Apple Macbook Air Expert Reviews

As was heavily predicted before its unveiling, Apple's new laptop, called the MacBook Air, is not quite an ultraportable but is still very small. Mimicking the 13-inch silhouette of the current MacBook line, it's .76-inch thick at its thickest part. ...

If light weight and small size are you top considerations, the MacBook Air is the laptop for you. The new models aren't much faster than their predecessors-in fact, the high-end system is slower than the previous model-but they're cheaper.

Weighs three pounds ; thin ; full-size keyboard ; bright 13-inch display

Slower than all other Apple laptops ; single USB port limits connectivity

It's also Apple's thinnest, lightest laptop. And I still love it

The updated version of Apple's strikingly thin and strong ultraportable adds plenty of graphics punch, but its battery life is too short.

Sturdy aluminum build, Fast SSD, Good graphics performance, Multitouch trackpad, Illuminated keyboard

Short battery life, Limited port selection, Very expensive

Our biggest beef with the MacBook Air is the lone USB 2.0 port, which doesn't properly accommodate all peripherals due to the flip-down panel. We had no problems connecting external storage drives, but an AT&T mobile broadband modem fit awkwardly into ...

Apple's second stab at the Air adds a better GPU but keeps the same shape--and the problems that come with it.

Light and sleek ; Greatly improved graphics power over original Air

Unswappable battery ; Single USB port

Today, though, the MacBook is a better buy for all but the most extreme devotees of thinness and lightness. It's not that the MacBook Air is a bad laptop. It's just that Apple has made a faster, cheaper, and almost equally attractive model that costs ...

We've spent a bit of quality time with the new MacBook Air, and while there's little on the surface to denote a change, Apple did quite a bit under the hood to turn this into a serious laptop -- of sorts. Full disclosure: we (meaning a certain Paul ...

Without a doubt, the MacBook Air is one of the niftiest-looking laptops we've ever tested. But he smallest notebook we've ever tested comes with sacrifices - the MacBook Air makes serious compromises to maintain its petite profile.

Amazingly small ; killer design ; 802.11n support. Decently-powered

Only one USB port ; no mic, no PC Card, no modem, no Ethernet, no optical drive

Unfortunately, the optical drive isn't the Air's biggest omission. We're even more put off by this portable's dearth of external ports-it includes just a single USB port, a multi-format video-out, and a headphone jack. No mic, no PC Card, no modem, no ...

This 3-pound sliver of a computer is truly breathtaking to look at. But here a good processor and 2 gigs of RAM don't translate to speedy performance, and aside from WiFi and Bluetooth, the only connections are a single USB port, a headphone jack and ...

True next-gen design. Incredible keyboard and screen. Good battery life - more than three hours. Competitive price.

Lack of connectors a real problem. Some devices hard to wedge into the flip-down USB port. Disappointing performance. Pokey hard drive.

Apple's much-hyped ultra-thin laptop can be an ideal traveling companion--but it's not for everyone.

, the second-generation laptop being developed for children in developing countries. The touch-screen laptop is designed to look like a book and is scheduled to be built by 2010