My main computer, the PowerMac G5, has a printer, a keyboard, a trackball, a media reader for my digital still camera, and three disk drives, one of which I have set up to do automated Time Machine backups, which are really cool.

If I got an Air, I would probably get a Time Capsule with 1TB of disk space and use that for most of my data storage. Time Capsule is a wireless router and a backup appliance and it lets you hook up your wired printer.

The only non-wireless peripheral I'd want to use with it is the media reader. Maybe some day they will let you hook it up to the Time Capsule too.

Thus, there is less of a need for USB than there once was, but of course it depends on how often you use your scanner.

But as you say, that's because I would be actively using multiple computers. I know most people are a bit different.

But if you really wanted an Air, you could keep your existing machine and use its disk drive for backup and peripherals. So you would print through it.

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