
The net is full of pages with reviews on the MacBook Air and increasingly the verdict seems to justify the shortcomings of this laptop. Many feel, it's just another fancy package and not meant for the hardcore office person. Others feel it's a beauty with minor blemishes that can be concealed with a little pancake. One man's medicine is another man's poison; so it's best that I give you the pros and the cons on the machine and then you decide for yourself. The Air features a Core 2 Duo chip housed in specially designed package and small motherboard so that the package remains svelte. The LCD screen is backlit with LEDs, thus saving battery plus the screen gets dimmer, much lower than CCFL screens for additional battery. Specs read: Wireless N/B/G, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, and is available in two basic configurations: $1799 for a 1.6GHz chip, plus 2GB of RAM and a 80GBs 4200 RPM Drive. And for $3098, you can get a 1.8GHz chip with the same 2GB of RAM and a 64GB solid state drive module that, like all SSD, is shock resistant. The first flip side on the Air is that it doesn't have an Ethernet port, only a USB to Ethernet jack that can be bought separately. The second flip is that there is no optical drive, save the $99 optional external. Also it does not support 3G cellular data, however it looks like that Apple did consider adding it but size constrains made them chuck the idea. Also (quite ironically) they did not want to restrict the consumers to one carrier.
Will the MacBook Air go down on the Top 10 Apple products, or will it slide down the rubbish chute? You decide and let us know with your comments.
You can catch the complete review on the MacBook Air here.