Whatever you end up with, it's a mixed bag. If you go for a Mac Air, have a solid state drive. I currently have a Mac Air (all prior laptops had Windows) without a solid state hard drive and these are my impressions:

  • Design: Very sleek, beautiful.
  • Utilities: Cute and nice to have iMovie, GaragaBand, etc
  • Performance: Terrible. So slow, it gives me that little spinning circle so many times I want to swing it out of the window, and I'm not doing anything unusual to stress it. Performance is so bad that my $300 netbook with Linux works better sometimes.


I'd rather have a Win 7 laptop now, but I will keep this one for at least 3 years.