Oh, wow. Definitely not getting the air, thanks for the heads up.
I can understand not getting it due to a proprietary ssd type as opposed to something like mSATA where you might be able to spend a bit less on an upgrade. Trying to upgrade ulv cpus would be one of the dumbest things possible. You'd set yourself back several hundred for a marginal performance boost. The i7 is
this. If you could even find one sold retail socketed on its own, you're looking at over $300 for a very minor boost in performance. It is truly pointless. If you need as much power as possible in a mobile form factor, you want one of the QM chips. Even if you could upgrade those in a macbook pro, you'd be disappointed once again. The stratification between chips of a given class isn't much when you weigh it against the cost. CPUs really aren't worth upgrading post sale in almost any recent model notebook unless you ordered the wrong thing. Drives and ram are a different story, as the markups are typically much higher for what you really get, and it's typically easy to swap either in or out.