David H Dennis

Defending Apple's MacBook Air

I agree with most of what you've said, but want to add that the Air is plenty powerful for what most people want to do. It wasn't too long ago that people were editing video and doing advanced special effects on PowerMac G5s, which are about the same speed as the Air.

Any web, email, word processing or spreadsheet user is not going to notice a difference in performance between the Air and even a current MacBook Pro.

I think the fuss is mainly about jealousy and desire. Those of us who will buy MacBook Pros will be unhappy there's a system in Apple's line that will produce more admiring glances. Those of us who will buy MacBooks miss the cool lines of the Air.

But if there are people who are jealous of this thing, and its price is not miserable, I'm sure there are even more people who will buy it. I need the big screen of the MacBook Pro, but it it wasn't for that I might well get one. I last used my PowerBook's optical drive a couple of months ago, and for that I could easily use remote drive, and I strongly suspect many others are in the same boat.

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