It's always interesting how people in the Apple bubble just ignore what the 90% of computers that are not Macs are doing. It's like when people talk about the

It's always interesting how people in the Apple bubble just ignore what the 90% of computers that are not Macs are doing. It's like when people talk about the IPhone as completely new but ignore Blackberry and Nokia Communicators. Sure, they were not nearly as good, but they were there. The Air was Apple's reaction to netbooks which were appearing at the time. I remember seeing an Air for the first time, which instead of an AUD 300 netbook was AUD 1200 or something. But it still looked super neat. The early machines with Celerons or something had pretty dismal performance at high price. But when the i5 machines came out with SSDs they were and are sweet. This is being typed on a MBA from 2013. The battery life is still very good and the performance is fine for most things I do with it. However, if I bought a similar machine now it probably wouldn't be a Mac because well, Apple just don't care about much or perhaps most of the range now and the Windows machines have got better and better. Surfaces are where people most excited. I still have a netbook too. When you're travelling and don't want to take a machine a $AUD 250 netbook is remarkable. A 'real' computer that I do a few things on that is cheap enough to be almost disposable.