Well, in terms of movies: you break the law, if you extract them to the harddrive. For the rest, you are right, it is possible to carry a drive. But then we ar

Well, in terms of movies: you break the law, if you extract them to the harddrive. For the rest, you are right, it is possible to carry a drive. But then we are back to the clutter on the desk that we had in the 80s and 90s and just got rid of. This is progress? Without an optical drive works only properly, if you download the data or get them on non optical media. I would be fine though, if I could download movies and music to an external storage and the DRM would be on that storage, not on a computer. A storage with at least the same possibilities that we have with CDs and DVDs today (import to iTunes without DRM!). As long as that is not possible, the Macbook Air remains a pretty good second computer IMHO.