There’s Not Enough In The Air.

Or more precisely, there’s not quite enough hard disk space on the new MacBook Air.

Even more unfortunately, it’s only one and a half specs that completely kill the proposition for me: the 80 gig hard drive (huge deal) and the 2 gigs of RAM (somewhat huge deal). I don’t care about the slower processor, the lack of swappable battery, the minimal connectivity options, or the absence of removable media. These are all things you give up for the incredibly sexy shell. But can anyone comfortably get by on 80 gigs these days? My MacBook holds 230 gigs. And what about the 64 gig “high end” MacBook Air for a thousand bucks more!??! Who the hell is going to buy that model? I bet the lower end model outsells the higher end one at least 10-1.

I’m still keen. I have a, choke, 60 gig HD at the moment, which after 18 months is only at 33 per cent capacity. I keep anything large, videos, photos, music files, (backed up) on DVDs. Big stuff only stays the HD for a short time. As it should.

I’m using a Windows machine after all, and nothing valuable should be left on the local drive in case it crashes right? Isn’t that conventional wisdom?