17 Comments

• Digg
• Bury

"why would one spend 1250(1000-1500) on a netbook?"

I have a 13" MacBook Pro. I had a 17", but I found myself unable to carry all of my equipment in my back pack all day (hard drives, batteries, cameras, etc...). I had a 1 month trip where I was walking/hiking an average of 20 miles a day. With that in mind, every bit of weight counted.

So, I considered a netbook, but I needed the power of at least a Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM. I also wanted to use OS X, and wanted all of my OS X applications and compatibility with my desktops.

So...at the time the 13" MacBook Pro made sense.

If the MacBook Air had a single FireWire port, I would buy it in a heartbeat, almost regardless of price. Without FireWire, there's one specific use case that it won't work with (live up-streaming of video from an external camera source).

But I could see a lot of people who need ultraportability and OS X wanting a MacBook Air who don't need anything else (like FireWire, larger capacity drive, etc...).

• Reply