3 obscure but essential MacBook Air add-ons.

I’ll never forget the first time I got my hands on the MacBook Air, at its debut in January 2008. “This thing looks like it’s descended from a spatula,” I wrote in my New York Times review. “It’s a stunningly beautiful aluminum slab, three-quarters of an inch thick. Its edges are beveled to look even thinner. When it’s on a table, you might mistake this laptop for a placemat.”

At the time, the price of the sleek computer from Apple (AAPL) was $1,800, the hard drive held 80 gigs, and the battery lasted five hours. (Today, $1,200 gets you 3.2 times as much storage — flash memory, not a spinning hard drive — and 12 hours of battery life. And the speed is much, much better.)

But I also wrote, “You can’t make a three-pound laptop without sacrificing something, however.” And on the Air, that part hasn’t changed.

So today, as a public service, I’m going to review three obscure but absolutely ingenious add-on products that address those sacrifices, and that turn the MacBook Air into the dream machine it deserves to be.


By David Pogue.
Full story at Yahoo News.