11-Inch MacBook Air Is Ultra Portable And Surprisingly Powerful [Review] - Leander Kahney

Kahney raves about the 11” MacBook Air. Mine will be delivered today, although I goosed it up with 4G ram and the 1.6 GHz chipset.

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The MacBook Air is a polarizing machine. Many critics, especially in the tech community, say it doesn’t do this or that. It doesn’t have a DVD drive. It doesn’t have FireWire or Ethernet. It’s not powerful enough.

But for the vast majority of consumers, it is powerful enough. And its compromises — the lack of an optical drive, for example — are irrelevant. If you haven’t moved on from optical media, you soon will be. It’s a streaming world these days.

At the rollout event, Jobs said: “‘We asked ourselves, ‘What would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked up?’ Well, this is the result. … We think it’s the future of notebooks.”

Jobs is right.