How can something that isn't even on the market yet be a "flop"?

Yikes!

Now if they could make it without a screen, keyboard and hard drive they would really have something.
Personally, I don't like paying twice the price to get half the product.

the MacBook Air is for people who travel a lot AND don't need to do much while they are traveling AND aren't price-sensitive.

I travel a lot but a machine with just one usb port, no built-in ethernet port, no internal optical drive, and limited battery life does not cut it. By the time I added the external optical drive, powered usb hub, ethernet dongle, etc. I might as well pack a MacBook Pro.

Some people will like it and buy it. Others will not, or not have a need or just have a need to keep piling on one of the most innovative companies in the world.

Commercialism, corporatism or fanaticism -- call it what you like, it's just another specialized product for someone who needs or desires it.

I'm a Mac owner from the mid-80's and I don't care a twit who and who doesn't like it, only if it sells and makes my Apple shares go up.

As I saw on the Today show there is no flash drive, no dvd so you will be limited unless you buy the attachments. So what is the upside to this???

If I was someone who travelled a lot, I would def. buy one, since I don't like to lug around my Mac Book Pro, even down to the local coffee shop. The Air is not a good principle computer, but it was never intended to be. It was meant to be a road warrior, to supplement what you use at home. The only thing preventing me from buying it is the price tag, and that I just got my Pro.

Wonder if Apple got the memo about the economy. A longtime mac user (I own three for business purposes), I am having a hard time thinking about gulping down one more piece of Apple hardware with a 2x markup for slick design. How about a fast, powerful, affordable gray box?

To all the trolls and technosycophants...it's called the Macbook AIR", as in wireless....

defintely not for IT, or power user...I do lament the high cost and lack of ports, but it's not a replacement for the Macbook, or Macbook Pro.

It's not going to be the door buster, but hey you can't knock one out of the park every time...

to console yourself just think about the 4k Dell laptop with the 59.00 custom World of Warcraft case, and a 99 Figureprints coupon....talk about overpriced.

Can anyone say "complete ripoff"?

Common~ Like I am going to pay that much money for something that only has 1 USB port and zero DVD drive? With no disk drive how is one going to install new programs?

Apple is going to sell people half a computer and people will buy it because they are suckers for flashy advertising and they are idiots about computers.

OOOH, it has an 80 gig hard drive!!

Please, I've had an 80 gig hard drive forever, and really it's getting to small for my needs.

What's really important is the processing power and amount of memory it has, and mac has always come up short in my book -- as does Dell, Gateway, etc. I build my own computers, that way I can "hot rod" them as much as I want.

Are you kidding? It's a huge success. What is it with site? Nothing liberal about it.

I hope it's a flop -- unless you can fold it up and stuff it in your pocket, I don't care how thin it is.

I have a MacBook. It works. It is barely a year old. What did I do wrong? Why dangle this product in front of me while mine still smells of silica gels?

In the US people travel mostly by car so heavier laptops don't provide a serious problem. Outside the US people walk or ride the train. If you try that for a while you will find that your shoulder begins to ache from the the weight of you laptop and accessories. This is a godsend for those people. If you look at the lightweight laptops sold in Asia you will find that the MacBook Air is not overpriced. In fact, you will find more expensive laptops with just 1GHz processors or worse. The MacBook Air is not meant as a lightweight machine for the power user. It is a utility machine for note taking, presentations and accessing email and the internet. This describes the needs of many people. The MacBook Air may or may not succeed but it clearly cannot be characterized as a flop.

As far as ports are concerned, it is possible that this will gain more ports in the future. The first 15 inch Intel MacBook did not gain a FW800 port for about 18 months.

the airbook is for airheads
they should have called it the 'vapor' instead

Total Flop.

It doesn't do anything differnt or better than last year's model. American companies are not going to shell out millions so their employees can have a little bit lighter, thinner notebook.