I agree with most here. Just another laptop. And an expensive one at that! With my apple bt keyboard, I have virtually the same tactile experience as typing on the mac. Plus, KDE means I have a similar toolset. For 1/4 the price!

this sony from a few years back looks just as small and much nicer

It's not an Apple, so it doesn't count.

Anyway, Sony is almost as bad as Apple in screwing its customers.

Yes but Apple screws them out of their common sense whereas Sony just screws them out of their money.

How easily we forget rootkits and exploding batteries...

And that $55 they charged me for Starwars Galaxies on an account that had expired. Well Sony, you got my $55 when that was the only money I had to my name, years later I've got thousands of bucks in electronics and none of it Sony.

MWAH!

I'm so glad to see that (from the looks of it) everyone here would agree with me; the macbook air is a pointless product. It's a normal macbook stripped of everything you'd normally want (optical drive, network jack, extra USB ports and replaceable battery), with a slower processor to boot. If the thing was priced LOWER than a normal macbook as it should be, this would be a pretty cool product. But, a similarly spec'd (although faster and with all the features) macbook is some $300+ cheaper. This is a child's laptop at a grownups price, and that just doesn't make any sense. Once the macbook and macbook pro get the multi-touchpad, this will have no market.

Perhaps apple will have another price drop and refund for early adopters like they did with the iphone. (Suckers)

macbook air: Measures 0.76 inch at its thickest and 0.16 inch at its thinnest
macbook: Measures 1.1 inches thick

Sure there's the weight issue, but for how little you actually get with the air, I'd gladly spend less, get more and deal with the *slightly* thicker form and heavier result. Then again, I'd be much happier spending half the macbook's price on a similarly spec'd PC and running Linux on it

Sorry for the rant, but it really bothers me that everyone is going crazy over the macbook air.

I find it interesting that after all of these years, there are those quick
to junk whatever Apple comes out with. I have learned long ago
to stay sort of trailing edge because I have gotten burnt buying a
first generation product.

However, I like to see good design and possibilities for future
products. Here we have a completely recyclable machine. We have
a screen that turns on in seconds like the Palms of old made of l.e.d.s

Solid state memory prices are getting cheaper and capacities getting
higher every day.

I am perfectly happy with my older 17" powerbook, but I see what is
coming in the future and I like it. I will be returning to school in the
fall, and the air would be a nice supplement if I had that kind of cash
lying around, which I don't. I thought the Palm Foleo was great for the
same reason - writing notes with a bit of screen real estate, but since
wireless is not yet universal, without the distraction of surfing the
net which is my second favorite past time.

I plan to use my N800, with my apple bluetooth keyboard in the
fall. It is great and light and will work for my purposes. Still I do not
understand why people feel the need to be critics and put a product
down because it does not suit their purposes, or is too expensive.
There will be many many companies that will follow suit and make
stuff to appeal to their customers - however, style and panache
will be necessarily missing. I happen to appreciate the cleverness of the
human imagination.

I don't get it either. Usually it has alot to do with simply the fact the Lord Jobs presented it to the people.

The eee has no hard drive, and battery life isn't all that great. I think the industry needs to focus more on developing a new breakthrough in laptop battery technology. Imagine having a battery which can run your notebook for 12 hours or more.