Macworld Shocker — Is There a MacBook Air Backlash Brewing?
It looks like there’s a mini backlash brewing against the beautiful but pricey MacBook Air — online at least.
Over at MacRumors, a “first impressions” gallery of the new sub-notebook is drawing far more negative reader comments than positive ones.
Yes, Mac fans like the Air’s thin profile, but there’s a lot of bitching about its limitations — the price, soldered ram, non-replaceable battery, and paying extra for an ethernet port or DVD drive.
“It’s an expensive, disposable toy,” says one MacRumors reader.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: 
