History of the MacBook Air

If you were around to see Steve Jobs reveal the MacBook Air on stage back in 2008, then you probably remember how shocking it was to see a notebook that thin. And as usual, Jobs did an amazing job introducing it in the most theatrical way possible. [clip] But if you didn’t get a chance to see that moment and you watch the introduction today, it likely won’t have the same effect. And that’s because the first MacBook Air looks a lot like notebooks we see today. Which means Apple created a MacBook that effectively predicted where the entire notebook market would head, and that’s why Apple asserted that the MacBook Air was the future of the MacBook.