I’ve had a Macbook Air now for 2 days. All I can say is “wow“.

I have to admit that I had my doubts. Before I actually had the unit I actually had cancelled my order twice - each time quickly reordering (and bumping my place further and further back in the queue - doh!). My latest order was due to ship on March 3rd, but when called the local store on Thursday and found out they had them in stock, I cancelled order #3 and ran over. It was a tough call, but I ended up with the 1.6ghz/80gb HDD version. While I didn’t really care about SSD, going with 1.6ghz vs 1.8ghz was a harder decision. In the end, I just didnt want to wait the extra 3-4 weeks.

Instead of dealing with migration assistant, I just plowed the machine and started fresh, only installing what I needed. With all the developer tools, misc apps, etc., I still have 43gb free.

How’s the unit performing? Very well, actually. Even though I ended up with 1.6ghz, it’s been totally fine for most of the work I’ve been doing on it. The keyboard seems better than the one I had on the Macbook Pro, and the screen is nice and bright, although I wish the resolution was a bit higher. The battery life has also been really good - I plopped down on the couch just before 8pm, and at 10pm I still had another 2:10 on the battery.

Next week will be the real test when I travel with it, but so far I’m one satisfied customer. While I’m sure movie encoding will be a bit slower than on the MBP, I’m certainly not missing ports or having a built in DVD drive.