By: Kenneth Christiansen
16 Jan 2008 6:36pm GMT I have a MacBook Pro and though it is a laptop, it is quite heavy and big to carry around. Basically, it stays at my work and I only bring in with me when I'm traveling. The MacBook Air is smaller, and weight less, it is perfect to put in your backpack and bring with you everywhere without annoyances. I know a friend who had an older mac laptop, 12" and he was so happy with it because of this reason. It is not an Eee or something similar but a real laptop that you easily can bring around. It...
By: Alan Pope
16 Jan 2008 6:36pm GMT Of course the true MacFans will be putting their money right in Steves pocket, lapping up the early adopter price tag. Remember the iPhone price drop recently? It'll come down in price, but like you, it still wont make me buy one.
By: skippy
16 Jan 2008 6:36pm GMT The lack of optical drive strikes me as a clever mechanism to further strengthen iTunes' dominance in the "legal MP3 sales" market, and to further drive Apple customers to rely on the iTunes music store. I know a lot of people purchase iTunes songs, burn them to CD, then re-rip them to MP3 format for use on non-iPod devices. The Apple Air will effectively put an end to that practice for its users. Certainly not the biggest deal in the world, but I think it's a sufficiently interesting...
By: Tony Yarusso
16 Jan 2008 6:36pm GMT So, if it doesn't have an optical drive nor an ethernet port, then if you were to get one for free how would you go about putting Ubuntu on it?
By: Janne
16 Jan 2008 6:36pm GMT No optical drive is not bad, and not new - the smaller members of the Panasonic Toughbook line have never had one (and I've used one as my primary machine for four years now). One USB port also not bad - use a hub. Slimness, probably not bad, but not important - and again, not new; Sony had/has an insanely thin subnotebook in carbon fiber for the executive who has everything (except a sense of value for money). But no ethernet? Only wireless? This is supposed to be a travel notebook. Sure,...