![]() ![]() ![]() The second Air (or heir!) was priced significantly less at $1,299 ($999 for the 11-inch version), included some speedy solid state drives, and mended some of those port issues. If I think back, they were actually pretty rare to see out and about, and when I would spot one, I can remember thinking “that guy must have a nice car, too.”īut then came the major revision (the original Air got a slight spec bump in 2008, but it didn’t change much). For most, the sacrifices were just too many to justify for the high price. Sure, it was a functional laptop that could glide into a manila envelope, but the $1,799 laptop was, by and large, a secondary machine - it trailed behind other ultraportables in performance, lacked some essential ports (it only had one USB port and there was no SD card slot), and packed a small and slow hard drive. The original MacBook Air was more of a status symbol than a computer.
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