Apple has been more aggressive lately in pushing its iCloud online storage service to users of devices such as the MacBook Air. The company offers a free 5 gigabytes (GB) or storage, with additional space available for a yearly fee. One of the benefits of this service is that it is very well integrated with Apple's other products.

For example, you can download music and other items you had previously purchased on iTunes from iCloud if you accidentally lost or deleted them from your device. It's easy to move items on your desktop directly to the service without opening a new application or installing any new software, and programs such as iWork provide seamless connectivity with the service.

But extra storage space on iCloud is a bit more expensive than it is on other cloud services such as Dropbox and Google Drive. Apple news site 9to5Mac goes into detail about some of these other cloud options, which typically allow you to add more space for a lot less money. For example, you can expand your Google Drive to 100 GB for just $60 a year, while 55GB of space on iCloud will set you back $100 annually.

Whether you're using iCloud or another service, we highly recommend checking out the MacBook Air the next time you are thinking about upgrading your laptop. The lightweight, streamlined construction of the Air makes it the ultimate mobile computing solution, and coupling its solid state drive with a cloud storage service will give you superb performance in terms of both speed and space. Check out the latest MacBook Air by visiting the PortableOne online store today.