What's the i7 for?
The MacBook Air is built for everyday tasks, does that need i7?
i7 is for intense stuff, but then again, you can't recommend the Air for that because it isn't built for intense stuff. So, what's the point of the i7?
Your assumption here is that a MBA cannot be used (or at least, is extremely unsuited) for higher-end tasks. This is simply untrue. A quick search on the internet turns up tons of examples of people using their airs for processor-heavy activities like music/movie editing, photoshop, programming and web development.
The air is as thin as it is not because Apple cut corners in the hardware spec department, but simply through removing parts which they felt most people wouldn't miss and extremely efficient engineering (cd-drive, soldering ram), and these moves won't impact how well your laptop runs one bit.
There's definitely this persistent misconception that the macbook air is somehow apple's version of the netbook. That is incorrect. The closest thing they have to a netbook would be the ipad. The air is definitely not inferior to any other laptop on the market performance-wise.
There is clearly a market for people who prize both portability and high specs, and for this group at least, they would find it worthwhile to upgrade to a faster processor.
Nope, that's proof that the Air doesn't need i7, unless you want a MacBook Pro with worse performance, more expensive but dramatically thinner, which is the reason I have a MacBook Air instead of the Pro.
tell that to all the other people who bought airs with upgraded processors, and are thoroughly enjoying the noticeable speed increase when encoding media.
You are either very misinformed, or as your nick hints, some sort of troll (but to your credit, still a fairly mild and personable one).
