MacBook Air

Well as a lot of you will know by now the new MacBook Air has been unvielled, is it what you were expecting?

 

Initially I wasn’t too impressed, sure it looks great, I don’t think anyone can deny that, but I had a few serious issues with some of the features, like the lack of optical drive, how will I watch DVD’s or install software? Oh I can BUY and external CD/DVD drive, what is this, 1996? Oh I can use someone elses disc drive on their computer, mmmmm real handy!!!!!

 

But then after calming down a little and thinking about it whilst in the car I can’t actually remember the last time I used the disc drive in my laptop, apart from to burn the CD I was listening to at that time in the car, which there wasn’t really any need for as I have an iTrip in glovebox, and hey I didn’t grumble when they lost the floppy drive on imacs all those years ago. mmmmmm Apple 1 Pedros 0.

 

The other problem I had was the drop down ports, now don’t get me wrong they make for a very slick looking lappy when they’re hidden away but I know for a fact I would break them in a week, laptops are supposed to be strong and robust as they’re being lugged around all the time, moving ports I’m afraid just aren’t working for me. Apple 1 Pedros 1.

 

I’ve also had a couple of problems getting my head around the idea of flicking the trackpad when I want to go forward or back through safari, I can imagine whilst browsing a website being thrown back to the last site I viewed without wanting to.  Having said that I’ve not used it so it may be ok it’s pretty effective on the iPhone and I’m sure you can turn it off. Apple 2 Pedros 1.

 

Finally I reckon they’ve comprimised a fair amount of performance to make it that thin an 80GB hard drive for something with no DVD burner sounds a little bit small to me, and with heat issues, processors are pretty middle of the road, I know its a MacBook and not a MacBook Pro but the pros will be due an overhaul before long and middle of the road now will seem pretty low tech then. Apple 2 Pedros 2.

 

So who wants one, well actually for all my gripes they aren’t major issues, and as someone who buys things for their aesthetic as well as performance I would quite like one really, lets face it I’m not going to go and buy a PC am I, and it would look damn good next to my iMac. Grrrrrrrr Apple 3 Pedros 2. You win Jobs!!!!!!!