MacBook Air Benchmarks, Early Impressions, Disassembly

Multiple media outlets are beginning to receive Apple review models of the MacBook Air.

The units are the standard 80GB, 1.6GHz model, Gizmodo, Engadget and Macworld have so far received theirs.

The innards of a MacBook Air

Some early notes from across those sites:

• Gizmodo offers many size comparison images of the MacBook Air
• Remote Disk limitations; can’t play DVD media, can’t burn a CD, can’t listen to a music CD
• Engadget offers benchmarks against MacBook, MacBook Pro, and iMac.
• Gizmodo offers further “real world” benchmarks
• Common USB 3G modem fails to fit in MacBook Air

Gizmodo is the first site to open up the MacBook Air, offering a video and a selection of images.