The laptop's strong points include the rigid aluminum architecture, good performance for graphics, fast SSD, backlit keyboard and Multi-Touch trackpad. However, its battery's short life and the few ports limit the applications of this otherwise sexy and ultraportable computer.
Many manufacturers of laptops are striving to compress computers into ultrathin notebooks. Consequently, many features are thrown overboard as they reduce the size of the computer. Thus, the smaller or thinner the notebook, the lesser the features as they are forced to leave out some ports. Apple is no exception and MacBook Air proves the point.
Therefore, you will have to be contented with the limited connectivity of the Apple MacBook Air as the ports are very few. It has only 1 USB port, a headphone jack, Mini-DisplayPort connections, and omitted the rest; FireWire Port, optical drive, Ethernet, mobile broadband. This product is thus suitable for users who do not need wired connectivity but rather their lives revolve around Wi-Fi. Furthermore, it is an excellent product for users who travel a lot.
The MacBook Air has a good 13 inch display LED-Backlit screen and shares the resolution with its standard 13 inch MacBook counterpart at 1,280x800. The keyboard is illuminated with the ambient light sensor just like the MacBook Pros. The Multi-Touch trackpad is large enough allowing you to use three fingers to scroll through contrary to the two fingers in the MacBook Pros.
The laptop also has an iSight web cam for video conferencing. The two microphones - one to the left and another to the right - mean that the notebook is good for telephony. However, there is no watching of movies or installation of software from DVDs because there in no built-in Optical drive but you can use an external optical drive by connecting to the adjacent standard MacBook notebook.
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