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Title: Cisco Cheng review of the 11" Macbook Air
Post by: gunug on October 22, 2010, 01:56:31 PM

I think that Cisco Cheng is about as unbiased a tech pundit as you can find on the PC magazine staff but he's not jumping up and down with enthusiam for the new 11" Macbook Air:

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Some even called it the answer to the then rising netbook  market, albeit costing three times more. The MacBook Air (11-inch) ($1,199 direct), Apple's latest entry into the ultraportable space, is no netbook, even though it's the closest the company has come to making one. It's strikingly thinner than the original MacBook Air, with a screen two sizes smaller. Although Apple found a way to squeeze in two USB ports and a speedy solid-state drive (SSD), the MacBook Air (11-inch) is not nearly as feature-packed or as fast as the rest of the MacBook family, yet it'll cost you just as much. Still, it will give the latest batch of Consumer Ultra Low Voltage (CULV) laptops a run for their money.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371199,00.asp

I suppose I'm grateful that I don't have $1,100 to go out and spend on this thing and it's not likely that anyone's going to award me with one for my excellent way of fixing computers but don't we think that this is getting just a little bit silly?  It is necessarily a good idea to do something just because we can even though I'm sure that they'll sell a bunch of them to the wunderkinders with more money than sense.  Before you buy try !

Title: Cisco Cheng review of the 11" Macbook Air
Post by: krissel on October 26, 2010, 03:08:35 AM

Benchmark tests.

http://www.macworld.com/article/154596/201...l?lsrc=rss_main