MacBook Air is considered the world’s thinnest laptop. Look for the ad in YouTube, and you’ll be more convinced. Now you can go around challenging other people to shove their laptops in an envelope; when they can't, you can easily slip your $3000 MacBook Air and tuck it inside. Your jealous friends will worship you forever.
Sure it’s thin; there’s no denying that one factor. It’s got a Multi-Touch trackpad; while you still have to hold the ctrl or whatever button you have to press so that you can zoom in on something while you roll the mouse wheel, here you can just put two fingers on the touchpad and wiki-wiki your way around like a DJ, zooming in and zooming out to your heart's desire. Impressing.
However: Apple, I think you forgot something. Please send my diskdrive through snail mail. Thanks.
Pride of the king’s army, MacBook Air is so impressively thin that it can no longer contain a diskdrive; you still need an external drive to actually play a CD on it. But hey, it still fits in a Manila envelope, right? Neat-o!
Don't get me wrong: if looks could kill, then MacBook Air could finish off the population in one fell swoop. But as it is, in terms of practicality, nobody would want to buy something so expensive and so fragile. Shove it in a bulky bag full of pencil sharpeners, cellphone chargers and a ton of books, and it might not have more resistance than a watered-down sugar biscuit.
MacBook Air: Why the heck not?
