Gallery: Hands-On With the Unbelievably Thin, Strange New MacBook

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    Apple's new crazy-thin MacBook on display at the press event at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
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    Event attendees try the new MacBook's keyboard.
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    Apple has moved beyond traditional scissor switches beneath the keys. The new MacBook uses a new Apple-invented switch the company calls a butterfly switch.
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    The 12-inch Retina display is amazingly slim, just 0.88 millimeters thick.
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    The keyboard runs edge-to-edge. The trackpad barely fits---it runs all the way to the front lip of the laptop.
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    Apple had staff on-hand at today's event to assist journalists and VIPs.
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    Apple CEO Tim Cook shows off the new MacBook on-stage in San Francisco.
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