Apple MacBook Air MB003LL/A 13.3″ Laptop (1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive)
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Excellent machine with interesting compromises
After being used to traveling with a MacBook Pro I wondered if the MacBook Air would have enough performance and capacity to satisfy my needs.
This is a beautiful machine. Extremely thin but very sturdy feeling. Wonderfully light even with required accessories. A terrific screen and keyboard that are a pleasure during all day use. Good battery life (about 4 hours in my case). Good processor and graphics power for mainstream business applications. Adequate disk space but limited disk performance. Barest minumum of ports requires dongles and a usb hub.
While its slower than my Macbook pro, the only times I really notice a difference are:
- Booting the machine takes longer (but I usually only do that a couple times a week)
- Starting some applications takes longer (but once started I can still run a LOT of apps in 2gb even including Parallels)
- True multitasking is limited to one intensive disk or cpu operation at a time (don’t try and use the machine for anything significant while doing a backup, or while ripping a DVD).
So under normal use I was very pleasantly surprised how useable the AIR felt after being used to a PRO. For me the size and weight reduction is definitely worth the performance reduction.
Yes I would like a bigger, faster hard drive, but next year 120gb 5400rpm single platter units should be available. Yes I would like a built in ethernet port, but I’m not willing to pay a big form factor price to avoid the $29 dongle. Yes I would like 2-3 USB ports, but Targus makes some really tiny 4 port hubs for now.
I’m honestly not sure I would make any different design choices, and technology progress will take care of the only thing I’ve found to be occasionally very limiting (disk size and performance).
Spectacular
I am using this as a replacement for my iMac which I moved to the office. This computer is the best laptop I have ever owned (the first Mac), and I am in love with the operating system. I dont have to worry about viruses or other nonsense like that like I use to have to deal with all the time with my old Dell laptop. Plus its so light I can take it anywhere!
The only thing I don’t like about it is that it doesn’t have a firewire port. However, all in all I am very happy and could not have imagined a more perfect computer.
Great so far
i just purchased this computer a week ago so i suppose things could change but at this point the computer has been great. The portability was a huge factor for me as it should be for anybody contemplating the purchase of this laptop. As a student i don’t really need this computer for much more than word documents, internet, email, itunes, and the occasional movie/youtube video. Speed has not been an issue - something i wasn’t sure about as i almost purchased the SSD option. Fortunately i didn’t and this has been fine. I ordered the superdrive just in case though i havn’t used it yet. For installing microsoft office i used the remote disc drive and that worked absolutely fine. So far the fan/overheating problem that other people were talking about hasn’t been an issue and the temp does get warm, but not hot enough to get laggy or be uncomfortable. So far my two nitpicks are that the battery isn’t great - 4+ hours of internet/itunes if the screen brightness is down all the way… but i like to keep the brightness at at least 50%. The other thing is that the screen hinge design doesn’t allow the screen to go very far back. As far as the port limitations go the only thing i use is audio jack, usb, and ethernet at school but there’s wifi too. I did order the ethernet dongle just in case. An ethernet cable and maybe one more usb (tho that too isn’t too big of a deal for me) would be nice, but still, i’m totally happy with my purchase 
Tags: 2 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, Apple MacBook Air MB003LL/A 13.3" Laptop (1.6 GHz Intel