event, and he said the machine arose from a simple question: 1 However, a few years later, in the fall of 2010, Apple got it right. In hindsight, I think the original Air was a little bit ahead of its time - it really needed an SSD to truly sing, and the design was a bit compromised. The hinges proved to be fragile, the small port door was annoying and the computer was slllooooooMacBook Air customers often saw one whole core of the CPU shut down to keep things from overheating. Sadly, the first iteration of the MacBook Air was a pretty mediocre computer. When the original MacBook Air was introduced, it was positioned - both in price and marketing - as a high-end, ultra-portable notebook that was perfect for those who traveled a lot for work or just wanted the lightest Mac notebook possible.

With the 2010s coming to an end, I thought it would be a good time to talk about what I think were Apple’s most influential products in the last ten years.

Macbook 11 inch 2010