Black MacBook or Air?

Posted in apple, free advice, macintosh, note-to-self, software | Monday, July 7th, 2008 | Trackback

It’s time for a new laptop. Should I get a black MacBook or a MacBook Air? I keep waffling. I basically use it for remote access to my work/home desktop computers, for web browsing and email.

Black:

Faster (33%50%)
More Disk Space (3X)
Faster Disk (5400RPM)
Has DVD
Cheaper ($300)

Air:

Awesome LED backlit display
Smaller

I’m leaning towards the BlackBook.

Update: BlackBook it is! What put me over the edge (aside from *cough* $300) was lack of an ethernet port on the Air. I don’t want to carry around a stupid dongle to plug in to a LAN.

One Response to “Black MacBook or Air?”

  1. Brian Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    The Air is very flashy and sleek, and I’d go for that if it weren’t so limited (unless it has everything you need) and expensive. But I have nothing but great things to say about my BlackBook (I’ve previously had a white iBook, a PowerBook, and a MacBook Pro, and my wife currently sports a white Mac Book), so I would highly recommend.

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