Comments on: MacBook Air Updated: Spec Bumps All Around

By: Jonathan Greenwood

Jonathan Greenwood — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:35:58 +0000

The spec’s apart from battery life are great. Your lucky to get 2 rather 5 hours wireless connectivity and as the months progress the battery life gets worse. There is no point in upgrading to the SSD drive as it makes absolutely no difference in speed or battery life. So if you really want one go for the cheapest option with an upgrade to the maximum CPU speed.

I’m kinda wondering what the battery life is for the unibody MacBook. Does is really delivery 5 hours with wifi connectivity or is that also 2 hours?

By: Weldon Dodd

Weldon Dodd — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:59:52 +0000

@tin – I understand the desire for a removable battery, but how would you upgrade the existing external SuperDrive?

@MoBurkhardt – 802.11n is going to be faster than the 10/100 ethernet adapter. Why NOT use WiFi? You can backup to a USB hard drive if you really need to.

By: MoBurkhardt

MoBurkhardt — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:19:21 +0000

what about the ethernet? Are we expected to restore 128 GB of Files onto the SSD via Wifi?

By: Wii

Wii — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:05:03 +0000

Excellent to see this! before you were just paying for how thin it was, and for the apple brand, now you’re getting good specs aswell!

Cheers for the post!

By: tin

tin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:56:54 +0000

I hope that soon, they will upgrade its optical drive and remove it’s built in battery.

By: Darrell Etherington

Darrell Etherington — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:34:14 +0000

I agree, this update makes this a very attractive machine. I still know a lot of people who won’t get it because of the lack of a built-in optical drive, but I say “Death to physical media!”