Peace

My MacBook Air will become my constant companion!

BTW, where’d you get the concept car wallpaper? Thanks!
- Jim

I didn’t experience the core shutdown for months, until a few weeks ago. If i start getting them often I think I’m going to end up under powering it.

I see the same wear as you do, so they have not changed anything yet. I design high end products and have a trained eye for build quality.

So, here are the Macbook Air Problems with my machine:

1) The bezel around the screen is painted plastic. When the screen is closed the bezel edge below the camera seems to hit the mouse button and palm rest. this has caused marks on the mouse button, the palm rest, and bezel area around camera.

The marks on the button and palm area are from plastic/paint from the bezel. The bezel marks from the the two edges of each side of the button. there is also scuffing across the whole area that the button touches on the bezel.

2) The Mouse button is not flush with the surface of the palm rest, that makes it worst for above.

3) There is a big tooling mark on the radius area just above the esc key.

4) The bottom cover is even around the edge, it is 0.5mm above the main body out on the area in the front (notch for opening)

5) One of the corner screws holding the bottom cover on is bottomed out, I can tell by pushing on the bottom cover and it moves up and down. So the bottom is not really being held down on that corner.

6) The I/O door is not flush with the bottom, forward edge is inset and rear edge is protruding.

7) You can see one spot weld divot on the bottom. It could be just cosmetic defect as I have not opened the unit.

8) One dead pixel….

Significant issue for the future, marks on underside from insertion of cables into the I/O door area. Since you can’t see the connector holes without picking up the Air and USB and Audio connectors have bare metal tips the users may hit the slanted portions and create marks. I already have one slight one.

Magsafe is actually worse since it has a sharper metal edge.

Notes,
Unit was handle with extreme care for a 6 days.
unit was then taken on an asia trip in a Tumi laptop bag that has separate padded area for laptop.
I had the usual phone, Air ACA, PDA, and 1.8″ hard drive in bag too.

vance

Some work has been needed to slim down the HD (actually cut it by 3 !) but thanks to a small WD portable HD of 320 gb, I can really feel I’m missing something, to the contrary !

Well a great product, not for anyone maybe, but a product that understands me (like my beloved iPhone) and that’s what counts, not the number of USB ports…

Having said that it would be awesome if there was one more killer feature for the Air. I would like the machine to have access to the internet from anywhere like my iphone and the kindle does.

Who knows, maybe this is coming in the future with iphone 2.0 and 3G.

Now that I understand it’s the portability I guess I have some forgiveness for you :P. My girlfriend at GSU got herself a MBP a year or so back and I’m surprised she carries it as much as she does to class… that thing is a BEAST.

Good luck selling it, if I had the cash to spare I’d be more than willing to buy it.

@leslie – thanks for stopping by. Yeah, I went to D.C./MD and used the metro system quite a bit.. so it’s not really a train but same difference. :-)

I experienced the exact same problem, but AC says that ‘limp mode’ (running on a single core) shouldn’t be happening.

I’ve returned mine for a new unit. You may want to consider doing the same.

I do however love the constructin, in paticular the hinged flap over the ports, its supremely well implemented.

Keep up the good work, Paul.

I have another experience however, I sent mine back for I had a 4 week return policy. I loved the touch and feel, the design was absolutely fantastic but the performance including external hook ups (USB) was poor. I exchanged it for a MBP and whenever I have enough money to spend to purchase one for “minimal” computing I will do that ….