|  The Macbook air is a designing feat, being the world's thinnest laptop ever. Measuring in at about .90 of an inch, the Macbook air can't have the power of a desktop, or even a good laptop, right? If you travel a ton, and don't mind losing your laptop in a small stack of papers, the macbook air might seem like a possibility to consider, but if you don't mind the already thin Macbook or Macbook pro, go for the Macbook or Macbook pro.
Buying a Macbook air means forfeiting many features, including a major step back in processing power, a step down in hard drive space, A hard to replace battery, and a CD slot! Having to plug in a large external disc drive sort of loses the whole "Super portable" effect. The processing power is a mere 1.6 - 1.8 Ghz, the hard drive a small 64 - 80 GB (depending onn which processing power you choose, the smaller processing power for the bigger hard drive), and the CD slot is external, costs an extra $99 AND is not as thin as the notebook. The Powerbook goes from 2.4 to 2.6 Ghz of processing power, and up to a 300 GB hard drive. The macbook has 2.1 to 2.4 Ghz of power, way better, a whole 0.8 Ghz of power bonus on average.
Sure, the macbook air can connect to the internet wirelessly, but the internet will be very slow. The macbook air also comes with 2 GB of RAM standard, and you can't upgrade to 4 GB, or get a discount and down-grade to 1 GB, so the Macbook Air is not so stretchable, either. When buying your macbook air, you will have to settle for very few options. No RAM options, and if you settle for the slower processing power, you get an 80 GB hard drive, still not very impressive. You get your selection of apps to choose from pre-installed, but if you install Logic Express, Final Cut express, and Aperture, not to mention the pro loaded iLife, and Leopard, plus Microsoft office and/or the iWork suite, are you going to have any room on the hard drive for large movie documents? You better but an external hard drive with that. Are the external hard drives really all that portable? What about your iTunes music library? Do you want some music? All of a sudden, your hard drive seems full. I will just buy storage online, for when I am on the go! You buy .Mac for $99 dollars and buy extra memory online for $10 a GB. Wow, things do add up quick!
Now I better go buy some more software, I want the Adobe Creative Suite, after all. Wait! I don't have enough Hard drive space for that. Oh well, I guess I will just work with what I have. The Macbook Air is not the way to go, because if it was really all that portable, it wouldn't need an external disc drive, a spare hard drive, and all the other things that I need to speed up my computer. Still though, the macbook air is in my book not nearly as bad as Vista, but that is just my personal opinion.
In A world without walls and doors, who needs Windows and Gates?
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