Four years ago, I looked dubiously at the brand new MacBook Air and declared it ideal for the CxO wanting to look slick in the first class lounge, and said that Apple was trying to create “an entirely new market segment for mid-life crisis computers.”
Today I took over a 13″ MacBook Air, one generation from new, and was delighted to get it.
The revised form factor helped, obviously – two USB ports and no flap to wrangle with – but the use of current processors and solid state drives helped make the leap possible, as did the battery changes. Now, the 13″ Air is arguably Apple’s de facto Macintosh, the machine they have in mind when designing the likes of Lion.
Me, I’m just happy to slice a quarter of the weight out of my daily commute bag, possibly with more to come yet.