Apple unveiled their new lap top design “MacBook Air” yesterday. A super thin and light computer .76″-.16″ thick and weighs right about 3 pounds. Pegged as a computer for the ultra mobile person, this computer relies heavily on wireless.

How heavily? This computer doesn’t come with a optical drive.  To install programs one must first install the special “Remote Disk” software on another Mac, and then you put the disk you wish to install on that computer, and then the files will wirelessly install on your MacBook Air. But with an 80GB, I assume flash, HD and only 1, yes 1 USB port this “Airy” computer leaves something to be desired for.

I can see how some mobile people who are frequently leaving and returning to a physical computer could have use of this Air, such as presentations for meetings and students.  But for those of us who do a lot of computing, have a lot of programs, or edit large projects, not having a CD/DVD drive will be very frustrating.

And the kicker? The price: $1799. For a computer that needs to also have a companion computer and back up “Time Capsule” for storage space and don’t forget to throw in a USB Squid since this computer has only 1 port, it is way too much money.  Similar ultra light and wireless focused computers using the “Cloud Computing” format are priced $299-499.

Is this a computer or just a large iTouch?