Apple MacBook Air MB003LL/A 13.3 Inch Laptop (1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive)

I have owned 3 previous Macbooks, and the last one I owned before this one was the the 17in Macbook Pro which was an impressive machine, with an impressive weight. After owning it for a few months I noticed that I would get home and my back would be in agony from carrying so much weight around dally. I decided that was enough was enough, and I went down and I purchased my Macbook Air the day it came out.

The Macbook Air is extremely light, thin and pretty sturdy. My back-pain at the end of the day is gone and in fact I constantly forget I have it on my back... one of the only problems I have had with its size is finding a backpack that doesn't weight more than the air itself (I ended up going with the Buzz by Tom Bihn).

I have edited THOUSANDS of photos in photoshop, put together movies with iMovie and Final Cut Express, written short stories , watched movies with EyeTV and have done pretty much anything I did on my Macbook Pro. That being said, it is a less powerful machine so I will sometimes see freezes, most which occur in Safari (which I no longer use).

I have dropped it, thrown it on my couch, and carried it to 3 countries and 7 states. I seriously cannot understand people who are breaking these.. as I havent treated my exactly well, but I do understand it is a portable computer which are all delicate pieces of machinery.

People invariably ask me questions about it when they see my in public, one is "Dont you miss your DVD drive?" And my answer is always no. I have the USB drive to install programs requiring a DVD, which I have needed maybe 5 times total. People wonder how I can watch movies, and you know.. I no longer own any DVDs... I ONLY watch digital movies now.. whats the point of wasting space in my house with DVDs I may watch once or twice. The other question people ask is about the air only having one USB port. Yes, this has been a bit annoying a few times (Especially since the Air has a disabled USB port turned off inside of it), but I have gotten around this by carrying a tiny USB splitter, and have needed to use that maybe 3 times total.

I have to admit however that I also have a full MacPro, which I keep all of my files on and that the Macbook Air is my portable office. I move everything that I have on it over the desktop when I am home, and am not sure I would be able to survive with only an 80 GB drive, but as I have 2 terabytes of data, I am sure you would understand why.

If you are interested in buying this machine I would suggest staying away from solid state drives for now, as they are more expensive for the size and the failure rate appears to be higher than normal hard drives. However, I LOVE my Air.

If you are on the fence, I would suggest getting it! But as with any Apple, I would also get an extra year of Apple Care. Ive only needed it once in the last 10 or so years, but it saved my life (and about 30,000 photos).
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