The MacBook Air is the newest addition to Apple's notebook product pipeline. I am not going to attempt to do a technology review on the MacBook Air as that has already been done by so many others. What I am going to review is the overall idea with some of the features along with my opinion. The MacBook Air is Apple's addition to the arena of sub-notebooks. I think that this computer market is not nearly as big as the current 15 inch to 17+ inch standard notebooks.
The feature that ranks highest on my chart is the multi-touch pad. Although I think that they should have taken this technology from their iPhone further on the MacBook Air however this multi-touch pad is still new to the market.
On the bottom of my feature chart is the fact that the MacBook Air does not come with a internal drive bay. Apple calls this "Remote Disc". Basically it is the same as mapping a drive from a local network PC to the another PC. The reason I think that this feature is horrible is because most people will feel intimidated and therefore not buy the MacBook Air. In my opinion Apple should have made the Air a little thicker and included one of their internal Super-Drives to make a more complete product. I don't think that most people traveling would want to carry around an external drive bay and would rather opt to have a notebook that is a little thicker with the basic features.
In my opinion Apple would have made a better addition to their current product lineup by announcing at least a tablet notebook; if not a multi-touch display only notebook, such as the OMPC. This is a topic that many others are talking about on the net and we can only hope that Apple provides what its customers want.
If you have an opinion or would like to link a review of the MacBook Air to this post please do in the comments.
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