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• I can find the Air very compelling as an ideal device for large-scale text and display operations: writing, watching video, and doing presentations. The Air will sell very well among folks who pitch to investors regularly; it lives in the same place in the catalog with Nokia's $1000+ superphones, the "I can be serious and have bling and the same time" crowd.
  
  My one major concern, though, is that a device that thin can't have the structural rigidity needed for long life. People are always picking up laptops by the corner, and in some brands this constant flexing under its own weight causes the motherboard to short out eventually. Thinkpads were notorious for this, which is why Lenovo redesigned the whole "roll cage" in the hopes that the post-T40 models wouldn't die quite so quickly. The Air seems ready to be a victim of its own audience: people who are always on the go. In reply to: "Apple's MacBook Air: A design review"

  January 16, 2008

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