MY OPINION OF THE MACBOOK AIR
I am going to tell you what I think of the MacBook Air. Overall it's an amazing piece of technology. It's extremely thin. I was amazed when I first saw it. It's a beautiful looking machine and Apple hasn't skimped on power as many other thin, ultra cmopact laptops have. You can get a 1.6 ghz or a 1.8 ghz Intel dual core processor which Intel made smaller for Apple for the MacBook Air. You can get either an 80GB hard drive or a 64GB SSD (Solid State Drive), which is extremely fast and also extremely expensive. It has a 13.3" screen and a full size keyboard. It was also the first Mac to incorporate multi-touch technology. It uses this technology, as used on the i-Phone and i-Pod Touch, in it's trackpad to scroll, zoom and move objects. It only incorporates one USB port, one Ethernet port, and a headphone jack.
One of the features of the MacBook Air that has put a lot of people off getting one, apart from the price, is that it doesn't have an optical drive. Apple has developed an external USB optical drive for the MacBook Air which is very sleek and well designed. You can also use the Remote Disk functionality which allows you to access another computer's optical drive to install software or import music, etc. This is a very useful feature for the MacBook Air to have as you may not want to purchase the external optical drive. The MacBook Air's thinnest point is 0.16" and its thickest point is 0.76". This is extremely thin and I'm amazed that Apple managed to engineer it with sufficient cooling in place as there are no external vents visible.
In the next few years I plan to buy a Mac and I think I am going to buy the MacBook Pro. The MacBook Air is a distraction from the MacBook Pro for me, however, as I will be doing a lot of travelling to and from college as well as visiting different places and countries. The main reason I want to get a MacBook Pro is because of the power and hard drive capacity and also the 17" screen, as I think that the 13.3" screen would be too small for me. An ideal situation would be that I would be able to get both, but, I am eventually going to have to choose between them and the price difference will play a big part in this decision. The power and hard drive capacity which I have already mentioned are pulling me towards the MacBook Pro rather than the MacBook Air. We'll see what happens. Who knows? They may release a MacBook Pro Air!
