MacBook Air has the good looks but function doesn't follow form. Ars Technica told me exactly what I was thinking (although I wasn't clever enough to come up with the "iPod touch Extreme" analogy):
One way to look at the MacBook Air is as the largest and most capable iPod in Apple's line—think of it as an iPod touch Extreme with a built-in keyboard. It is not meant to be your only or main computer—rather, it's a secondary (or even tertiary) computer. It has to be, because it depends on the presence of at least one other computer in order to install anything from an optical drive, unless you buy an external optical drive. Because of this, the MacBook Air is more an extension of your computing life than an entity of its own.
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