I think the list price in Malaysia is RM$7k - RM$7.5k. Anyway, here are some Wiki notes ...
MacBook Air
The MacBook Air is a Macintosh notebook computer produced by Apple Inc.
It is part of the MacBook family and features an optional solid-state hard drive.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed the MacBook Air at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 15, 2008.
It weighs 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg) and is 0.76 inches (1.93 cm) thick at its thickest point and 0.16 inches (0.4 cm) at its thinnest, making it the thinnest notebook currently in production.
To reduce the computer's size and weight, Apple omitted certain features long standard on its laptops. It is Apple's first notebook since the PowerBook 2400c without a built-in removable media drive. Users may purchase an external USB SuperDrive, or use bundled Remote Disc software to access the optical drive of another computer.
It lacks a security slot and an Ethernet port, although a USB-to-Ethernet adapter may be purchased separately. In addition, the Macbook Air only offers a single USB port (several USB ports are standard on nearly all laptops today). The Macbook Air also offers no Cardbus or ExpressCard slots, both standard features in older and newer laptops, respectively.
The MacBook Air is Apple's first laptop computer to be offered with an optional solid-state hard drive. ArsTechnica found "moderate" performance improvements of the 64GB solid-state drive over the standard 80GB hard drive in tests, but concluded that the solid-state drive was not worth the increased cost.
The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo chip specially redesigned for the MacBook Air, thus reducing the chip's physical size by 60 percent.
The laptop has the magnetic latch system of the MacBook and an aluminum casing like the MacBook Pro. The oversized trackpad offers iPhone-like Multi-Touch gestures, an improvement over previous MacBook trackpads. Among the gestures are pinching, swiping, and rotating.
An Apple press release calls the MacBook Air "the world’s thinnest notebook" and says it "measures an unprecedented 0.16 inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76 inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks" — such as Sony's TZ series, Jobs said in his presentation.
Laptops thinner than the MacBook Air's maximum height have been manufactured in the past, including the Toshiba Portégé 2000 (a maximum of 0.75 inches thick) in 2002 and the Mitsubishi/Hewlett-Packard Pedion (a maximum of 0.72 inches thick) in 1997.
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