FYI - MacBook Air doesn't have a user-replaceable battery
 

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my old boss just bought a macbook the day b4 macworld. bet she feels dumb now
 

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1 step fowards, 2 steps back. pricing and battery issues worry me.
 

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The MacBook Air (and yes I hate the name) is definitely meant to augment a second Mac. I would have taken a thicker case to get a firewire port, more HD space, upgradeable RAM, an ethernet port and removeable battery as long as the weight was about the same. Speaking of the battery, I’m sure there will be an external battery option made by a third party that you can just put on your lap below the Air and has a magsafe connector, these exist already for other types of laptops and have for years. But that is less important to me than the following.

So if it’s meant to be an extention of a primary Mac, why hasn’t Apple release some software to allow us to “sync” our portable mac like we do our iPhone or iPod. I’ve been wanting this for years. My Mac at home holds lots of movies and music and photos and data, say 500 gigs, not even the highest end laptop has a drive this large. But only a small portion of this data do want to use on the train or plane, yet to move music and movies between multiple iTunes libraries is a complete pain in the butt.

So what I want to see from Apple (or a third party) is to treat a computer like an iPod and choose to sync and even “shuffle” a subset of my media, and data, hell, even Applications (I don’t need 2GB of Garage Band loops every day) to my laptop to take around with me.

If something exists that I have missed please let me know, but this is my computing dream.

So if you have a work Mac and a home Mac that you can sync with, and you use the air to watch movies, do a little bit of work and email and web browsing but nothing too hardware hungry, oh no... Looks like the MacBook air just became a really expensive PDA

(back to the drawing board!)
 

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