Sean's Blog

It’s been a few weeks with my MBA now, and I have a few more thoughts:

• The screen on the 13” model could just a bit bigger, with more pixels. Its 1440x900 resolution is pretty good (and better than most Ultrabooks—their biggest shortcoming, in my opinion), but the bezel is large enough that it could—and should—be enlarged a bit.
• It’s nice and thin. It could have been made a marginal amount thicker to add in an Ethernet, and maybe even a FireWire port, and no one would have objected. The thinness is really just for bragging rights—and not much else.
• My last MBP ran under $2,000. To get a 15” MBP that’d blow my Air out of the water (i.e., with a 256 GB SSD, higher resolution display, etc.), you’re talking about $2600 or so. Yes, it’d have two more cores, and far better graphics, but 99.999% percent of people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. Apple has gaps in their product lineup like no other tech company—and they just don’t care.