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There's something in the air. What is it?
这东西似乎轻盈得能飘起来。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，苹果公司生产了世界上最好的笔记本电脑，MacBook和MacBook Pro。
These are the standards in the industry by which competitive products are judged.
它们都是业界推出竞争产品的评判标杆。
Well today, we're introducing a third kind of notebook, it's called the MacBook Air.
今天，我们将介绍第三种笔记本电脑，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，它是世界上最薄的笔记本。这是什么意思呢？
Well, we went out looked at all the thin notebooks out there.
我们出去找了市场上所有的超薄笔记本。
Most people think of this, the Sony TZ series, they're good notebooks and they're thin. Right?
大多数人都认为索尼TZ系列是很棒的笔记本，非常薄。
This is what they look like, side view there.
这就是它们的外观，这是侧视图。
We looked at all of them out there, and kind of tried to distill the best of the breed of all of them.
我们观察了所有的机型，试图从中挖掘出最优秀的点。
And you know, they generally weigh about 3 pounds.
它们的重量一般是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.
比如说索尼这个系列，厚度大约是0.8英寸到1.2英寸。
They're wedge shape. That's quite representative.
形状是楔形的。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.
不过为了把重量降低，他们做了一些妥协，比如说在显示器方面，他们的显示器是11或12英寸，大多数都是11英寸。
They also compromise on the keyboard.
在键盘上他们也做了妥协。
Instead of putting full-size keyboards in, they make miniature keyboards.
他们配置的不是全尺寸的键盘，而是微型键盘。
And they don't run them as fast as they could, because their thermal envelopes don't support faster processors.
而且运行速度也不够快，因为他们的热封套无法支持速度更快的处理器。
So we looked at this, and we said, "What do we like and what do we think is a compromise here?"
所以我们观察之后进行了思考：“哪些是我们喜欢的，哪些是要妥协的？”
We think the weights, a good target, 3 pounds.
我们认为3磅这个重量是个很好的目标。
But we think there's too much compromising to get there.
但是我们也认为，为了实现这一点，妥协的地方实在是太多了。
Too much compromising on thickness, too much compromising on less than a full size display, less than a full size keyboard,
厚度上做了太多妥协，显示器的尺寸上做了太多的妥协，键盘的尺寸上做了太多的妥协，
and we think you could put even more performance in one of these products.
还有，我们认为可以在这些产品的性能上投入更多。
