Only a week after its introduction, the MacBook Air is one of the hottest topics of the IT world. A lot of people love it (I am one of those, I must admit), maybe some of these already got one, and would do anything to defend the image of their favorite laptop, others are trying to bury it, using the price as one of their best weapons, while others simply sit back and enjoy the show...
Soon after its introduction at this year's MacWorld Expo, during a keynote that a lot of voices on the Internet claimed to be way below the expectations, most people started to claim that the MacBook Air is too expensive. Well, they may be right, especially since the ones that may be delighted to use the MacBook Air (I am talking about students here) have a pretty limited budget, in most cases, but I am sure that, in the long run, it may be worth the price.
We only have to wait a little longer to see some serious price drops for the solid state drives, because a MacBook Air with a SSD would be great, but a price tag of $3,100 is completely out of this world, especially since you only get 64GB of storage space on your new Apple laptop for the price...
Other people said the Air will have heat problems, and the only way to go is to grab the SSD model, but... where's the truth? The truth is that, first of all, everyone expected Steve Jobs to announce the iSpaceship, and that isn't possible just yet, and second, being given all this "love-it-or-hate-it" crowd gathered by the MacBook Air, this laptop will only get more and more popular, at least in the news, if not with users all over the world.
After all, the iPhone has shown the way for the a lot of mobile phones that followed it, and maybe that's exactly what the MacBook Air is all about, with its MIA optical drive and "it's-not-here" Ethernet port, leaving only the wireless communication as a link to the outside world. My only fear is that, this time, the MacBook Air may be one step too far ahead...
