Air-y speculation

[Mark Smith]

I'm thinking about buying one (or maybe two) Macbooks Air.

(...after having gotten my evil hands on one of the delightful little  
buggers for the first time at the weekend. Mighty impressive.)

The decision is hanging by a couple of threads:

1. It seems to me that the current 64GB SSD is not worth the money, so  
I'd take the paltry 4200rpm HDD at the outset.

	Invited speculation:

	what's the likelihood that a significantly cheaper,
	significantly larger (let's say double the size (128 GB)
	for half the price (450 Euro) SSD Drive will appear within the
	year and be retrofittable (albeit warranty-busting) in
	a current gen. Air that was originally fitted with the
	std. HDD ?


2. The one thing that troubles me about going all Air at home (i.e. no  
desktop as such, just APBS with a headless mini and some disks hanging  
off of them) is lack of firewire:

I suppose that the two firewire only devices (a large external HDD  
that I use for backups and a video camera) I have can be used by  
hanging them off of the Mini and connecting over AFP (slow, slow,  
slow), but what about the very useful target disk mode ? I cannot  
connect two Macbooks Air for the purposes of cloning. I'll always have  
to go a dogleg over a third (usb) startup disk.

	Invited speculation:
	
	any likelihood that with the advent of firewire-free
	macs, a non-firewire target disk mode will
	appear ?


mark.