How much is the MacBook Air DVD drive??

So is the MacBook Air actually as good as Apple tries to make it sound and is it worth 1700 dollars.

  1. the macbook air doesn't have a DVD drive.
    You can buy an external one, buy it will be expensive.
    Any external DVD drive will work, so just buy a random one that as the DVD/CD burning and reading features you need. (I can't give a link since there's not enough info in your question)

    And no, it is not as good as it sounds and it is not worth $1700. It lists on apple's site as $1800 anyway.

    WHy?

    1. Very bad hard drive
    When you spend $1800 for a computer, you expect a good hard drive. Instead, you get the crappy, slow 80 GB 4200 rpm HD.
    If you "upgrade" to the $3000 model, you get a 64 GB hard drive. Its a SSD, but it won't improve performance much.

    Now, if you don't know how small 80 GB is, when you get the laptop, it will only have about 75-76 GB avaliable.
    The operating system and bundled software will use up about 10 GB.
    So in reality, you will have about 65 GB of space left.
    And you will have about 50 GB of space in the "upgraded" $3000 model.
    50 GB is about 27.5 hours of DVD video.
    Very small.

    2. Slow CPU. A $1800 laptop ought to have the 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, but apple gives you a crummy 1.6 GHz with that much money.

    3. Graphics- 144 MB integrated- I don't want to even talk about it.

    4. Size- despite what apple says, the mac air is not the thinnest laptop around, and certainly not the lightest.

    This laptop is much lighter, and smaller, and only .01 inch thicker, but it actually has a DVD drive, and is much less expensive.

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