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Average Ratings
Screen Quality7.6/10
Battery Life5.1/10
Ease of Use7.9/10
Value for Money5.6/10
Reviewer Rating6.6/10
Overall Rating5.7/10 Based on 11 ratings
71% Recommended5 out of 7 Reviews

Review of Apple MacBook Air Laptop

By azzers Rank: Sergeant on 25th Mar 2008

azzers's Ratings
Time Laptop OwnedLess than a Week
Screen Quality5/10
Battery Life2/10
Ease of Use7/10
Value for money0/10
Overall value2/10
no azzers's recommendation

Good Points

Looks impressive.

Bad Points

For me its expensive.
In my experience the Air has poor specifications.
Easily damaged.
Poor battery life.

General Comments

This is an exceptionally expensive fashion statement but judging from the success of Apple's other over-priced fashion statements (iPhone and iPods) this may be a success.

It has a weak processor (1.6 in the cheaper model 1.8 in the top model) at the heart of it's inferior components. The screen isn't x-black or HD giving inferior picture quality to other laptops that are far cheaper. There is no internal disc drive so you have to carry an external drive with you to read media.

With the better model costing over £2000 and not achieving the level of say an £800 Sony Vaio there should be no reason to buy this notebook but I would almost guarantee people will flock to do so.

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