“After finally receiving a MacBook, that went on sale April 10th, I’ve been able to put it through it’s paces,” Mark Reschke reports for T-GAAP. “I’ve used the MacBook in coffee shops, traveled over 700 miles with it, pushed a full NBA playoff stream through it, crushed out hundreds of emails, edited a dozen or so Pixelmator images and worked over the charger and keyboard thoroughly.”
“To quickly summarize this new MacBook — it is the perfect road warrior laptop and business companion, eliminating any need for an iPad, and for many the MacBook Air,” Reschke reports. “Pardon my excitement, as I’ve been computing with a 2010, 13″ MacBook Pro. The most striking element in transitioning from my legacy laptop to the MacBook is the size. The MacBook is thin and light, but it appears almost fragile. Of course the MacBook is anything but fragile, instead it is amazingly stout.”
“Clearly my western ways have trained me to think bigger is better, more rugged, etc. That concept is clearly dated and wrong, at least when applied to the new MacBook,” Reschke reports. “Apple’s new poster-child for slim could be mistaken as a netbook or cheap-o laptop, but once word gets around this is Apple’s next wünderkind computer, no one is going to be smirking. MacBook evny? Absolutely.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Our 11-inch MacBook Air units are our favorite Macs ever, but we’ve got a strong feeling that they’re about to be superseded.
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