The MacBook Air has no clothes | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com

Link: The MacBook Air has no clothes | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com. The MacBook Air is just not having a good day. First, it gets hacked at a security convention; and, now, a high profile Apple reviewer pans it. The reviewer complains about the slow performance of the notebook, and the slow performance of Parallels. He has to have Windows XP (here's a thought, buy a Dell), and it is a no brainer that you should buy hardware last, and the software you want to use first. In any event, the MacBook Air lacks enough ports, has an underpowered CPU, and is limited to an 80 gig hard drive. What's to like?

Comments

[Norcross]

Besides looking cool? Not much. I just don't understand the "I can run Windows on a Mac!" arguement as being a good thing. Layering one OS on top of another just seems like a resource waster.

Not to mention the unresolved issue of solid state drives that fail. All SSD devices (USB stick, SD card, etc) have a finite read/write cycle, so what to do when the drive fails? Pay Apple to replace?

[Kevin O'Keefe]

I've had a MacBook Air for just shy of a month and I love it. And I'm no the only lawyer - Ernie Svenson (Ernietheattorney.com) has raved about is well.

I commute by ferry and find it fairly amusing to see the Dell's half the size of a desk type unit pulled out and placed on folks' laps. I pull out something the size and depth of a legal pad - and weighing only slightly more.

I know there are lawyers tethered to windows applications. I'm not and for me the Mac Air has been a great fit.