(brisbanetimes) Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs took the wraps off a super-slim new laptop overnight, unveiling a tiny personal computer that is less than 2cm thick and turns on the moment it is opened. At the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Jobs also confirmed the tech giant's foray into online movie rentals, revealing an alliance with all six major movie studios to offer films over high-speed internet connections soon after they are released on DVD. At its beefiest, the new computer is 1.9cm thick; at its thinnest, 0.4cm, he said. It comes standard with an 80 gigabyte hard drive, with the option of a 64GB flash-based solid state drive as an upgrade. The movie rental revelation capped months of speculation that an Apple movie rental service was in the offing. The service launched in the United States today and will roll out internationally later this year.

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