MacBook Air

MacBook Air

MacBook Air

We've established in previous articles that whilst I like the design and unique features of many Apple products my opinion of replacing all the PC's in my life with Apple Macs isn't a thought that I relish. That having been said, it would seem almost rude not to take a look at the Apple MacBook air which was released just a couple of months ago.I have provided a picture with this article as to say that this laptop is thin simply wouldn't do the machine justice; in actual fact the unit is 0.76" (1.93cm) at its thickest point and an amazing 0.19" (0.4cm) at its thinnest. Quite simply it looks absolutely gorgeous, and I can clearly see the target market being wealthy Londoners who want something vogue to show off in their local Starbucks.Rather unsurprisingly, the small size comes with a couple of drawbacks; mainly price and functionality. The former comes in the way of a 1,199 asking price and the latter hits you with a number of potentially deal breaking omissions in regards to the feature set.For example, the MacBook Air is devoid of any kind of disc drive, like a CD/DVD-ROM drive - If you needed to load or save documents to or move files from an external source then you can use a wireless network, a USB drive or an external drive (CD/DVD Rewriter). In addition there are many fairly standard ports and features absent including a security slot, Ethernet and modem port and with no space for card expansions like Cardbus or ExpressCard. A lot of these shortcomings would be forgivable but in addition you only get one USB slot, meaning you will require an external hub if you wanted to connect more than one USB device at once.I appreciate these absences are to save space and reduce the weight of our skinny little friend, so I won't refer to them as 'design flaws' they are just the price you pay for the size and weight. With this in mind if you needed such features then it might be worth considering whether the Macbook Air is correct choice for you.I won't dwell on the negatives as there is an equally large amount of praise that can be given in what Apple have managed to achieve in this unit asides from just the small form factor.This laptop houses a rather beefy and reduced size Intel Core 2 Duo processor which can be obtained in both 1.6 and 1.8Ghz speeds and is shipped with a very reasonable 2Gb of RAM. The graphics card is a competent Intel GMA X3100 processor which shares 144Mb of the main system RAM, and the wireless network card supports the draft of a new high speed 'Wireless n' standard.The hard drive is a rather tiny, but potentially sufficient 80Gb and comes with the choice of a 64Gb SSD (Solid State Drive) which can be used to boost performance. Extra unforeseen features like a large touchpad that supports mouse gestures, an integrated camera, backlit keyboard and a moderately large, glossy 13.3 inch display will abruptly makes this machine look all that much more attractive.A product like the MacBook air isn't one that you can really praise or criticise too heavily as it will completely polarise opinions of the end user based on their specific needs. If you're looking for a product to keep around the home that is going to offer you value for money, staggering performance and bucket loads of upgrade potential then you couldn't do much worse in your choice of laptop than this. On the other hand, if the time you don't spend on the road or in the air is spent in fashionable and trendy wine bars and happen to have a four figure sum burning a hole in your back pocket then the MacBook Air is the certainly product you've been waiting for.

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