Apple MacBook Air Core i7 1.8GHz 13"-4GB RAM-256GB SSD-Lion-BTO/CTO(2011)

Get it from the apple store online refurbished and save a lot of $$$$. At the apple store website...on the bottom left side of the page under special deals click on refurbished mac...they are selling it for $1439+tax and you can get a full 3 year applecare warranty too. I am very satisfied with my macbook air that was shipped to me... it is brand new! no blemishes of any kind. The battery has lasted upto 9 hours! Overall excellent product.

Finally a device arrived that's worth to be called a notebook. The unit packs a powerful punch of CPU, fast memory and solid state storage which is finally starting to reach practical capacities and capabilities. The top end i7 model fully loaded (4GB RAM, 256GB SDD at the time) does easily rival a MacBook Pro, and outperforms my 2007 17" MacBook Pro (2.4GHz dual, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD with 4GB SDD cache). No moving parts other then the fan, which hardly comes on. The missing optical drive may throw you off originally but other then for software installation and burning the odd DVD you will hardly miss it during day-to-day use. In that case the optional USB drive doesn't break the bank, and if you have another Mac somewhere you can easily mount that drive remotely. The only downside, and I found this will all my MacBooks in the past, is the poor lighting of the displays, it's uneven and most noticeably darkens in corners and edges. I would understand burnout after years of use like mine that run 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, some 5+ years now. But not with a new device out of the box. There are more significantly lower priced Laptops out there that do a much better job in that area. Now, I use the unit as a business notebook with mainly commercial apps and a WIndows VM on top, so I can live with it, but it's still not acceptable at that price point.

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Too bad, amazon only sells a version without core i7 CPU upgrade. If they do and the price is around 1599 (since i5 version is at 1499 and apple store add 100$ for upgrading), I will order immediately.

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Farhad Manjoo of Slate magazine was 100% right when he wrote recently, " If you want a great laptop, buy a MacBook Air." It's that simple.

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This is a great laptop. I like how it boots up instantly, and the almost weightlessness of it. Hey it is an Apple what did you expect me to say. LOL. I also appreciated John and his fast communication, the care in shipping it quickly to me and his personal follow up. Thanks John.