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I’m so, so disappointed.

Subtitled: The Stevenote and the new MacBook Air.

Today brought us one of Apple’s famous Stevenotes. Steve Jobs and his staff reported on the last fiscal year and demoed new products. Only recently did Apple bring back live streams of the show to the internet — we, the crew working together at P8, watched the show projected on a big screen at our shared office space.

Today brought us many exciting new features on the Mac. With Mac OS X Lion, the next big version of Apple’s operating system will incorporate many of the lessons Apple and its customers learned while designing and using iOS products such as iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

As every year, a reworked iLife suite brings new features to make home movie productions and learning instruments more spectacular and exciting.

The Mac App Store will help customers install and update Mac applications even simpler than before — from the comfort of the one click buy and install solution they’re already used from their iOS devices. And thankfully Steve instantly told the crowd that “this will not be the only way to install apps” — everything else would doom the platform, I’m pretty sure.

And of course, FaceTime comes to the Mac — we’d already been waiting for that to happen, so I quickly spotted the new FaceTime icon in the Dock as Apple was still busy demoing iLife products.

I’m writing this on my 13″ MacBook Pro while riding the bus home from the office. I like my iPad, but there’s nothing like a comfortable laptop to quickly sketch out some writing on the road. I like my MacPro and 30″ Cinema Displays, but I need a way to get real work done while traveling. You know where this is going…

MacBook Air.

Today’s Stevenote brought us one more thing:

“Imagine what happened if an iPad and a MacBook hooked up.”

That’s what he said. And I really like the result.

13.3″ of screen real estate, at 1440 × 900 pixels. That’s gorgeous! Not the most up-to-date processor, but my Macs’ processors are idling all day anyway. This thing is fully SSD equipped, so there’s no HD to damage and it’s blazingly fast.

I ♥ it so far. You know that.

But there’s a catch, of course.

The single thing I’m missing most of all on my MacBook Pro? The shiny new MacBook Air doesn’t have it either.

I’m writing this in JustNotes, a SimpleNote client. SimpleNote is a great app that syncs via the cloud. This way I always have the latest version of my thoughts with me on my iPhone and iPad.

But I need WiFi to have my MacBook Pro synced. The number one mobile workhorse is offline. Yeah, I could tether or use some kind of USB modem. Screw that.

I want to put a micro SIM into my laptop.

I’m waiting for a MacBook which has 3G connectivity right built in. And I’m deeply disappointed Apple didn’t deliver this MacBook today.

And I don’t know why. Is it because of battery life? Tell me in the comments.