Hey guys, in case you haven’t seen… there’s a new macbook!
anyway, It looks really nice, but there aren’t much harddrive choices. either a $1000 solid state or a crappy like 50 gig one.
other than that it looks very, very nice.
Besides it being thin my macbook is better than it yet still cheaper. What is so great about everything being thin and light? I’d rather not crack my laptop in half the one time I drop it from two feet off the ground.
“Thinnovation”
It could be a good thin client, literally. 
I’m just glad to see more solid state hard drives hitting the mainstream. The next computer I buy in five years will have one. 
surely if you don’t care about things being thin and light you should buy a desktop instead?
And lug that around everyday? I was just referring to laptops. Thin is good, but there is a limit. If I read it correctly the macbook air doesn’t have CD/DVD drive, why would I want a laptop with out one?
Honestly I think it looks ugly as well.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bashing it or apple in any way. Just giving my honest opinion.
Because you buy all your media digitally with iTunes, of course! 
I don’t like that it doesn’t have a cd/dvd player.
edit: oops i guess that was already posted
That it doesn’t have a user-replaceable battery is unforgivable.
slightly off topic. could you buy a laptop that is preloaded with windows, remove it and put a mac os on it? Because there are better laptops out there than mac’s but the mac os is deffinatly superieor (sp).
Offically, no. However, there are people that have created “hackintoshes” by putting OSX on PCs. It’s totally not supported, and you’re very limited in your choice of device drivers. Not for the faint of heart.
do you know if it is possible to run FCP on Linux? Thats the only reason i want a mac. That computer is mad thin. Looks very breakable…
Wait, with no drive how do you load new software on?
External drive, or over a network, right?
Who buys media? =p
As said before, you could upload stuff with a network or external drive/cd drive, but that’s kind of a hassle for a laptop.
I don’t like it.
Apparently you can put a CD in one of your other computers and it can get the info over the network. I’m sure it takes forever to do that though.
I’m sure the Apple fanboys are masturbating furiously over this new product.
It amazes me how many people put so much energy into building / rebuilding their hardware and software configurations, but don’t actually do anything with their computer.
All in all, it’s just another piece of hardware. Meh. Wake me up when their engineers have come up with a better human-computer interface, or a new programming methodology that prevents crashes.
Well, maybe it will help push the Wireless N networks.
A 100Mb network will have no problem keeping up with a 52x cd-rom. Then again, who runs their network that slow anymore.
Running a 54Mb wireless network may slow down the drive a little while it’s reading information at the outermost portion of the disk.
Of course, you can always plug in a USB drive, so long as nothing else is using the single USB port. Of course, you can get a hub, but carrying all sorts of extra accessories starts to defeat the purpose of an ultra-light portable.
It looks cool, but it’s still too big. I dig the light, but if I’m going to carry around something with a 13" screen I’d rather have something like my Macbook with its 160G drive and optical drive.
I’m just gonna go with the Asus EEEPC, hopefully in a few months… Sure, it’s only 900mhz, 4G hard drive, 7" screen and no optical, but it’s also less than 2 lbs, has more usb slots, an ethernet jack ('cause honestly, sometimes the wireless isn’t gonna cut it), and comes with Linux stock. Oh yeah, the 4G drive is solid state, and the price tag is a good $1400 lower than the Air
I don’t like it either. I love the Mac OS, but apple computers are just so expensive. I really don’t care about how thin my laptop is, I would much rather just have a normal Macbook.
I don’t like how it doesn’t have a replaceable battery, or optical drive.
A decent Apple laptop with the specs that I want will cost about 2000, but I could find a PC with the same specs for less then 1000 easily. Im getting a new mac this summer, I just find it so frustrating how expensive it is, and how they don’t have a good selection of refurbished computers.
I’m almost considering switching back to windows because Im not sure I want to pay 1000 dollars for the operating system.