The MacBook Air family is a line of ultraportable Macintosh notebook computers created by Apple Inc. Designed to balance performance, a full-sized laptop keyboard design and a machined aluminium casing with extremely low weight and thickness, they are available in 11.6″ and 13.3″ designs and a range of specifications, all currently using SSD storage and Intel CPUs. In Apple’s product range, they occupy a position between the tablet computer iPad and iPod touch lines running iOS and the thicker and higher-performance Macbook Pro laptops, and inspired a competing range of Ultrabook computers produced by other PC manufacturers.
Steve Jobs introduced the first MacBook Air during a speech at his keynote at the 2008 Macworld Conference & Expo on January 15,. The first-generation MacBook Air was a 13.3″-only model, initially promoted as the world’s thinnest notebook. It featured a custom Intel Merom CPU and Intel GMA graphics. In late 2008, the CPU was updated to a faster, non-custom Penryn…