The MacBook Air has never exactly been a simple product to review. Since the laptop's launch back in the heady days of 2008, we've always considered it a niche, high-end product and much less a mainstream system. Originally, the wafer-thin (and somewhat underpowered) laptop sold for a...
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Apple said it would never make a netbook, and it hasn't. The 11-inch MacBook Air is a powerful ultraportable that makes other systems in its class look positively bloated. More important, this machine never keeps you waiting, thanks to the way it uses flash memory. We just wish the hinge for...
Read the full review →Personally, my ideal MacBook Air would offer 256GB of storage in the 11.6-in. model -- and a backlit keyboard. In the meantime, this one should fit the bill quite nicely, particularly for anyone who wants a small and lightweight laptop that offers well-balanced performance on the go and looks good...
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bijansabet
I picked up the new MacBook Air 11” yesterday. Lots of folks aren’t interested in the 11”. The battery life isnt as good as the 13” model, the processor is slower and there isn’t a built in SD-card slot. And I wouldn’t recommend this model as your one and only...
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naz
I can honestly say it is one of the best Mac's I've ever used. It's lighting fast, despite having a 1.6 Core 2 Duo inside. The resolution is great, 4GB of ram and the SSD hard drive give this little laptop an edge over a higher spec machines and it's obvious when you load up...
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lovedecake
This machine is almost perfect. It's stupidly lightweight, crazy fast, super quiet and surprisingly capable. I don't miss the optical drive that I lost when switching from my old juggernaut of a laptop, though I did buy the external SuperDrive. Mac OS X is the best Operating System I've ever...
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therichad
I love this laptop. It is super portable and has all the power I need to do my work. Just an all around awesome laptop!
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