The MacBook Air is attractive, durable, thin and light - all qualities you want in a laptop.
It says a lot that the 2010 revamp of Apple's ultra-thin laptop was the lynchpin that single-handedly forced Intel (INTC, Fortune 500) to create the specifications for rival PC ultrabooks in 2011. Three years later, it's still the gold standard for laptop hardware -- and CNNMoney's Best in Tech for the Apple laptop category.
The MacBook Air's aluminum chassis is near perfect -- so much so that Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) has gone nearly four years without making a major change to it.
On paper, the MacBook Air's low-power, dual-core Intel Core processor may seem modest, but it has been well-optimized to handle nearly anything you could throw at it. Web browsing, HD video and light photo and video editing are tasks well within the scope of the MacBook Air.
It also easily provides users with an entire workday's worth of power before having to recharge. Coders, gamers, and creative professionals will likely need more from their machines, but for the rest of us, the MacBook Air is plenty of machine. Apple's higher end MacBook Pro laptops are objectively more powerful. But for most people, the added benefits of the MacBook Pro simply don't justify the considerable extra cost over the MacBook Air, which starts at $999.
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