MacBook Air - Review - Conclusions

From Apple’s point of view, the MacBook Air is a product aimed to those “always in movement”, hence the need to sacrifice some very useful components in order to minimize the space. The RAM and processor performances are discreet and sufficiently good for the basic applications and office programs. The PATA disk capacity however, isn’t enough. Although, at least for the version with Solid State Disks, the results are good only due to the noticeable advantages on energy consumption and performance.

The only USB port is definitely not enough, since all the expansion optionals have to be connected to it. The lack of an Ethernet port is also a problem, since the wi-fi connections aren’t available everywhere. Due to its very thin size, it’s understandable why it was needed to avoid the optical unit; however, the Remote Disk configuration would have been better if it could have been more simple. There’s always the alternative of an external USB optical device, of course.

The MacBook Air is a laptop indicated to those who need a second computer to use together with their main one, and those who want discreetly good performances within a rather small solution. The problems with the model remain, and so do their competitors, and the price could also be somewhat of an issuem, especially with cheaper models being available on the market, but the design and the Apple quality are undeniable and make the MacBook Air an interesting notebook.