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I’m sure many of you have been waiting for Apple to produce an ultra-slim portable notebook — I know I’ve been. The wait is over.

This morning at Macworld in San Francisco, Steve Jobs announced the MacBook Air ($1799). Measuring only 0.16 to 0.76 inches and weighing 3.0 pounds, the MacBook Air is the world’s thinnest laptop.

Features include a 13.3 LED backlit wide screen display, a full-size backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight camera, and an iPhone-like trackpad with multi-touch gesture capability.

Additional specs include: a built-in iSight camera, USB 2, micro-DVI and headphone via a flipdown door, 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.

There’s no optical drive on the MacBook Air. A “remote disc” feature allows you to “borrow” any nearby machines optical drive or you can purchase the optional MacBook Air SuperDrive ($100).

Two options are available: 1.6 GHz version with 80GB 4200-rpm PATA hard drive ($1,799) or 1.8 GHz version with 64GB solid-state hard drive ($3,098).

Great news for all Mac fanatics, but my only qualm is the rather slow and small hard drive in the 1.6 GHz variety.

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