First Impressions of the brand new MacBook Airs [MacbookAir]

The new MacBook Airs are slimmer, snappier, and better suited to cutting cheese than ever. Here’s what everyone is saying about actually using them.

SlashGear says that they’re ” slick, beautiful machines so one can likely persuade many Apple Store shoppers just from a short play in-store.” Also:

The 11.6-inch Air is extremely thin, similar to an iPhone 4 at its narrowest point at the front. Nonetheless, it’s also solid and bend-free, and the keyboard is as easy to exploit as an ordinary MacBook Pro. The display is Apple’s first 16:9 aspect panel, as is the 13.3-inch model.

The bigger MacBook Air has larger function keys than its smaller sibling, but both power up almost instantly; basically, as soon as you may have the screen open to a usable angle, OS X is able and watching for you.

They weren’t kidding about that iPhone 4 thing.

Engadget says the 11.6″ version is the ” tiniest, thinnest, most lust-worthy laptops we’ve ever seen.” As for the 13-incher:

It definitely feels significantly bigger than the 11-incher, and we noticed the function keys are standard MacBook size, rather then the shrunken ones on the 11. We also noticed that it was seriously instant-on – we popped the lid open and closed several times while taking photos, and it was able to go the second we opened it.

Over at Forbes, Brian Caulfied says they do indeed boot up like lightning:

Apple’s letting the click paw these new machines right away, and the metal-skinned machines look sleek, in fact. They’re Macs. Essentially the most remarkable feature, however, isn’t cosmetic, it’s these machine’s boot time.

Bootup takes lower than 15 seconds, in step with my watch. That’s a lot lower than the roughly 50 seconds it takes my trusty Windows laptop to come back to life.

Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing snapped these photos:

We’ll be adding more impressions as they pop up.

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