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This thing fits in a manila folder, you can probably slide it under a door, it’s the thinnest laptop in the world right now. It’s  a great move that Apple tries to take a another step toward competition by introducing this very sexy laptop. But, there are alway but after something good right?

If you want to use it for design purpose, or try to use some heavyweight application, it won’t cut it. Good looking comes with sacrifice, which in this case-performance. Sporting a 1.6ghz cpu, it does a descent job on maybe just writing your notes or papers, and it will view any website smoothly. However, with the low end video card, programs such as adobe line of products will squeeze that last bit of juice out of it. The bottom line is that the Macbook air was not design for designer, but for casual use.

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