Simon Tsang manages to break the spell of the MacBook Air cast by Steve Jobs for long enough to write an objective appraisal of the thinest laptop yet seen.
Few would argue that the Air is the sexiest notebook ever built - it’s the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of laptops. It appeals to both sexes equally and elicits the same gasps of shock, marvel and delight from either gender. Think I’m exaggerating? Just watch anyone’s reaction upon seeing the Air for the first time in the metal. Average Joe would be able to resist stroking its anodised aluminium surface only for about two nanoseconds.
While the $2,500 price tag, and the three and a half stars out five rating, tell a lot of the story, it is, quite literally, the sexy allure of the Air that keeps the true believers under the Jobs spell however.
