Comments on: MacBook Air's thinness, flash drive point to notebook future

Its basic concept--a relatively high-performance notebook PC in an incredibly thin and lightweight package--will be copied by all the major notebook suppliers.

[ludwig1000]

SSD is certainly the way of the future. But who needs extremely thin laptops, if one has to compromise on basic features like having a firewire port, or multiply usb ports, or Ethernet? The "thin" is really more of a gimmick than anything else...

[john55440]

The notebook of the future is "the superslim ThinkPad X300" by Lenovo.

The feature-crippled MacBook Air doesn't cut it.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_08/b4072042350389.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_computers

[MaLvaDo39]

You don't get it then. Any feature you absolutely need that is not in the MacBookAir is found in the MacBook or MacBook Pro.

The Air is about mobility.

[Viv Collins]

In 1996 laptop connectivity was considered to be a floppy disk! modems and network connections were not included and were very definitely considered and sold as extras.

Why do you consider hardwire connections to be a good thing for a device specifically designed to be portable?

[eCurmudgeon]

What about the life of the SSD's flash memory? Isn't it shorter than a hard disk?

[nrwareham]

ive been using my macbook air everyday since it arrived last wednesday and i haven't missed the lack of optical drive; plus, the 1 usb port is all i need. The actual running of the macbook has been really good, not as slow as everyone says it is, i couldn't tell the difference in speed from a macbook and macbook air