MacBook Air is an ultra portable laptop that brought a new style of slimness and modern design for stylish expensive ultra portable laptops. First MacBook Air was released in January 2007. It created a lot of Buzz in Web and it was criticized by many laptop experts. This year Apple announced the new revamped Mac Air or the new version in October 14th 2008. The main changes have come about the laptop’s guts like processor, memory, hard drive, graphics card and ports.
About the updated Mac Air, you will find many reviews in Web that it will take a lot of time to read all of them. Here I have tried to collect 45 notes (22 the good sides and 23 bad sides) of new Mac Air that different reviews have mentioned here in one entry to help you to get more real idea about Mac Air.
MacBook Air is available in two models: The base model with the price of $1800 and the top model with the price of $2500.
I have collected the following information from Engadget (Air review), Engadget (Air Rev. B mini- review), PC world, Computer world, and Macworld.
I like MacBook Air Because of
1- Stylish modern sleek sturdy unibody design
2- It's the thinnest laptop ever.
3- The top model with 128GB SSD is cheaper than the Air laptop went on sale with 64GB SSD in January.
4- Faster Intel Core 2 Duo processor used in top model with 6MB of Level 2 cache and 1,066-MHzFSB (60 MHz faster than the 1.8-GHz processor used in the previous iteration)
5- Faster DDR3 RAM (still just 2GB à dislike)
6- The bigger storage: the base model comes with 120GB hard drive and the top model sports faster 128GB SSD. Both storages are 50% bigger the storages used in the first-gen Air laptops.
7- Falling SSD prices help more users to purchase Air laptop with SSD storage and get the benefit of faster booting up, and faster launching program (compared to 4,200-rpm hard drive used in first-gen Air).
8- The overall performance of the new version is 4 times faster than the previous iteration
9- The bright glossy vibrant LED screen with 1280-by-800-pixel resolution is big enough to read on
10- The new NVIDIA graphics Nvidia 9400M graphics is a single chip that has been designed for laptops and smaller computing devices and it performs up to five times faster graphics performance than Intel's Centrino 2 chip (or four times the 3-D gaming performance of the last model with integrated graphics).
11- Full-size keyboard on a slim small laptop
12- Keyboard is solid and sturdy and the keys are tactile. So you can easily have a long touch-typing on Mac Air
13- The keys are backlit
14- It is a cool laptop and you can easily put it on the lap and use it for long time
15- Integrated 802.11n wireless works well
16- The Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR as a standard option is also nice
17- Power adapter is small and light enough for carrying
18- The multi-touch trackpad is practical and easy to learn and use
19 - Built-in iSight is a nice feature
20- Apple has released an update to fix several issues to improve the stability of MacBook Air (Late 2008) computers.
21- The new Air with 12GB SSD takes only 28 seconds to boot up from Mac chime to desktop.
22- The new Air with 128GB SSD launches applications very fast. For instance, it launched Adobe Photoshop Elements in 8 seconds.
I dislike Mac Air because of:
1- The external optical drive comes with some wired power requirements. Also, you have to buy the optical drive separately.
2- Lack of many of the features that are necessary or even sometimes vital for corporate users
3- The new version doesn’t come with new power-efficient and lower-heat 45nm Penryn chip.
4- The display comes only with glossy finish and there is no Matte option
5- With this glossy display you can not work outside or near a window
6- It comes only with a tinny mono speaker
7- Lack of 3G connectivity for option
8- Lack of an ExpressCard slot
9- Having only one USB port
10-no FireWire,
11-no Ethernet,
12- The Sturdy foldable door doesn’t open while sitting on the table
13- The battery is integrated; Lack of replaceable battery is annoying
14- The integrated battery and its short life time keeps you tight to the outlet and make the Light Air some unusable for the road warriors.
15- The average battery runtime with mild use is about three hours which is yet far from the 5 hours battery life that Apple has promised (with Apple estimating the Air will last thoroughly 4.5 hours when the screen brightness turned down by half and Wi-Fi on and it will last only between 2 and 2.5 hours runtime when playing videos or watching a movie).
16- “The Air's MagSafe implementation won't always work with your current MagSafe adapters simply because the angle and location make it physically impossible to accommodate when used on a table”.
17-The USB port won't often adapt the 3G modems and some flash drives without a USB extension cable
18- Even, headphone port doesn’t sometimes adjust easily and you have to find a matched audio extension cable that will increase your expense naturally.
19- Non-standard mini-DisplayPort rather than the equally obscure micro-DVI
20- With this new display port, you’ll need an adapter if you're planning to use the laptop with anything but Apple's new 24" LED monitor.
21- With some strain on Air, the system goes some slow-down
22- Playing 3D games is some a far matter
23- A lot of complaint against several issues about the stability of MacBook Air
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