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Old 01-17-2008, 02:07 PM
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The thinness and multi-touch trackpad are neat, but overall, I'm pretty underwhelmed. Non-user-replaceable battery and on-board RAM? No thanks.

My next computer will be a black MacBook, methinks.
I LIKE the concept, but it does not come close to my MacBook Pro in term of speed and power, so far it does not seem to have a lot of options to speed things up, that said I think it will sell well and they will make faster and more powerful editions
It even falls short of the bottom of the line MacBook. The CPU clock is 1.6 GHz (1.8 optional) compared to 2.0 for the low end MacBook. While they have the same size hard drive the MacBook Air is 4200 RPM compared to 5400 RPM, and it costs $700 more. The higher end MacBooks run at 2.2 GHz and have larger drives and still cost less than the MacBook Air.
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