Only on a list of truly premier laptops could the MacBook Air just squeak into the top 10. At .76" thick and with a weight of 3lbs, this extremely stylish notebook is still looking good and a joy to carry around. The 13.3" frame sports a rather lackluster (for this crowd) 1280x800 resolution, and the 1.86GHz Intel Core 2 Duo doesn't overly impress and is probably part of the reason the battery life is under 3 hours. On the other hand, the 2GB of DDR3 RAM should be sufficient for most tasks, and the 128GB drive is generously sized for an SSD. It also comes with a dedicated nVidia GeForce 9400M 256MB. To fit all this into such a small laptop is pretty impressive, but this list is about very impressive laptops, and all that's only good enough to land the MBA a #10 spot. As an aside, it doesn't help that there's a mere 1 USB port and 1 Mini DisplayPort on the whole thing. But to be fair, with a cost of $2500 (+$100 if you want the Mac SuperDrive, which you probably will since the MBA has no internal optical drive), it only just makes our price bottom line. ...........link
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