Why I don’t want a MacBook Air
Apple constantly makes me drool, I am an admitted Apple fanboy.
Just about every product they come out with, or announce, I want to get.
Even with all its limitations I considered running out and getting an AppleTV, I didn’t, I thought about it.
The MacBook Air is the first Apple product in a long time that I just really don’t want.
Don’t get me wrong, it looks really slick and the screen is beautiful. I can’t by any means say it’s a bad machine, it’s just got some limitations that I’ve dealt with before on “ultra-portable laptops”.
The biggest thing for me is no optical drive.
I had a laptop a couple of years ago that had no optical drive (external one), and it was just flat out a pain in the ars.
Sure they play it up that you don’t need it ’cause it has built in 802.11n and they have a way for you to access your drive on another machine (which, you could do before anyway), but for me that won’t cut it.
I deal with a lot of people and a lot of people still give me things on CD / DVD, I don’t want to wait until I get home to load these up, especially if it’s business related.
Then there are CDs and movies. Granted most of my media is ripped, but the thing only has an 80 gig drive on it, so it’s not like I’ll be able to store my whole library on there. Plus, because I don’t like to deal with DRM, I still buy CDs and DVDs and then rip those, so I wouldn’t be able to do that on the road.
No Firewire
I do some multimedia stuff, so most of my external drives are Firewire, I guess enough said about that one.
No Ethernet
Uhh.. did I miss something? Is there no Ethernet port on this thing?
Don’t get me wrong, for the right person this might be a SWEET device, but for me it’s just not going to cut it.
Until the entire world is covered by WiFi, or until they add the ability to get on the cell network, I think the device is just way too limiting.
I’ll just stick with my “old school” MacBook. 
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