The 11" MacBook Air would have suited my needs if it had come a little sooner.
My work/home workhorse is a loaded 15" Mac Book Pro, which I am devoted to, but it's too heavy for the travel & portability I sometimes require. When the iPad came out, I decided that, alas, a Mac netbook was probably not coming any time soon. I needed an ultraportable for personal use -- the volume of typing & file choices I need can't be handled by iPad -- and after several weeks of reading/comparing, I settled on an Asus 1018PB, which I'm very pleased with... 3 USB ports, webcam, chiclet keys, very long battery life. I don't miss the optical drive at all.
BUT -- it's a Windows machine which for me will never be as good. I'd love to have had a small & light Mac netbook IF Apple put all the right stuff on it. My guess is that they won't. I'm VP of an all-Mac company, and Apple may be rah-rah when it comes to pleasing the customers; but sometimes I'm not sure they actually consider the niche market for their products and equip them accordingly. Apple is about "cool"... first and foremost.
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