Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal reviews the new Apple MacBook Air, which (.again.) is officially described as the World’s Thinnest Notebook. Walt describes the MacBook Air as pleasing and surprising, likes the screen & full-size keyboard but deducts points for: no removable battery, no optical drive, no Ethernet jack etc. Generally he says that the MBA makes for a competent computer for non-power-users.

..most reviewers seem to regard laptops as office equipment not unlike photocopiers & fax machines and seem taken aback when the latest offering is less than industrial-strength, but from another perspective the MBA is an internet appliance with some additional features and a good OS, a degeeked computer not-unsuitable for bimmers, a deflated notebook with the air squeezed out — “with extraneous details and features eliminated“.

Apple’s MacBook Air Is Beautiful and Thin, But Omits Features - WSJ, January 24, 2008

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