Ars Technica Reviews the Macbook Air (HD Version)
I’m amazed. Looking at the pic above, the Macbook Air makes the plain jane black Macbook look like a notebook from the 1990s. Ars Technica has released a very timely review of the Macbook Air.
The bottom line according to Ars, it’s a beautiful, thin notebook, but suffers from poor performance and battery life.
One way to look at the MacBook Air is as the largest and most capable iPod in Apple’s line—think of it as an iPod touch Extreme with a built-in keyboard. It is not meant to be your only or main computer—rather, it’s a secondary (or even tertiary) computer. It has to be, because it depends on the presence of at least one other computer in order to install anything from an optical drive, unless you buy an external optical drive. Because of this, the MacBook Air is more an extension of your computing life than an entity of its own. Like an iPod, it’s not meant to be relegated to your home office day in and day out—you can do it, but that wouldn’t be taking advantage of its intended portability.
I can see a lot of thin-notebook obsessed users buying this thing. But as a general use notebook, I think the Macbook fills this niche rather nicely.
[Photo from Ars Technica]
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Most of the complantes I’ve seen about the Air have been about the lack of the CD/DVD dive and/or it’s lack of computing power. It was never ment to be a desktop replacement like the MacBook Pros but for those times when you need something much lighter then a MacBook but more powerful then a iPhone. I see it being mainly used by people who travel a lot and need a laptop of presentations and the like but don’t do a lot of heavy computer work while on the road.