Originally Posted by
GadgetFreak
Seriously indeed. People should save getting riled up like this for important topics like strippers.
My current high speed data is either WiFi or USB modem (Verizon EvDO). I can also BT tether. Neither should be a problem with the Air. Basically, compared to my 13in PB Im giving up a USB port, a Firewire I never use, the capacity for a spare battery which I dont carry and an internal optical drive that I seldom use. Im also giving up the ability to carry the roughly 120 gb of music and Canon Raw images I have on my current PB which has a 200 gb drive. Im gaining not carrying 2 pounds. That is an easy trade for me. The smaller size is also nice. Well, actually Im not giving that stuff up since I will have the PB and can carry that if I need the hard drive space for some reason. Or put everything on there onto a 250 gb USB drive which weighs a couple onces and I can carry or not. Im pretty happy with the trade offs. It looks from the reviews above that the guts, CPU an bus, stuff like that are good. I can finesse the rest for the weight advantage.
Cool, as I said - I hope it does what you need it to do.
I guess that it just seems to me that with the Air, Apple was more concerned with the rather arbitrary title of "world's thinnest" and ignored some very important issues about functionality.
Looking at some other 3 lb laptops currently out there from Sony, Toshiba, etc. it looks like Apple could have made the Air just a little bit thicker and then included some of the more important missing ports and a user replaceable battery [perhaps even a slot-loading DVD drive].