Now that I have my new Air I can't help fondling it, opening and closing the lid, turning it over-and-over, just to feel it between my fingers; the Air is simply gorgeous to behold. This is my second Apple laptop. Prior to the Air I had an iBook G4. The iBook is still a fairly sleek, good-looking laptop but along side the Air it looks positively tubby and that's before one has picked it up. The weight difference is extremely noticeable, with the Air feeling exactly like an ultra-portable laptop. My Air was charged when it came out of the box and booted up Leopard pretty quickly. I didn't use the new wireless version of Migration Assistant as I did't feel like cluttering up the Air with lots of stuff I might never use. I did do a sync via .Mac to set up my email accounts, iCal calendars, Safari bookmarks, Keychain items and Address Book contacts. This has been my first encounter with Apple's MagSafe charger. I thought it might become disconnected when the Air was placed on an uneven surface (e.g. a bed) but it doesn't seem to; it hangs on pretty tightly! I haven't had the Air for that long but so far I think it will need charging more than my iBook. This may be because I have been using the Air in bed so the backlighting of the keyboard is on a lot. The intensity of the backlit keyboard can be dimmed by a key on the uppermost row of keys. I imagine this would preserve the battery. The Air's backlit LED screen is nice and bright. Brighter than my iBook. The automatic backlit keyboard is really nice and the keys have a satisfying feel to them. I have no issue with the white-on-black of the keys that some reviewers have commented on. The Air connected to my Airport network without me having to intervene at all. Unlike an iBook, the Air has a single speaker which outports through a small 'slit' on the front of the keyboard. Listening to podcasts is okay. I ripped my copy of 'Atonement' with Handbrake on my iMac Intel 2 GHz. The rip itself took a few hours and the resulting file was 1.4GB. I turned on File Sharing (Preferences>Sharing) on the iMac and dropped the Atonement.mp4 file in to my Public Folder. From upstairs, I was then able to connect wirelessly with the iMac and transfer the movie over to the Air. The quality of the movie on the Air's screen was really nice with no blurring and natural colours and black-blacks. Playback started off okay but it did start to stutter slightly about 30 minutes in. More testing required but I anticipate movie-watching on the Air to be a very popular pastime for me. I noticed the Air got pretty darn hot while I was watching the movie. It was charging at the same time so it could have had something to do with this. The built-in iSight camera works flawlessly over a wireless connection to my Airport Extreme Base Station and my iChat Buddies say my broadcasted image is very crisp. Don't get bogged down worrying about the lack of an optical drive. Apple knew what they were doing when they designed it out of the Air. To be honest, I have burned very few CD-Rs on my iMac, and I have already told you how I got to watch a movie on the Air easily. The UK iTunes Store should have movie rentals too soon. Should you need to install some software from a DVD, Apple has given you Remote Disk. To sum up, I think the MacBook Air is a lovely piece of kit. It is quite expensive but when you consider the design work that has gone into getting the form factor this thin, and the superior materials and construction involved, you won't mind too much denting your plastic for an Air. You certainly will want to show off the Air to your friends.