So, has the spec and full details of the MacBook Air changed your mind? Are you still interested in buying one? Have you pre-ordered one already? What do you think of the design? Does it need to be sooo thin? Let us know your thoughts...
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I'm less interested in how THIN it is than how LIGHT it is. I recently swapped my Powerbook G4 for a lighter MacBook and it still cripples my shoulder to carry the blinking thing around with me, even without spare batteries!!
The Air is 1.36 kg, or 3 pounds depending on whether you are metric or imperial.
Don't know what model G4 you did have, but this is what you were lugging around:
12-inch model? Not bad = 4.6 pounds (2.1 kg)
15-inch model? Feelin' it = 5.7 pounds (2.6 kg)
17-inch model? Ouch = 6.9 pounds (3.1 kg)
Whereas a MacBook is around 5 pounds, or 2.27 kg.
Either which way, I should think you'd notice the weight difference with an Air...
having played with one at the launch - it is light, but its flat and wide. You aren't going to get this in a manbag or for women a handbag. Still you shouldn't have to worry about it hurting your shoulder, mainly because you aren't carrying those spare batteries either
Edited Fri 18 Jan at 6:25pm
Just think you could get 10 for the same price as the top spec'ed model - that's almost one a month before you threw it away :D
