Comments on: MacWorld Highlights: MacBook Air a Winner http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/macworld-highlights-macbook-air-a-winner/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Sun, 27 May 2012 18:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ian Bell http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/macworld-highlights-macbook-air-a-winner/#comment-60150 Ian Bell Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:08:04 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-60150 The MacBook Air has a ton of problems.<br /> <br /> 1) It's way overpriced ($3K for a SSD version???)<br /> <br /> 2) No ethernet<br /> <br /> 3) No optical drive (I dont want to carry an external drive)<br /> <br /> I love the design and I think it's great what Apple is trying to achieve, but they went too far IMO. It reminds me of the cell phone manufacturers that started making these super tiny phones, too small for anyone to use. Then they companies realized this and stopped doing it. Apple could be in the same situation if they are not careful.<br /> <br /> The Sony X505 laptop is thinner from what I understand, and includes all the ports you would want. The MacBook Air has a ton of problems.

1) It's way overpriced ($3K for a SSD version???)

2) No ethernet

3) No optical drive (I dont want to carry an external drive)

I love the design and I think it's great what Apple is trying to achieve, but they went too far IMO. It reminds me of the cell phone manufacturers that started making these super tiny phones, too small for anyone to use. Then they companies realized this and stopped doing it. Apple could be in the same situation if they are not careful.

The Sony X505 laptop is thinner from what I understand, and includes all the ports you would want.

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