Who else thinks we will see the MacBook Air released today?

For those who haven't been reading up on the rumour sites, MacBook Air is supposedly a 11" or 12" sub-notebook, very light (<1kg) and very thin with solid state storage rather than a traditional hard disk drive. It may also feature WiMax technology and power-by-induction (wireless power) with a very high battery life. It will more than likely be more expensive than the 17" MBP.

You want to place any bets yet?

Sounds interesting, I hope it's not expensive, otherwise it's pretty pointless. Then again, all superportables are expensive.

Power by induction is awesome, though!

It's here!!

Not bad, tad expensive though. SSDs are too expensive ATM.

I'd really like to have one, but I'd like a standard MacBook more as I will more than probably need to read DVD's and CD's as a standard feature. Shame the standard MacBook doesn't have a backlit keyboard though.

Well it's too small to have a CD/DVD drive, and since when do you care about backlit keyboards?

I don't mind the MBA not having an optical drive, it'd be impossible to fit. CD's and DVD's are too big IMO anyway. It's nice to have a backlit keyboard on a laptop. I always use mine late at night these days and the glare off the screen makes the keyboard impossible to read in low-light conditions.

Heh, last time I talked to you about keyboards you despised backlit keyboards. I would think the screen light would actually make it more readable, though.

Well, I have always found my Saitek Eclipse keyboard difficult to read during hi-light conditions when the backlight is on. I could always just turn it off, but MBA enables it depending on level of light.

Oh, it's got Apple's typical "look at this magic" feature. Thing is, you wouldn't pay for that on a normal keyboard, and what's wrong with pressing a button? I personally find some automated things annoying, as they don't do it how I want.

You can disable it, you know.

Yeah, but I was just saying automation is worthless to me personally. I take it you can manually set it on or off?

Yes indeed! There's a video on the Apple website showing the backlight under different lighting conditions.

Ah, the videos don't seem to work for me, unfortunately. Don't really know why.

Well, the videos are in QuickTime format.

Yeah, I know. My FF doesn't seem to like QT, kinda annoying.