So the rumours of a super thin MacBook were true and the images from Wired were pretty close to what the actually thing looks like:

Courtesy of Apple.

Here are the big details. It’s less than 1″ thick, it weighs 3 lbs, runs on Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.6GHz or 1.8GHzIt has a 13.3″ widescreen LED display, a backlit keyboard, 2GB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, and no optical drive. That’s right, no optical drive. Their big thing is that you will not need to watch DVDs because you can rent movies from the iTunes Store (new feature added today). And if you do need to use an optical drive, the MacBook Air has a new feature called Remote Disc that lets you wirelessly use the optical drive of a nearby Mac or PC.The thing looks nice and sleek but I think it’s giving up too much for me to want to buy it. The base model (1.6GHz, 80GB hard drive) is $1899 and the higher-end model (1.8GHz, 64GB solid state hard drive) is $3,248. The features I’ve put in brackets are the only dis,tinguishable features between the two that I saw from first glance. Sure doesn’t seen like a $1,349 difference. And as I was watching the guided tour, every time I heard MacBook Air, I thought it was MacBook Error. Freudian slip, perhaps?Nothing new on the MacBook Pro front, alas. I was hoping for an update. There’s still three days left at the Macworld Expo so perhaps something might happen.