Apple MacBook Air - 13.3" - Core i5 - MacOS X 10.7 Lion - 4 GB RAM - 128 GB SSD

With my recent flirting with various Apple machinery, such as my MacBook and my iMac, it was inevitable that the woman in my life would raise her voice like a matron and complain about something. That day came 2 weeks ago, when she looked me square in the eye, because her other eye wasn’t as good as it used to be, then said, “How come you have two Apple Macs and I don’t have one?” She had a point. I had a portable Mac and a desktop Mac, whereas all she had was a pathetic, slow, unloved HP Mini 110 netbook. In my quest for better computing enjoyment I had almost neglected my wife’s computing ... more

Using Intel's advanced Core i5 and i7 Sandy Bridge processors the new Air is incredibly powerful. These chips give it more than enough horsepower to comfortably outclass anything other than the early 2011 MacBook Pros. With Solid State Drives, the perceived speed of the new Air is faster than the MacBook Pro. Boot times are lightning fast. The Air only lacks power when asked to perform resource hungry work like digital editing. For all routine tasks, the latest Air demolishes my previous 2010 13" MacBook Pro. It's fair to say that it is all the computer that 99.9% of users will ever need ... more