Not Thinnest Ever: MacBook Air vs Pedion and Sony Vaio X505

The news was flying in yesterday from MacWorld 2008 as we tried to cover as much as possible for you, but today we find out something interesting about the very thin Apple MacBook Air.

As you can see in the photo above, the MacBook Air is very thin and it is the thinnest notebook on the market today, but it has been beat for the record of thinnest of all time by the Pedion.

The ill-fated notebook was developed by Hewlett-Packard and Mitsubishi in 1997, the Pedion was 0.7244 inches thick and that beats The MacBook Air’s beefiest portion at 0.76 inch (although it does have a size of 0.16 inches at the thinnest point).

The Pedion $6,000 notebook had many mechanical and other problems so Mitsubishi subsequently ended the notebooks life.

A special-edition Sony Vaio X505 which went on sale in 2004 came close to Apple’s Air with a measurement of 0.38 inches at the thinnest point and 0.8 inches at the fattest.

So because Apple has called the Mac Air “world’s thinnest notebook”, how should we interpret that, ever or on market today?

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