So two months of MacBook Air use... there are many, many things I like. Things I don't like that MacWorld would never publish
- It always defaults to Wireless even when the USB Ethernet dongle is plugged in. Now my PowerBook always used to default to the Ethernet when it was plugged in. This is painful because in my office you have to have VPN running over wireless. I have sat there on many occasions wondering my Outlook was not returning... just to find out that I had not switched off the wireless. Regression #1.
- Leave the bloody windows where they were! I loved the fact that my PowerBook, when plugged and unplugged from an external monitor remembered where I had placed windows. My MBA does not. I unplug and the laptop screen gets my widows. Thats fine. Now when I plug my external monitor back in... all the windows are still on the laptop screen. I now have to move them all over. Regression #2.
- Battery life 5 hours. You're kidding right? Typical use about 3.5 hours. This is just about the same as my PowerBook. I take the same set of flights between the West and East coasts in the USA. Both machines will run out of juice before I get to JFK. It would be tough to say Regression #3, but what the hell. At best its the same.
- MySQL. Ok can't blame Apple for this one, but what the hell, 10.5 has been out for a age and still no support for 10.5. Its a pain in the blinking neck, especially since there is no Oracle for Intel/Apple either... and Rosetta does not seem up for the job.
