Apples MacBook Air (Intelbased)

The Intel-based MacBook Air was a line of notebook computers made by Apple Inc. from 2008 to 2020, but it is no longer being made. The Air was first put above the previous line of MacBooks as a high-end ultraportable. [2] Since then, Apple has stopped making the original MacBook in 2011 and lowered the price of later versions, making the Air its entry-level laptop. [3] When it
came out in January 2008, the MacBook Air had a 13.3-inch screen and was advertised as the world's thinnest notebook.

This was the first laptop in the ultrabook family. In October 2010, Apple released a new version of the MacBook Air. It had a new chassis with a tapered shape, standard solid-state storage, and a smaller 11.6-inch screen. Thunderbolt and Intel Core i5 or i7 processors were added to later versions. [4] The Retina MacBook Air came out in October 2018. It has smaller dimensions, a Retina display, and ports for data and power that are both USB-C and Thunderbolt 3.

After the first Intel-based MacBook Air with the Apple M1 processor came out in November 2020, the Intel-based MacBook Air was taken off the market.
Original (2008–2009) (2008–2009)
On January 15, 2008, Steve Jobs gave Apple's keynote speech at the Macworld conference. He talked about the MacBook Air.

The first MacBook Air had a 13.3-inch screen model, which was first billed as the thinnest notebook in the world at 1.9 cm (the Toshiba Portege R200 from 2005 held the record at 1.98 cm).

It had a custom Intel Merom CPU and an Intel GMA GPU that were 40% bigger than the normal chip package.

It also had an LED backlit display with anti-glare, a full-size keyboard, and a large trackpad that could respond to pinching, swiping, and rotating gestures.

Since Snow Leopard came out, the trackpad has also been able to read Chinese characters written by hand.

After the 12, the MacBook Air was the first small notebook that Apple sold In 2006, PowerBook G4 was no longer made. It was also the first computer from Apple that could be bought with a solid-state drive.

It was the first Apple laptop since the PowerBook 2400c that didn't have a removable media drive built in.

To read optical discs, users could either buy an external USB drive like Apple's SuperDrive or use the Remote Disc software that comes with the computer to connect wirelessly to the drive of another computer that has the programme installed.

You can also use either choice to reinstall the system software
from the installation DVD that came with the computer. Remote Disc lets you boot over a network. This means that if Remote Install Mac OS X is running on another computer, the Air can boot from its installation DVD in that computer's drive.

The software can't play video DVDs or audio CDs, and it can't install Windows:

you need an external USB drive for these things.

In newer versions of OS X, the installation DVD has been replaced by a USB flash drive that has the software on it. This means that remote installation is no longer needed. [needs citation] There is no FireWire port, Ethernet port, line-in, or Kensington Security Slot on the MacBook Air.

A new model with a low-voltage Penryn processor and Nvidia

GeForce graphics was announced on October 14, 2008.

The storage capacity was increased to 128 GB SSD or 120 GB HDD, and the micro-DVI video port was replaced with the Mini DisplayPort.

A version from the middle of 2009 had a slightly bigger battery and a faster Penryn CPU.

Create the first MacBook Air

Apple put a lot of things into the design of the MacBook Air, like reducing the amount of lead to make it better for the environment. The MacBook Air doesn't have any BFRs or PVC wiring. It also meets the requirements of Energy Star 5.0, has a case that can be recycled, and has an EPEAT Gold rating. Its screen is made of glass that doesn't have any arsenic or mercury in it.

Reception

When it first came out, the MacBook Air got mixed reviews.

People liked how portable it was, but they didn't like how it had to give up some features to do that.

Reviews liked the full-sized keyboard, thinness, and Multi-Touch trackpad, but they didn't like that there weren't many configuration options or ports, the speed was slow, the battery couldn't be changed by the user, the hard drive was small, and the price was high.

The original MacBook Air had a flip-down hatch on the side that was too small for some headphone plugs and USB devices. This meant that users had to buy an extension cable. On the late 2010 model, Apple got rid of the flip-down hatch in favour of open ports like most other laptops have.

Some users have said that their CPUs locked up because they got too hot. Early in March 2008, Apple released a software update to fix the problem, but it had mixed results. One CPU core was no longer turned off, but some users said the runaway kernel problem still happened.

Tasks that use a lot of system resources, like watching a video or video chatting, make the problem worse.
In tests, ArsTechnica found that the original Air's 64GB solid-state drive was moderately faster than the 80GB hard drive that came with it.