@streakmachine Early MacBook airs used IDE SSDs. A 64 GB one like that would work wonders for such a device. OWC still make such things, I believe.
I can offer some sort of evidence of my assertion. I have a faulty G3 'Pismo" PowerBook which was given to me by a friend. It will not start from it's internal drive, so I bought a Firewire 400 CompactFlash card reader & a cheap, not very fast CF card of 32 GB. I used my G5 PowerMac to install Tiger & OS 9 onto that CF card. It's of greater capacity than the original 20 GB HDD & faster to boot up as well.
// @jussipekonen