The Air was designed to balance both performance and portability; it has a full-sized keyboard design and a machined aluminium casing with extremely low weight and thickness.
The MacBook Air is designed for thinness; it is also lighter than most competing models. The computer features a glossy LED backlit display and a full-size keyboard, as well as a large trackpad that responds to Multi-Touch gestures such as pinching, swiping, and rotating. With the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the Air’s multi-touch trackpad also supports handwriting recognition of Chinese characters.
The MacBook Air was the first subcompact laptop offered by Apple since the full-featured 12″ PowerBook G4 was discontinued in 2006. It was also Apple’s first computer with an optional solid-state storage drive. ArsTechnica found “moderate” performance improvements of the 64 GB solid-state drive of the first generation Air over the standard 80 GB hard drive in tests. On October 14, 2008, new models were announced with improved capacities of 128 GB (solid-state) and 120 GB (hard drive). For the late 2010 MacBook Air, only flash storage is available, in 64 or 128 GB capacities on the 11″ model, and 128 or 256 GB on the 13″.
11-inch model
| 11-inch : 128GB | 11-inch : 256GB |
|---|---|
| 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor | 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor |
| Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz | Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz |
| Intel HD Graphics 5000 | Intel HD Graphics 5000 |
| 4GB memory | 4GB memory |
| 128GB flash storage | 256GB flash storage |
| Price: $999.00 | Price: $1,199.00 |
13-inch model
| 13-inch : 128GB | 13-inch : 256GB |
|---|---|
| 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor | 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor |
| Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz | Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz |
| Intel HD Graphics 5000 | Intel HD Graphics 5000 |
| 4GB memory | 4GB memory |
| 256GB flash storage | 256GB flash storage |
| Price: $1,099.00 | Price: $1,299.00 |
Anders Norén
Before the invention of movable type and printing, simple grids based on optimal proportions had been used to arrange handwritten text on pages. One such system, known as the Villard Diagram, was in use at least since medieval times.
Anders Norén
Want to know more? Make sure you read The Secret Law of Page Harmony by Retinart. Great stuff.
Anders Norén
Including the link would be helpful.
Anders Norén
Here you go: http://retinart.net/graphic-design/secret-law-of-page-harmony/
Anders Norén
Thanks for the tip!
Anders Norén
After World War II, a number of graphic designers, including Max Bill, Emil Ruder, and Josef Müller-Brockmann, influenced by the modernist ideas of Jan Tschichold’s Die neue Typographie (The New Typography), began to question the relevance of the conventional page layout of the time. They began to devise a flexible system able to help designers achieve coherency in organizing the page.