Optical drive: This is another one I've been on the fence on. Sometimes I do like to grab a couple DVD's for watching on flights or in hotels. As far as software installation goes, I can do that when I have my desktop handy at home or download. I may just get the superdrive and keep it in the bag for the occasions when I need it.
Bit more effort but you can always copy it to a USB stick or onto the HD itself. The optical drive isn't very big so you can just slip it into the bag as you said. It'll save on your battery anyway if you do this.
Yeah, but it's basically all the same components that are in the MacBook, just stuffed in a smaller case. I can live with that.
I think thats the problem though. They've wedged it into a really thin small case and it overheats. It will start to act oddly and crash if you push it. Apple released some fix for it which made the fan run properly but some people still complain about it.
The main issues I have with it are that it doesn't have an ethernet port and only 1 USB socket. I know you can solve that with a USB ethernet adapter and a USB hub respectively but the whole point of the MBA is that its very portable. If you need to lug around a sack of peripheral then its kinda losing the point...
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