With all the hype around the Macbook Air, we’re blind to see that this laptop although is an amazing piece of engineering, it is utter crap! Why?
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It’s too expensive. Add the 64GB SSD drive and it’s extremely prohibitive.
- No optical drive. This means you have to beg others to let you install a software Apple gave you on their PC so you have access to their drive.
- No ethernet port. That makes the Remote Disk software useless if the PC you’re trying to connect to doesn’t have wireless.
- Only 1 USB port. So you’ll need a USB hub, one more thing to carry around… that’s not portability
- Battery not user Replaceable Unlike 99% of other laptops out there, the battery is not user replaceable.
- Mono Speakers The built in speakers on the Macbook Air are weak and sound airy (sorry) from the hands-on videos so far. Worst of all, they’re mono, not stereo! Are we back in the 90s?
- Fixed RAM The Macbook Air ships with 2GB of RAM by default. This RAM is onboard though, meaning there is no option to upgrade or to add more RAM.
- Slow Processor 1.6 C2D by default is amongst the slowest Core 2 Duo processors you can get.
- Slow 1.8″ Hard drive The base model comes with a 1.8″ hard drive. As most computer enthusiasts know, 1.8″ hard drives top out at 4,200rpm
- It’s too thin! I would not drop it, or stand on it !!
Macbook Air, what a disappointment …
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