Perfect New MacBook Airs to Dominate Laptop Rental Market

No matter what kind of Apple Mac laptop rental our customers want, we tend to have exactly the product they need in store. But lately, the requests for them have greatly increased due to the popularity surrounding Apple's latest notebook releases.

Several technical publications have taken a look at the original Macbook Air, released back in 2008, to compare it to the latest version.

The latest MacBook Air may very well be Steve Jobs’ opus. It has been referred to some news sources as being the "most powerful laptop" available today. Other sources (MSNBC) have referred to it as "[the best] notebook computers they’ve ever used."

Tech industry experts, overall, seem to be happy with the latest computer to feature the Mac OS. Computerworld even went as far as headline an article about the new product: "Core i5 MacBook Airs Approach Perfection."

Built to run the new Lion OS, the MacBook Air boasts Intel Core i5 and i7 processors – and it also boasts the benefit of Thunderbolt connectivity. The product also looks pretty "sexy" with an anodized aluminum exterior and a LED-backlit display.

This "perfection" isn’t quite all gravy though. The new MacBook Air has actually been criticized (as well as lauded) for its inclusion of the Thunderbolt connection. While Thunderbolt connectivity is undeniably useful, some parties feel that it has its limitations. As an example, Thunderbolt imposes a hard port limit on its infrastructure. That means that only one screen can be connected to (instead of two) – and only two additional Thunderbolt devices can be accessed.

To me, the above seems something like a trifle to complain about. It’s like having an issue with a Ferrari’s muffler color or something.

Not all of the techies are ready to embrace the next gen Macs – their allegiance to the force (Microsoft) is strong. At a recent event, I made the off-hand comment that Apple will be eating up market shares with its laptop presence – soon.

There were gasps of outrage, cries of dismay, etc.

And then I told them that laptops as we know them are going away completely, eventually, due to virtualization.

They wrote me up as a mad hatter, but we’ll see who laughs last.