I have a little—and let me stress a little—new Mac envy right now. Like many other people, the new MacBook Air has captured my imagination.
I went over to the local Apple Store today and played with the 13-inch model (the 11-inch is just too friggin' small as far as I'm concerned). My initial list of the two things that need to change before I would buy one remain: more storage and a backlit keyboard, but damn…it is still one sexy beast. And despite its older processor, it's fast! Applications opened almost instantaneously—or at least notably faster than on my MBP.
I've only had my MBP for a year and still love it to death, so I'm obviously not in the market for a new laptop right now, but when it comes time to retire The Precious (and assuming the two items on my Airbook wish list have been put into production) I'll definitely be looking at the Air line when the time comes.
While I was there, I had the opportunity to check out Office 2011 as well. I was not impressed; at least not impressed enough to want to upgrade. One of the biggest hurdles I had to get over when switching from Windows to Mac was the loss of Outlook, and while I was glad to hear that Microsoft was bringing it back in this release, I don't even need it any more, having happily moved on to Postbox.