No Backlit Keyboard? GLOSSY screen????!!!!!

Macbook air should have included a 3g sim card - happy to trade a couple of hours for backlit keyboard and 3G

Spin it how you want. People are crying for 20 pages over a lightbulb. Man up and flip on a light.

Hutch51 wrote:
Spin it how you want. People are crying for 20 pages over a lightbulb. Man up and flip on a light.

Quit being personal. I don't need to man up.... & I can't flip on a light. I live in a cave and there's no electricity.

Actually its 5 leds and a light guide ....not a bulb.... :0|

Apple is polling owners concerning the next MacBook Air. They never mention the keyboard!

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/14/applecustomer_survey_sparks_hope_for_brawnier_macbook_airs_with_built_in3g.html

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I've been looking very closely at getting a MBA since my black MacBook is going on 5 years old. I currently don't have a backlit keyboard but lately really wish I did. I assumed the new MBA came with the backlit keyboard and had NO IDEA until I went on product page didn't see anything mentioned then googled it and saw that it didn't

Major disappoint for me. I will definitely hold off on getting on and then maybe they will have 3G added as well!

Now if i can just decide if I want an 11 or 13 inch.

I was in the Apple store today looking at them - then found this thread.

Sorry, but is is a big deal. I have a unibody macbook without it, and it is a complete pain in the dark - which my wife like when she watches TV (every night!).

Luxury feature? maybe. Luxury Computer? Definitely!

I would definitely buy one, but not now. Plus, my wife is hesitant to take this one off my hands due to lack of that feature.

It's one thing with the old white computers and keys...entirely different with black keys!

Am really lost by what the heck Apple is doing lately. The new MBP is out, guess what?

- Same exact body as the old one: same weight, same size, same dimensions, same everything.
- Battery life went down from 10 to 7 hours.
- Screen resolution is LOWER than the MBA's 13", they left it at 1280 by 800.
- The 15"+ models are ridiculously expensive, $1800 to $2500
- 320GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm HDD? No SSD on a 2011 MBP lappy?

All they did is slap me a new CPU, added me a some new high speed port which is barely supported so far, and a new graphic card? Booooooooo.

@TOS99

Get a Dell XPS.

I thought you were going to say they'd omitted the backlit keyboard..... but fortunately they haven't.

Its a MBP, they cannot. I will wait for the next revision of the MBA, if it does not have a backlit keyboard, am grabbing a laptop from somewhere else.

@TOS99

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/28/intel-outs-ssd-510-series-with-6gbps-sata-int erface-500mbps-tra/

This is the only reason I want Pro! but it is too heavy to bring to office, just like my 2009 MBP...

Wow, now that is putting one heck of a lot of priority on a backlit keyboard. If one appreciates what Apple products bring to the table in total, then it would be very hard to select another brand due to the lack of this particular feature. However, I do understand there could be users who absolutely don't think they could live without the lighted keys ...I guess you must be one of those. For your sake I hope Apple sees fit to offer this capability.

Really don't understand all this hoopla over the backlit keys.
So I'm sitting here at my desk reading this with my Air and it's nearly 11pm. Turn off the light to see if I can type by sight...and guess what I can see the lettering on the keys.
Turn the brightness down to 2...I can still see them.
Turn the brightness down to 1 and I can still see them.
Put the laptop on my lap and re-position the screen...yes I still see them!

The characters on the keys are white and reflect light from the screen (unless you're face is directly over the keyboard). So I don't get it??

Thought about getting the IPad 2, very little of interest in the new version so decided to go for the Mac book air.
No back lit keyboard so no purchase. A pity.