![]() ![]() The lack of an Ethernet jack (and a $29.00 price tag for the dongle if you get it through Apple) is a handicap Asus actually includes that dongle in the Zenbook UX31’s box. Apple has outfitted the machine with two USB ports, an SD card slot, a Mini DisplayPort / Thunderbolt port, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. One place where the Air doesn’t compete with some of these newer ultrabooks - the Folio 13 and Portege especially - is on ports. The machine weighs 2.96 pounds, though it isn’t as light as the others, especially the 2.47-pound Toshiba Portege Z835. While the Asus Zenbook UX31 and U300s came close to matching the unibody build, the Air feels more tightly constructed: the lid and base are solid to the core, the screen hinge exhibits zero wobble, and there’s no flex to the keyboard. (The Lenovo IdeaPad U300s, original Samsung Series 9, and Sony Vaio Z deserve honorable mentions for having unique designs with well-built chassis.) You’re almost certainly familiar with the Air, but I will say that in terms of build quality, the Air is the best thin-and-light machine on the market. In fact, it is so iconic and so deeply associated with how a thin-and-light laptop should look that nearly every ultrabook manufacturer has modeled their machines after the 0.68-inch thick aluminum unibody laptop. The MacBook Air’s design is beyond iconic at this point. ![]()
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