Doug is right about linux systems being quite zippy.

On the other hand, the MBA has a SSD (Solid State Disk) which makes it MUCH
faster.  I'm ordering SSD for my mini and going to use the nifty tool set
Steve S and I have talked about so much lately.

Digital Ecology is real.  If you have a lot of windows systems or phones
then considering synergy is important.  I live sorta in the middle: Google
apps and services, Mac hardware/software because I'm a unix user .. I have
more terminal windows open than any other kind .. and Mac is Unix under the
cover.

So I'd say consider your ecology first.  Then within that, what'd be most
fun, frivolous, easy, silly, joyful, sexy, annoying to family and friends
and so on.

   -- Owen

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Pamela McCorduck <[email protected]> wrote:

> Whoops, more votes coming in. The idea of a MacBook Air plus external
> CD/DVD player is very interesting.
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