Is the MacBook Air truly the “worlds thinnest” notebook?
It depends largely on your definition of “world’s thinnest”. The company press release for the original MacBook Air states in its headline that the MacBook Air is the “world’s thinnest notebook” and in the copy that “its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks”. However, as noted by Wired and C|Net, the Mitsubishi Pedion released in 1998 was 0.7244 inches thick (1.84 cm) and the Sharp Muramasas released in 2003 was a mere 0.54 inches thick (1.3716 cm), both smaller than the thickest point on the MacBook Air. The Pedion and Muramasas were uniformly thick rather than tapered like the MacBook Air, however, so some might note that the average thickness of the MacBook Air is smaller or that these systems from many years ago are not “competing notebooks” so the point is moot regardless. In any event, the MacBook Air is an extremely thin notebook, but whether or not it is truly the “world’s thinnest” notebook is largely up to interpretation. With t
