MacBook Air Review: 11.6" Air

Apple's 11.6-inch MacBoook is all the Air I need | Betanews: "Fun -- better stated, joy -- is the best way to describe using the 11.6-inch MacBook Air. The delight started from booting up the notebook, which took about 13 seconds. Wakeup is nearly instantaneous. Bootup time is crucial to endearing a positive emotional response about a computer. Who doesn't get frustrated, or even angry, when being forced to wait for the desktop to appear, wait again for the network connection and wait longer still for apps to be useable? I've long asserted that Windows Vista got its bad rap in part because the bootup time was too long. It created the perception, along with annoying security prompts, that Vista was slower than Windows XP. The 'wow' Vista marketing promised became 'oh noooo!' Microsoft was right to make shortening bootup and wakeup times priorities for Windows 7."

MC: The main disappointment I have with the new MacBook Air laptops is that they removed the keyboard backlight feature. My wife, who would be a prime candidate for this laptop (she currently has the earlier model Air) said she "doesn't want it without the keyboard backlight."