Over the air backup solution?

I'm desperately seeking an over the air backup solution for my 2009 edition macbook air. I've tried carbonite, mozy and dropbox, but all of them bring the computer to a crawl when backing up significant amounts of data -- so really they're unusable as a complete backup solution.
1. What do you use/recommend?
2. With the 2010 edition and faster CPUs, would I no longer have such problems? (if you have experience with this, not theoretically)
Thanks!!
- rob

Hi Rob1977,
I use Dropbox (a lot) and I'm a big fan of their product and it's integration with OS X. However, I've never really seen their service model targeted at the online backup crowd. Personally I think Dropbox is more of a cloud storage for regularly accessed files then a cloud backup solution but I suppose everyone's usage of the product is different.
I had never heard of Mozy, but I decided to try and signup for their free 2GB trial account. So far I'm very unimpressed, the speed of upload/download is about 40% slower than Dropbox (same location, same machine). Although, I did not notice any slow down on my 13" MBP or my 11" MBA when using Dropbox I definitely saw it with Mozy (as compared to Dropbox).

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