Macbook Air Is My Hot Hot Sex
The Macbook Air is so edgy, so sharp that it cuts cool and slices seductive. I’ve had my Macbook Pro for just over a year and when I got it, never thought I’d get a new laptop (unless it was an improved MBP). But what does Apple do? It redefines ultraportable.
And baby, I’m all into that. The highlights are the crisp display, full-sized keyboard (with backlight!), huge trackpad, which made me cringe until I saw the guided tour and what you can do on that pad, and the wireless conventions they’ve incorporated. Even the optional Solid State Drive they have available sounds awesome.
All this is dandy, but there’s got to be some lowlights, right? Yes, yes there are. First is the icky graphics card, don’t think I can play some of the games I’ve installed on my MBP (not that I play exclusively on my laptop). Then it has no built-in optical drive (but there’s an external drive accessory and the wireless interface to use other computers’ optical drives) and no express card slot, which I just bought one to read my media cards. The SSD drive is also smaller than I hoped it’d be. But regardless of all these lowlights, the highlights pretty outshine them and makes the Macbook Air a very dangerous temptress.
The display may be 13 inches but it’s LED backlit and is sharp, bright and crisp. The keyboard retains its awesome Apple status. The trackpad. Is. So. Nuts! Just like the iPhone, you can pinch and slide. Just like other Macbooks you can use two fingers on the pad and click for a right-click or scroll through stuff. They altered the sizing adjustment gestures to affect other applications, like the Finder windows and not just limit it to photos in Photobooth. You can even rotate photos with a gesture. Many things are wireless now, which is funny that the power supply isn’t wireless (KIDDING!). Since there’s no built-in optical drive, you can use the wireless feature to use optical drives on other computers (as mentioned above). They’ve even popped in an iTunes rental system ad in there. Also, Time Capsule looks to be the wireless solution for backup. This would be awesome too, since I have to plug my external drive to my MBP everytime I want to make a backup. With Time Capsule I can do it wirelessly. Of course, I’m sure my MBP would be compatible with it too.
Which illuminates my dilemma. Do I want to get this shiny new tech that’s too sexy for my shirt? Damn you Apple. At least Sony makes cool looking pieces of crap, which allows me to separate myself from them speedily to the next hot, sexy, cool. You, on the other hand, make hot looking stuff that works pretty darn good.
