I keep dragging my feet - confirmed there is a MBA in town, but keep reading the forums!
My thoughts are that why be so concerned about space when you can have a 1.8" HD mini the size of a few business cards attached when needed to your USB and "grab" any extra stuff we all seem so afraid to have on our MBA's HD?
Am I blowing smoke up my own or what????:
Macdent, your comments are well-taken.
The MBA's HD/SSD is definitely big enough to do most anything you need to do... you can install a hell of a lot of apps and/or data in there. But when you have a lot of space-intensive media files (music, movies, etc.), those things will eat your HD space for lunch.
Yes, you can add an external hard drive and have access to all the data you want. I've purchased a 320 GB external USB HD solely for that reason, so I can keep ALL of my data with me at all times. But I'd prefer not to have to plug it in every time I want to do something... that's why I (among others) have focused so much on (1) making the best use of space on the MBA's internal HD and (2) finding cool ways to access data that don't involve having to use something that physically plugs into the MBA. For me, the external USB HD is #3 on my list of preferred storage media; it's there if I need it, but hopefully I won't.
Whoever it was that said "the network is the computer" was more right than they know. The MBA, among other machines, is steering us down a path where portability is augmented by near-universal access to data stores. The time is coming when many technophiles (and then everyone else, later on) will have dedicated storage in their home or at work, and they'll be able to access that info from anywhere they can get a network connection. Between ultraportables, iPhones and other smartphones, and things like Remote Desktop Control and web-enabled applications, you can almost do anything from anywhere at this point... as long as you can get on the web.
