$130 + 5 day turnaround to replace Macbook Air battery.
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookair/service/battery/
That page can't be right - it shows the Europe price with a GBP sign (£) not a Euro () sign. If they are quoting in GBP, then at current exchange rates, the £139 incl. taxes for Europe is $273!
Even if the sign should be for Euros, then 139 = $205 currently.
Rip-off right there!
I kinda like the design, but I tried running with one USB port on a Dell Latitude C400 and it got to the point that I got a USB PCMCIA card to give some connections.
That machine was a good size and design when released in 2001:
12.1" screen,
PIII 1.2Ghz CPU
Intel i830M on-board graphics
upgraded to 768Mb ram (max 1Gb)
upgraded to 80Gb 2.5" hard drive
added an Intel 802.11a/b/g mini-PCI card
10/100 Ethernet
External DVD-CDRW
Headphone & Microphone sockets
On-board modem
Serial port
VGA port
Infrared sensor
4-cell 27Whr or 6-cell 40Whr battery
PCMCIA slot
Height - 26.6mm to 30.5mm (1.04 to 1.2")
Width - 290mm (11.4")
Depth - 238mm (9.4")
Weight 1.63kg (3.6lb with 4-cell battery)
So the new MBA is half an inch thicker at the thick end, 1.4" wider and just under half an inch narrower, plus half a pound lighter.
For that weight difference:
Dell smaller screen (by 1.2" diagonal)
Dell smaller battery (by 10Whr plus lithium-ion against MBA's lithium polymer)
Apple has bluetooth module & built-in wireless
Apple has larger hard drive in basic weight specs (20Gb on original Dell)
Dell has built-in 10/100 Ethernet, serial port, built-in modem and connector, infra-red sensor, microphone input jack
Apple has aluminium case against plastic on the Dell
So win some and lose some on both sides, but the MBA with some of the Dell functionality (ethernet and smaller screen, mostly) would've pushed me towards buying one as a complement to my Mac Mini (I've hardly used the Dell at all since buying the Mini in June 07), although the price in the UK is a push for a second machine to be used occasionally (I'd use the Mini when at home for over 80% of the time). I rarely used the external drive on the Dell so that doesn't worry me - hmm, wonder if the MBA SuperDrive would work with my Mini as it doesn't have a DVD burner.....)