First MacBook Air Reviews In, and They're Not Entirely Positive {Switched.com}

Jan 26th 2008 3:15AM I have noticed no reviews for the ssd model. The optical drive problem is solved for 99 bucks. There is no laptop with a great battery that will last forever, or its more like a desktop with a handle, and i know of nobody with a laptop who carries a spare battery. The usb can be solved by a hub. You are going to get a case for the laptop, so having a few peripherals and carrying them with you won't be an issue. The issue is going to be the disk space. If you notice the time machine is shipping out just in time so you can't return you mac book air when the time capsule gets here. I have a mac book pro now, pretty new, and use a lacie 500 gig external hard drive for my iTunes media. You can't use it wirelessly by plugging into an airport and download music or movied. You can watch them and everything works great once they are there, but you must be wired to download, will this remain true to the air and time capsule, certainly i hope not. I am going to ask apple to hold my air and ship the same time as the time capsule, because i go the ssd model, so i am going to have to keep my iTunes and iPhoto data on the time capsule. I have to know this will work correct. Also at first i was planning on selling my mac book pro, but the more i read, these MBP's are basically a desktop replacement, so i might just set it up on my desk at home and use as a desktop replacement and use the air, for all my computing, which amount to internet browsing, iMovie, iDvd, Toast Titanium, Office 08, and iTunes and iPhoto. So something is going to have to give drive wise, so iTunes and iPhoto must be able to live on the time capsule, or more than likely it will get returned. But just like everything else apple makes, its so sexy and hard to resist. I just hope you can download iTunes and import photos to iPhoto straight to the time capsule. If this can be done. You air has a tera byte harddrive in its home network, so it could possible be a total replacement for the Mac Book Pro, but beware, you have 14 days to return the air, and the time capsule ships 14 days after the air. I don't believe in coincidences. So beware, maybe ask apple like me to ship them together so you have both, cause if you bough one without the other you aren't too smart, and if you get them shipped together 14 days of computing will probably give you a chance to do everything you do with you computer, so you can give the air a full testdrive, and still have the ability to return it. Cause i can tell you now, get a mac book pro, and you have the best computer in the world hand down. There is nothing this machine can't do, and it isn't that big either, maybe an inch or slightly over the entire front to back, and you won't be sorry or be lacking anything with it. But get the air, spend the money for the solid state drive, you are giving up a little hardrive, but 80 gigs isn't enough anyway, the timecapsule is going to have to be your harddrive, and it is suppossed to be able to be. Watch out for the return policy and the difference in ship date and you should be able to test drive a air, without risk. But the newest technology is the flash hard drives, or ssd's and the air with the 1.8 mhz and ssd harddrive, should be pretty fast, i don't care what the pro's are saying, i don't think there will be a noticable loss of speed between a mac book pro and a ssd air with the time capsule. Wirelesss N should serve songs and photos, plenty fast, and you are more than likely already storing them on an external harddrive, unless you spung for a monster harddrive in you mac book pro, I went with 160, and i couldn't fit all my iTunes library (which is huge). My photos are still on local drive, but they are growing in size and going to have to move to external drive soon. I think the top end ssd air is worth a try, i wouldn't bother if your not going to take advantage of the drive. That means aboslutely no moving pieces inside you air, so really nothing to break.
Geaux Tigers and apple keep it up... Keep on rockin in the free world...