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It is not an Apple bash.
As noted on an earlier thread, Apple changed the spec on the Air, and didn't tell anyone. Especially not home users. And few of their own techies.
They certainly did not tell their UK/Ireland techie help line, who spent a couple of days being unable to figure out the problem. They had to talk to Calif to figure it out.
And my contact in Austin, the "Americas Operations Center", asked the (fewer) techie people in Austin, and they had not heard of it.
It is not a bashing of any sort. However, if someone in a shop had told me that the Air would not do what the 2 does, I'd have bought the bigger one. Now I am stuck with something that does not do what I want.