Floating on Air

My laptop is cool and all, but getting my hands on the latest Mac laptop--the MacBook Air--would be phenomenal.

This thing is 0.76 inches thick when closed and 0.16 inches thick when open, and for comparison's sake, a regular DELL laptop is 1.26 inches thick.

(Photos courtesy of infoSyncWorld.com)

The computer also turns on as soon as it's opened, and it comes standard with an 80-gigabyte hard drive, with the option of a 64GB flash-based solid state drive as an upgrade. Because of the laptop's sleek structure, something had to be sacrificed, so the MacBook Air comes without a CD or DVD drive.

The Air will go on sale in two weeks and cost $1,800.

The laptop was revealed by Apple exec Steve Jobs at the Macworld trade show today. Jobs also unveiled an online video rental service that will allow users to download movies for $2.99 - $3,99 and watch them over a broadband Internet connection. They can also download and keep the movie for 30 days while having 24 hours to finish the movie once it's started.

If you didn't know it already, Apple is taking over the world.