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Old February 15th, 2008, 12:33 PM
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Guess I must be the only person that has a MacBookAir....

Here is some more after a few days of professional and personal use.

Good
I have used MacBook Pro's and MacBooks in Gn and Intel flavours. The Air is surprisingly cooler than the rest.

Its soo light it does not pain the laps, even after 2 hours. Actually, I caught myself checking if I had not forgotten it more than once!

I got over 3 hours full usage on full batteries. Hard disk spinning continuously. Upon death it actually does a safe shutdown that recovers when power is available again.

It fits in my document pouch - 1 less item to carry to my meetings.

The transformer is smaller than other models.

It is dead quiet, cannot hear the disc or the fan when they operate. Good for bed time emails.

Less good
The trackpad's single finger action is too sensitive, you find yourself selecting things unwantedly. I had to deactivate it but left the 2 finger actions on, as well as swipe which is great for browsing big documents.

The USB port is somewhat cumbersome. It is connected to a door that swings open. Problem is, the door swings close when you try to connect a USB device. So you have to give the insert USB ove some attention.

The remote DVD is prone to difficulties when the disc is piracy protected. I eventually opted for a copy from DVD to local HD and install from there.

Very bad
The "apple" key is, like on the new keyboards, called "command"
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