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Well, with MB Air holding charge for 8-11 hours you don't really need to have it connected to power all the time.

And even if you run out of juice, you can probably recharge it within 30-60 minutes. So it would only mean this long without a usb drive.

Finally, who knows - perhaps Apple will turn the power brick into a usb hub.

Steve Jobs is smiling from wherever. The more things removed the better for him. Personally I never have owned a laptop and still love my mouse, keyboard and three monitors.

Shades of the original iMac, which ditched everything in favour of just USB.

The original iMac had more ports than the current Air (audio in/out, power, ethernet, modem, USBx2, and an expansion slot).

One port that can do power, data, or video is pretty spiffy. Using that as an excuse to only have one port on the entire machine seems a bit extreme. At least give us one on each side..