The Macbook Air, weighing in at 3 lbs with a thickness between a minimum of 0.16 inch per side and a maximum of 0.76 inch closed, I immediately pictured all the ways I could break this device by accident. Once opened, the Air sports a full sized illuminated keyboard, a 13.3 inch widescreen LED backlit display delivering 1280 by 800 resolution with webcam, and an iPhone inspired multi-touch trackpad. Under the hood, all 3/4ths inch of it, lies 2gb memory, built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. To make up for sacrificing your optical drive, the Air launches with a software feature called Remote Disk that allows you to utilize the optical drive of any Mac or PC that you install it on. But as always, Steve offers you two choices: a 1.6ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with a 80gb 4200-rpm PATA hard drive for $1,799 or a 1.8ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with a 64gb solid-state drive for $3,098.

If Twitter, a micro-blogging social network, hadn’t crashed at the start of the keynote, it definitely would have after from speculation of what Steve’s “Oh, and one more thing…” would be to make up for all the information that we would have rather simply read in an e-mail. But, alas, once you’ve launched something as innovative as the iPhone, it will probably take awhile to top it considering it was only this past year. Perhaps Steve simply wished to re-ignite manila envelope sales rebranding it as a Macbook Air carrying case in the same fashion that he transformed the paperclip into Apple’s Official iPhone Tool.

Note: Bryan is a proud iPhone wielding early adopter. Who would have known?