Free MacBook Air - For Real?

The Apple MacBook Air is the thinnest and lightest laptop available in the market today. Many websites offer this laptop as a freebie owing to its popularity.

Many sites currently offer free MacBook Air laptops. Apple products are the most sought after gadgets the world over. Among the laptops, the MacBook Air is the most popular one at present. The MacBook Air is a notebook designed by Apple, which was introduced to the world in 2008. It is one of the thinnest models in the history of laptops and is well known because of this fact. This is one the reasons why you see offers over the internet all the time offering you free MacBook Air laptops.

Some hardware features of this thin laptop (MacBookAir 1.1) are:
• 13.3 inch glossy LED backlit TFT screen
• Integrated Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor with 144 MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory
• 1.6 GHz (P7500) or 1.8 GHz (P7700) Intel Core 2 Duo with 6 MB on-chip L2 cache
• 2 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• 80 GB 1.8-inch ATA HDD or 64 GB SSD

Other features include a USB port, a Mini DisplayPort, and a stereo earphone jack, backlit full-size keyboard with ambient light sensor, and a single speaker located under the keyboard. All these features add to its popularity and are the reason why many websites offer free MacBook-Air.

If you have spent time scouting the internet for gadgets of any sort then you would surely have come across advertisement banners that offer free MacBooks. While getting free stuff is always a thrill (especially when it is a free MacBook Air), there are a few things to keep in mind. Make sure you enquire and understand what your part in the deal is going to be.

What personal detail are you being asked for and is it safe to give out this information? Should you give out your credit card details? Is there a membership fee involved? Get all your questions answered before taking the leap. Most of the time, these websites will ask you to fill out forms of the companies that they collaborate with. You may have to fill out 3-6 forms and in some cases; you may have to pay up a small amount. Once you have done this, the partner companies will pay the company offering the free MacBook Air, thereby funding the freebie that the website offers.