Yesterday we hit you with our MacBook Air unboxing video, giving you a look at the SSD version of the notebook. Today, we bring you our unboxing video and demonstration of the MacBook Air SuperDrive.

As you probably know by now, the MacBook Air doesn’t include any sort of optical drive built-in to the unit. While the Remote Disc feature is nice, sometimes you just want to have a dedicated optical drive. I’d hate to install Vista in Boot Camp using Remote Disc, if that is even possible. For what it’s worth, we think this is a worthy purchase to go alongside your MacBook Air notebook. You just never know when you’ll need it.

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The MacBook Air is the latest gem of a notebook from the Apple folks. Aimed at those who need something super portable (or, ultra-portable), the Air features a 13-inch LED backlit screen, a full-sized backlit keyboard, and it weighs just three pounds.

We got our hands on the SSD version of the MacBook Air, so we boot it up and give you a look at it’s startup time as well. The Air comes with a

Mini

Micro DVI-to-DVI cable, and

Mini

Micro DVI-to-VGA cable, and the expected power charger and software. We also noticed that the box it ships in is a lot smaller than those of previous Apple notebooks. Check out the video to see for yourself.

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Finally, eight months after the MacBook Pro made it’s appearance, and while more and more laptops started integrating ExpressCard slots into their design over PCMCIA, Verizon has released the V640 EV-DO ExpressCard device. We got one in earlier this morning, and promptly created a gallery of Unboxing photos. Take a look, and expect to see images and a quick review of the device later today over at Gear Live.

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From time to time I’ll post up some quick links of various unboxing activities that have caught my eye. For whatever reason (probably because I’m too lazy), I didn’t do a full post on each of these, but they’re still worth a link.

Flickr user mitchrusk11 has some Unboxing pics of a white iPod nano…

... and an ATI Radeon X1300 video card:
Tidemann has some shots of a Fullrate.dk, which appears to be a DSL or cable modem:
And last but not least, we have another proud MacBook owner, Matthew Botos:

Read his blog post describing the speedy arrival of his new toy, and check out the rest of the Unboxing Ceremony photos on his blog.

That’s it for this installment of Unboxing Drive By - stay tuned for more! 😊

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Flickr member jeffoxenberg posted a great set of pics of the Unboxing Ceremony for his shiny matte new MacBook in black:

You can check out all the photos in his Flickr set here.

Thanks to everyone for the great submissions to the Unboxing group on Flickr! 😊

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Was happy to read this morning that Julie Leung received her new MacBook yesterday.

Wicked, false, tricksy thieves broke into their vehicle and stole her Powerbook while they were on vacation a while ago (here’s a link to her Unboxing Ceremony of that machine). Julie, glad to see you re-horsed with a shiny new MacBook.

Now, how’s about some more photos? 😉

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Announced just this morning, and already people are getting their hands on them at Apple stores. Now THAT’s how to do a product launch! Here are some photosets from around the web of people unboxing their new MacBook treasure.

AppleInsider:

Flickr user pealco (Roger?):

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The new “lapzilla” - the 17” MacBook Pro - is starting to land in people hands. Here’s the first Unboxing Ceremony photos that I spied, from Flickr user EricMB

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The MacBook Pro Unpacking - a photoset on Flickr

TinyScreenfuls pal Nathan, a big Mac fan, has taken some great photos of the Unboxing Ceremony of his new Mac Book Pro, along with some, *ahem*, interesting photo captions. 😊

Check them out!

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/palmsolo/tags/macbookxp/

Geek extraordinaire palmsolo caved and bought a MacBook Pro, and shares photos of his Unboxing Ceremony.

As a bonus, he took some photos of the process of installing Windows XP using Apple’s Boot Camp. (I used Boot Camp to install XP on my Intel Mac mini - you can find the details and photos here).

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