Apple MacBook Air - Expert Reviews

Review summary: Browsing through Apple's growing list of products, you'll find there's no shortage of lightweight, powerful laptops that rival, and to some extent surpass, many of their Windows counterparts. For instance, there are the MacBook Pro 17-inch and 15-inch ...

Pros: Thinnest laptop on the market. Simply gorgeous. Amazing 13-inch display on a 3-pound chassis. Full-size keyboard. Doesn't load ultra-low-voltage processors. Eco-friendly. Gesture-enabled touchpad. Reasonable prices

Cons: Only one USB port, three ports total. No ExpressCard or card-reader option. Battery is not user upgradable. Productivity may take a hit with only 3 hours of battery life running Vista ; Watch the MacBook Air Video Review

Verdict: The MacBook Air is officially the thinnest laptop, and the lightest of those with a 13-inch screen. But there were compromises that had to be made.

Review summary: We take a look at Apple's latest and sleekest notebook.

Review summary: As was heavily predicted before its unveiling, Apple's new laptop, called the MacBook Air, is not quite an ultraportable but is still very small. Mimicking the 13-inch silhouette of the current MacBook line, it's .76-inch thick at its thickest part. ...

Review summary: Is the world's thinnest laptop any good?

Pros: Thin, 13.3-inch screen, light, option of solid state drive

Cons: No optical drive, no Ethernet, no FireWire, no replaceable battery, expensive

Verdict: Will it impress your mates? Of course it will. But for us there are too many sacrifices

Review summary: This is supposed to be one of the thinnest notebooks from Apple to date and it shows. In an effort to reduce the girth, the MacBook Air -- as it has come to be known -- appears to lack any Ethernet connectivity whatsoever..

Verdict: The Steve Jobs keynote address is scheduled for early tomorrow morning, so we'll find out pretty soon whether this leaked rendering is for real or not. In the meantime, you can gawk at the image and consider the possibilities with the rumored MacBook ...