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Excellent Light Laptop

Dec 30, 2008

Rating: 10 out of 10 (Perfect)
Pros: Light, Bright Screen, Multi-Touch, Snappy Performance, Good Battery Life
Cons: Track Pad not the same as new Macbooks/ Pros
Opinion:
I have been using a Macbook Air 1.86 with a 128 SSD for about 3 weeks. Compared to the Mac Pro 2.33 this replaced, the 1.86 Air has much better performance, much better screen, much better battery life, and is not such a chore to lug around. For me, this is the best laptop out there, as it has the features of an ultra-light, the power of a larger laptop, and OSX. I don't miss the optical drive and other items that others seem to be concerned about since they just add weight. I have a super drive on my desk, which is used infrequently. Wish it had the single trackpad without the button, though.

In use, multi-touch gestures are really terrific, and simplify my workflow without even thinking about it. Parallels 4.0 with XP works well with AutoCAD. Office 2008 loads up much more quickly. Before buying, I was concerned about the lack of power (only 1.86 gHz), the amount disk space and speed. After testing it out, I will use this as my primary computer.