MacBook Air 2010 (photos)

The left side of the new MacBook Air features a USB jack, an audio output, and Apple's standard MagSafe power cord connector.

On the right side, you get an SD card slot, another USB 2.0 jack, and a Mini DisplayPort output.

Apple rebranded the old iSight Webcam, instead calling it the FaceTime camera, to coincide with the new FaceTime for Mac software that lets you video chat with iPhone 4.0 owners.

With the case closed, you can see the MacBook Air's tapered design. Apple says the thickest part of the system measures just 0.68 inch.

The thin design means there's no Ethernet jack or FireWire ports on the new MacBook Air.

Apple has retained the full-size keyboard in the new MacBook Air.

It also features the same glass multitouch trackpad as other MacBooks.

The new 13.3-inch MacBook Air, side-by-side with its 11.6-inch linemate.

Apple was able to make the new MacBook Airs so thin because it left off an optical drive and replaced the standard mechanical hard drive with faster, smaller solid-state flash memory.

Both MacBook Air models come with a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU in their default configuration. The main feature difference, aside from the display sizes: the 13-inch model gets a 128GB solid-storage drive to the 11-inch model's 64GB SSD. Apple also says the larger model has longer battery life.

Apple says the 13-inch MacBook Air will provide up to 7 hours of Web browsing over a Wi-Fi connection, and up to 30 days of standby time.

The 11.6-inch screen on the $999 MacBook Air is just less than 2 inches larger than the 9.7-inch display of a $499 iPad.

As with its other laptops, Apple built the MacBook Air with a single-piece aluminum chassis to strengthen the thin design that might be too fragile otherwise.