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There's something in the air. What is it?
這東西似乎輕盈得能飄起來。是什么呢？
Well, as you know, Apple makes the best notebooks on the planet, the MacBook and the MacBook Pro.
如你所知，蘋果公司生產了世界上最好的筆記本電腦，MacBook和MacBook Pro。
These are the standards in the industry by which competitive products are judged.
它們都是業界推出競爭產品的評判標桿。
Well today, we're introducing a third kind of notebook, it's called the MacBook Air.
今天，我們將介紹第三種筆記本電腦，它的名字叫作MacBook Air。
Now what is the MacBook Air?
MacBook Air到底是什么呢？
In a sentence, it's the world's thinnest notebook. So, what does that mean?
一言以概之，它是世界上最薄的筆記本。這是什么意思呢？
Well, we went out looked at all the thin notebooks out there.
我們出去找了市場上所有的超薄筆記本。
Most people think of this, the Sony TZ series, they're good notebooks and they're thin. Right?
大多數人都認為索尼TZ系列是很棒的筆記本，非常薄。
This is what they look like, side view there.
這就是它們的外觀，這是側視圖。
We looked at all of them out there, and kind of tried to distill the best of the breed of all of them.
我們觀察了所有的機型，試圖從中挖掘出最優秀的點。
And you know, they generally weigh about 3 pounds.
它們的重量一般是3磅左右。
They're, in this case, in the Sony's case, they're about 0.8 inches to 1.2 inches thin.
比如說索尼這個系列，厚度大約是0.8英寸到1.2英寸。
They're wedge shape. That's quite representative.
形狀是楔形的。很有代表性。
They compromise though, to get the weight down, on things like the display, they have an 11 or 12 inch display, most of them at 11.
不過為了把重量降低，他們做了一些妥協，比如說在顯示器方面，他們的顯示器是11或12英寸，大多數都是11英寸。
They also compromise on the keyboard.
在鍵盤上他們也做了妥協。
Instead of putting full-size keyboards in, they make miniature keyboards.
他們配置的不是全尺寸的鍵盤，而是微型鍵盤。
And they don't run them as fast as they could, because their thermal envelopes don't support faster processors.
而且運行速度也不夠快，因為他們的熱封套無法支持速度更快的處理器。
So we looked at this, and we said, "What do we like and what do we think is a compromise here?"
所以我們觀察之后進行了思考：“哪些是我們喜歡的，哪些是要妥協的？”
We think the weights, a good target, 3 pounds.
我們認為3磅這個重量是個很好的目標。
But we think there's too much compromising to get there.
但是我們也認為，為了實現這一點，妥協的地方實在是太多了。
Too much compromising on thickness, too much compromising on less than a full size display, less than a full size keyboard,
厚度上做了太多妥協，顯示器的尺寸上做了太多的妥協，鍵盤的尺寸上做了太多的妥協，
and we think you could put even more performance in one of these products.
還有，我們認為可以在這些產品的性能上投入更多。
