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About that 11-inch MacBook Air!

9to5Mac has a story today about Apple officially declaring obsolete the 11-inch MacBook Air.

Of all of the Macs I’ve owned over the years, the 11-inch Air that I used years ago undoubtedly logged more keystrokes from me than any other.

The Air was sold from 2010 to 2015 and my recollection is mine was a second generation Air. It went with me everywhere I went – home, office, coffee shops, libraries, client locations, you name it.

At the office and at home I had large displays that I plugged into the Air. The transition back and forth from the builtin screen to the larger displays worked great.

I can’t really remember why I eventually retired it. I think I upgraded to a 13-inch Air. But I’ve got so many fond memories of that smaller Air and what a great platform it was for all of the work I needed to do. I was always sad that Apple never saw fit to replace it but instead upscale to the larger models. Looks like it’s finally time to declare those 11-inch Airs to just be museum pieces!

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An 11-Inch MacBook Air

A few months ago, I bought an 11-inch MacBook Air. I’ve been totally blown away by this computer – it’s far and away the best Mac I’ve ever had. Here’s my story…

Why this 11-inch MacBook Air? I decided I wanted a “killer” writing machine – something I could just use for writing. This little Mac was going to be it. And, it is!

I happened to swing by the Palo Alto Apple Store one day and it turned out they had the max config of the 11-inch Air in stock – amazingly – so I decided to just go for it. (I suspect Apple’s gotten very smart about stocking their top of line configs in their stores – just for folks like me!)

What’s the max config? Currently, it’s a 1.8GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 with 4 GB RAM and 256 GB Flash storage (instead of a hard disk).

I bought it, brought it home, quickly configured it, installed some essential software and was quickly up and running – quite seamlessly. By the way, today, I mostly live in Chrome – using it for email, calendar, etc. Chrome screams on the Air. For that matter, Safari does too. Most things do – even PowerPoint!

I couldn’t be happier with this little Air. It’s an amazing machine – no spinning beach balls, super fast performance, and a delightfully tiny form factor – and a beautiful display. This is the future – these amazingly fast, Flash-based machines – a great way to “fly”!

But, then, there’s also the new iPad… 😉