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I don't care about speed as long as I don't notice it. What the MBA has is probably enough for the vast majority of users, only the RAM seems weak to me.

You're going to notice 1.4G. Anyone who has taken more than 1000 photos and has put them in iphoto is going to notice 1.4G, or actually tried to use garageband is going to notice 1.4G.

It's faster than Atom. If you want real performance the MBP is there.

Which is also why it is not a netbook. Apple haters have it both ways- they complain the processor is too slow compared to a macbook pro, and that the price is too high compared to an atom running netbook.

sigh.

Ah, but if it were a netbook it would be under $400.

The bottleneck these days is so rarely CPU, it's disks. Doesn't look like the new Air has particularly speedy Flash storage, but it'll be so much faster than a spinning disk because of it. Keep the gigahertz, give me fast I/O.