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TIHZ, I’m not saying the dang thing is perfect… BUT, it makes sense that the biggest user of power in a laptop is the DVD drive. Watching movies on a laptop doesn’t make sense unless you can plug it in… ie, you aren’t going anywhere.
The Macbook Air isn’t the ultimate business laptop either, but it will certainly fill a niche where portability is more important than superfluous features (there’s a tiny USB-RJ45 if you really need one), and trips aren’t more than 5 hours between charging opportunities. That’s if you leave it on the whole time. Not everyone does that, or wants to do that.
The battery can be changed in 3 minutes with a philips screwdriver if you want to do it yourself. Having a removable battery would have added substantial thickness and more weight, and at that point you may as throw in a DVD since there’s room… defeating the uniqueness of the product and positioning it as just another laptop.
Argue all you want T_H, sales will tell the truth. BTW, I don’t own a laptop and haven’t a need for one.
Ah, yes… the “closing a deal with a DVD ploy”.
Hold on. Just another 10 minutes and I’ll have a DVD of the 56k Word contract for you. It’s so much simpler than me emailing you a PDF.
It’s too expensive. Add the 64GB SSD drive and it’s extremely prohibitive.
No optical drive. This means you have to beg others to let you install a software Apple gave you on their PC so you have access to their drive.
No ethernet port. That makes the Remote Disk software useless if the PC you’re trying to connect to doesn’t have wireless.
Only 1 USB port. So you’ll need a USB hub, one more thing to carry around… that’s not portability
Battery not user Replaceable Unlike 99% of other laptops out there, the battery is not user replaceable.
Mono Speakers The built in speakers on the Macbook Air are weak and sound airy (sorry) from the hands-on videos so far. Worst of all, they’re mono, not stereo! Are we back in the 90s?
Fixed RAM The Macbook Air ships with 2GB of RAM by default. This RAM is onboard though, meaning there is no option to upgrade or to add more RAM.
Slow Processor 1.6 C2D by default is amongst the slowest Core 2 Duo processors you can get.
Slow 1.8? Hard drive The base model comes with a 1.8? hard drive. As most computer enthusiasts know, 1.8? hard drives top out at 4,200rpm