Yes, it’s sleek, yes it’s sexy, and yes there are lots who got pissed off when they found out that the MacBook Air has no optical drive among other things. Unfortunately, this upgrade doesn’t have anything to do with adding the missing features, but source claims a new upgraded MacBook Air is in the works.

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Last March, technology journalist Steven Levy relayed an anecdote about his MacBook Air in NewsWeek. The uber-thin laptop was lost, gone with the wind, without a single trace. Whether it was thrown along with the newspapers or just lost in between furniture, it was never known. You can prevent something similar from happening though—just give your MacBook Air a hint of color.

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Hey, the Apple iPhone touch keypad takes a while getting used to for people who haven’t yet or aren’t inclined to utilize a full-blown touchscreen smartphone. While those who own the device have no choice but to learn it, that doesn’t mean one can’t spice things up a bit.

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Just like the Lenovo X200, the new Voodoo Envy 133 by Voodoo and HP takes the MacBook Air head on. It might look just a lil bit chunky, but the carbon fiber case is actually just 0.7 inch thick. The Air just looks thinner because of its tapering design.

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The MacBook Air continues to face an onslaught of notebooks that are just as slim but provide more features than its “full-featured” self. Lenovo’s latest offering the Lenovo Thinkpad X200 has a spec list to die for…

Lenovo Thinkpad X200 Specifications:
- Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.4GHz
- integrated WiMAX
- GPS Receiver built-in
- Bluetooth 2.0
- Biometric Security fingerprint scanner
- forward-facing 1.3-Megapixel camera
- DVD burner

Via CrunchGear

Edit: Post has been updated to remove references to IBM. Old habits…apologies to Lenovo Thanks Lukas.

Without an ethernet port or DVD player, is Apple’s MacBook Air really a “fully-featured” ultra-portable laptop? Or is it just more Apple marketing hype? Well the guys at Slashgear think they’ve found a MacBook Air killer that can actually honestly wear the “fully-featured” tag : the IBM Lenovo ThinkPad X300.

It’s hard to imagine that there are people out there who would seriously draw the line at carrying the scant extra millimetres of the X300 over the MacBook Air, and so a decision comes down to OS X versus Vista and what connectivity you demand from an ultraportable. With superlative build quality, usability not impacted by its scant dimensions and enough grunt, if not for the sort of CPU intensive tasks you might ask a desktop PC to handle, then for all the everyday use you could want of it, it ticks more boxes than any of its rivals. Yes, the price - currently from $2,997 direct from Lenovo - puts the X300 resolutely into the premium category, but spec a MacBook Air with SSD, ethernet and external DVD and you’ll be paying Apple pretty much the same amount. And while the Air might have the gloss factor, it’s the X300 that, quietly but certainly, edges ahead.

Via SlashGear

Body-Laptop Interface, originally uploaded by Bekathwia.

No we don’t sell or plan to sell this Body-Laptop Woolly Jumper. My wife forwarded me this link and thought it was a good example of the craft and gadget world colliding…

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Freshly announced just hours ago at Macworld 2008 is Apple’s new super thin Macbook Air! I can’t believe how Apple crammed all the working parts of a laptop into this lightweight shell…See more of it at apple.com.

Apple.com, January 15, 2008 - Apple today introduced the world’s thinnest notebook: MacBook Air. It measures an unprecedented 0.16 inches at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. In addition to a stunning 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display, MacBook Air offers a full-size and backlit keyboard, a built-in iSight video camera for video conferencing, and a spacious trackpad with multi-touch gesture support, letting users pinch, rotate and swipe. The new notebook is powered by a 1.6 GHz or 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache, and it includes as standard features 2GB of memory, an 80GB 1.8-inch hard drive, and the latest 802.11n Wi-Fi technology and Bluetooth 2.1. Starting at just $1,799, MacBook Air begins shipping in two weeks.