now wait a sec. didn't you say that once about indoor plumbing?
Having purchased the MB Air, I will report promptly if it's useless!
For stevegut78, the OP, if he's still around: you originally wrote "screen-sharing", brother. *That* works fine on our D-Link router. BTTM is a mess.
For LizKat, "useless" isn't fair, or accurate. Impractical in comparison to other products in the Apple notebook line, that's fair. But I'm betting you didn't buy your Air on purely practical considerations. It's the defense of Air purchase, among some Air purchasers on this forum, by defining it as the perfectly engineered portable solution for some people -- having nothing to do with fashion or cachet or just ooh, shiny, gimme -- when it's no such thing for anyone, that drives some people up a wall. And you probably wouldn't argue the Air's aesthetic pleasantries weren't you first consideration in this case . But the Air is hardly useless.
In fact, put a 160GB drive in it, or steal more than half my CDs, blank the rips of them, blank my back-up drive, I'm there. I just won't go back to dealing with two Macs at once; I want everything on one portable*. Of course if I did buy one, I'll tell you flat-out I picked the Air over a regular MacBook -- which is still a very nice-looking kit -- because it I think it looks super whizzy cool, not because it's better or some kind of engineering marvel of thin, light design *and* practicality.
*I reserve the right anytime before they release a model with more hard drive storage to crater and buy one anyway. But for now, I'm holding on my current personal model, I believe a very good one, of most-efficient personal computing.
p.s. I'm male. I like Apple's boxes. Still the unboxing photos and movies seem whack to me, but to each his own. Now, for you, LizKat, I used to live pretty near the Catskills. I can see, in winter, smack dead middle of the Catskills, a nice selection of Apple unboxing photos might break the tedium a bit, keep you from axe-murdering your family and maybe the neighbors down the road.
p.p.s. I keep updating this silly post when I could be doing more practical things myself, but the UK novelist Will Self who once entirely embraced personal computers for his work -- the implication is he then became obsessive in using them for everything -- said in an interview maybe six months or a year back, he had become disenfranchised with computers as lifestyle foci, and he now wanted a notebook computer he could use for work or any other thing he wished to do with it, but one and only one which he could easily upend on a shelf off his desk, like a real book, when he wasn't using it. I reached that determination myself almost a year before *I read* he'd said this -- he may well have come to it first -- and the original MacBook hit that sweet spot for me: enough of everything, not much of everything else. The Air would certainly make for a thinner, lighter "book" to shelve up off my desk when not in use, but there's not enough value in that for the trouble in working out solutions to supplement the current inbuilt storage limitations. That's my only complaint.
