Jobs unveils new super-thin laptop

Yesterday, Apple's CEO Steve Jobs gave his speech at MacWorld Expo, San Francisco. The annual showcase is a highly anticipated affair every year, with Jobs regularly using the opportunity to announce new Apple products. Last year, the buzzword was 'iPhone' and whilst there wasn't really anything in the way of a revolutionary product capable of creating the global hype of 2007, a new super-thin aluminium-clad laptop was introduced to the media masses. The MacBook Air, a mere 0.16-inches at its thinnest point and 0.76-inches at its maximum is targeted to similar audiences that have gobbled up the iPod and iPhone devices. Controversially, the MacBook Air doesn't include an in-built optical drive, with a super-drive acting as a separate component for discs. Alternatively, there is the opportunity to wirelessly transfer from an optical drive of another computer, including PCs. In terms of the laptop touchpad, Apple have continued to develop their love affair of multi-touch and "gestures". In several applications, including Safari users will be able to "pinch", "swipe" and "rotate" using a series of different finger motions. For web sites that include multiple pages the new gestures function gives users the opportunity to flit between Safari pages by using three fingers and swiping left and right. For pages with small content and fonts, the new touchpad gives the ability to magnify using a "pinch" gesture. The MacBook Air will be priced from $1,800US. Also revealed was a new version of Apple TV, an app that allows you to connect to the internet directly and download TV shows, movies (including hi def) and music through iTunes. According to Apple, users could be able to start watching their content within seconds, provided they had a fast internet connection.