Well, it was bound to happen eventually, though I didn't see it coming so soon: the day before yesterday, I became the proud owner of a shiny new MacBook Air. That took, what...less than a month after shipping? I really ought to start keeping a log of when I buy stuff, and calculate the mean time between release and acquisition.
I'm using the MBA right this second to type up this post, sitting at the bar at a Starbucks in Chesapeake. This is exactly the sort of thing this machine was created for; it's so light, I could barely tell I was carrying a laptop around in my backpack. It's thin enough that it fits perfectly in the back pocket of my MacBook Pro's case - the one meant for carrying papers, magazines, that sort of thing. It's the sort of machine you carry around when you don't really feel like carrying a laptop around.
The MBA is not without its faults; the 4200 RPM hard drive is not exactly the fastest thing around, and the machine frequently stutters under heavy disk load; tasks such as Spotlight indexing and permission repairs take significantly longer than on my other Macs, and the entire system occasionally hiccups for no apparent reason. The battery on this particular system takes an inordinately long time to charge, another issue that seems to plague some machines and not others.
Those issues aside, the Air is an outstanding machine that could conceivably serve well as either a secondary or primary computer, depending on what you intend to use it for. For myself, it will fit into the 'secondary' role, mainly for web browsing, blogging, and writing projects; that it takes up very little space and thus fits well into a locker is a nice bonus.
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