Jason Snell over at the Mothership spent some quality time this past week with the tapeworm-thin MacBook Air (while the rest of us are obsessively tracking FedEx flights waiting for ours), and wrote up a thorough and painstakingly-honest monster review, analyzing and answering most users’ common questions and concerns.
What’d he think? Don’t ask me, I didn’t actually read it. But I assume he loved it more than his children (does he have children?), declared it the One True God, and will spend the rest of his days on the street sandwiched by two cardboard signs that evangelize the Coming of the Air and preach its purchase as the only path to divine salvation.
Wait, what? He gave it a 3.5 out of 5?! What the hell man?! Where’s your loyalty and submission to King Jobs and unconditional acceptance of all Apple products unleashed under his reign? Heresy! Heresy!
Fine. Whatever. Sure, Jason ends with, “I realized that sacrificing some storage space and some processor power was ultimately worth it for me” — but did he bow down before it and commit his soul to the Air and its wondrous LED-backlit display? Nope. So if you’re interested in this “fair” and “well-thought-out” examination of The Awesomest Thing Ever, go ahead and read Jason’s “factual” and “experience-based” review, and check out the blasphemous Macworld video review while you’re at it.
But don’t let them mess with your mind. The Air will save us all from the satanic clutches of > 1” notebooks, and I’m sure it will prove its perfection to me when I receive mine on Friday. If not…well, I’m not sure I could handle such disappointment.
If you read my review, you'd know that I do indeed have children...
-jason
I think that people are missing the point of this product. I have the PowerBook G$ as my main machine, and therefore the Air would never replace it, but I have never once said;
"Wow, I am so glad that my PowerBook has such a small footprint."
I have said "Thank god it's so light." and "Wow I wish that I had more screen real estate to play with".
I think Apple nailed it, thin, light, and a good sized screen. Good functionality for web browsing, listening to music. I can't really edit videos or photographs in a big way on my PowerBook, so I wouldn't lament the fact that the Air can't either.