Right on the heels of the mega-successful CES, the Macworld has kicked off in San Francisco.

Another event that showcases hip new technology, this year’s conference has not let us down.

During the kick-off, Steve Jobs opened up a standard-sized manila office envelope and slid out … a laptop.

And the audience went wild.

The ultra-thin “MacBook Air” notebook computer is between .16 and .76 inches thick depending on the configuration you choose. It is packaged with a 80-gigabyte hard drive, and the option of a 64GB flash-based solid state drive as an upgrade.

Cool!

This was followed up by confirmation that Apple IS entering the movie rental market. iTunes will have 1,000 movies for online rental by the end of February, with prices of $2.99 for older movies and $3.99 for new releases. You can choose to  watch instantly over a broadband Internet connection, or download and keep the movie for 30 days while having 24 hours to finish the movie once it’s started.

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