Bleicke

I've had the MacBook Air for about 8 months now, I think. I have the Revision A, the first one. No fancy NVIDIA graphics yet. By now I've actually found a few things that bug me:

1)Gets hot easily and likes to rev like crazy

And when I say easily I mean 1-2 YouTube videos. Even on a flat, wooden surface, this makes it go crazy. I get that the Air is not a high performance slash work horse computer, but come on, YouTube? Really? The fan also doesn't just go to 3000 revs or something. It goes all out to 6200 and stays there until a)you close the lid for a few seconds or b)you do literally NOTHING but hold your breath for 30 minutes.

At it's idle 2500 rpm the fan is not audible, but at 3500 it starts to get loud. And at 6200 it annoys me. 

This issue might be resolved in the Rev B, which has a new processor and better graphics.

2)Sometimes, yes, sometimes, it's a little slow.

I don't have the SSD, and I have the smaller (1.6GHz) processor. It's not really bad, but from time to time I have to wait. I have a feeling this is also gotten worse, because it was really crisp when I first got it. Maybe I have to format the drive and reinstall the OS. Like in Windows. That would suck.

Snow Leopard comes out in June, so I'll wait till then and format.

By the way: it is perfectly possible to render videos in iMovie on the smallest MacBook Air. I cut a little video and it rendered the 20 seconds (ok, that IS short) in less than a minute.

3)The screen hinge wore out SO easily!

This is also annoying, especially when you have the computer on an unstable surface.. like your lap. The hinge is so loose that the screen flips back and forth about 1-2cm. That feels cheap, not like the rest of the really stable aluminium case.

4)Now that I have an iPod, a backup hard drive and a mouse, 1 USB is annoying.

This one is not too bad. I backup about once a week, and the mouse stays on the table. So once a week I have to plug in cables for a few seconds. It's still a little annoying.

I tried using a Apple Mighty Mouse Wireless to get rid of the mouse, but it sucked. I think maybe all bluetooth mice suck. Seriously, who uses them? The only ones on the market are those little, nasty "laptop mice". They're all worse than touchpads. Maybe bluetooth just isn't for mice.

We also tried using an Apple TimeCapsule, but that totally sucked. Stopped working after two days. Nothing but trouble. Sent it back.

Apple, do some work on your periphery!

Upside

Those are really the only things bugging me. On the positive side, the mobility is incredible. It's just so light! Even carrying my mates 13" aluminium MacBook (which weighs 2.5kg as opposed to the Airs 1.3) feels really heavy. I can't even fathom carrying something as heavy as my old ThinkPad or some of these monstrosities people put up with on the PC front.

Also it does everything well I do. Which is writing, surfing, coding, watching videos from time to time, emailing and chatting. I'm not exactly a power user in the CPU sense, and I feel like I have enough speed most of the time. I do feel the difference on iMacs or MacBook Pros, though.

What next?

Kind of sad that I'm already thinking about the "next" MacBook, I know. I'm probably waiting for the next generation of MacBooks, which should launch in 2-3 years. If I don't stumble upon a load of money till then, I'll wait it out. 90% of the time, the Airs really fine. Am I going for the next Air or the next Pro? Or the next "just MacBook"? I don't know. I've always wanted to try a Pro, and the huge screen does make a difference. On the other hand, how could I get anything heavier than the Air now? It's SO portable!

Time will tell.

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5) When I sit with the sun in my back, my shadow keeps moving over the light sensor, which is positioned next to the web cam. This means that I have to sit perfectly still, or my screen and keyboard light will randomly change all the time. Very annoying.