I was attending a training in KL city today.

After my training, i followed one of my friend to low yat to get some computer hardware for his friend back at his mother land.

But his friend has some interesting requirements.

Has to be stylish, delivers a sense of class, highly impressive, weights light and physically small.

Best part is budget isn’t much of a constrain.

So we were debating on which would be a suitable lap top for his friend. At the end of the day, we narrow down to a few options.

And Apple’s Mac Book Air.

At first i disagree with my friend with the idea of Mac Book Air, my reasons was that it’s small and has no features at all. Worst if he is interested in running Microsoft Windows only.

For the money you are paying, you could get a better laptop which is jam pack of juice in it’s arsenal.

I even compared that the Mac Book Air is just like a big boob blond with no brains. Looks good, nice to feel and stupid to live with.

Even my friend agrees to a certain extent and said he would try to convince his friend not to buy the pretty fruit.

The next day, he said “I failed to convince my friend to buy Air”.

And so after training, we went to low yat to get a brand new Mac Book Air.

After experiencing the Air in the shop, I would have to agree that this is the ideal laptop for his friend.

You see, he is a business man, and business man often needs to impress clients and stand out by a mile compared with his competitors.

It’s a general rule in business world, first impression decides 50% or not if the sale goes through or not.

The Mac Book Air definitely delivers in terms of style and class.

Given it’s light weight and size, it gives you the wow factor to impress people around you. Just like when Steve Jobs pull the Air out from a normal mail envelope on the Apple’s keynote address.

It has it’s down side though, the Air only has 1 USB port.

It has the build in WIFI so there will be no Ethernet port.

No optical drive, getting an external Apple USB super drive cost you RM389, and if you’re using a wired/wireless mouse connected to the USB, say bye bye to it while you need to jack in the super drive. You may argue that you can buy a multi port USB hub, well that doesn’t solve the problem. Using the multi port, there won’t be enough power for both your wireless and super drive they’ll both die without power.

Mono speakers.

On the up side, like all Apple products, it delivers the style and simplistic design features.

It’s definitely as light as advertise and what impress me the most is actually there is a build in light sensor that will activate the keyboard’s back light if it detects that your surrounding environment is dark or dim.

The basic unit that my friend bought is RM6,299 excluding the Super Drive(RM389), USB Ethernet Port(RM119), hard plastic protective cover(RM128).

So would you buy one?

My answer yes if i would just use it for entertainment, surfing and meeting clients with it.

Other than that I would put much hope on it.

You decide.

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