I upgraded from an MC375LL/A mid-2010 13" MacBook Pro to a MC224LL/A mid-2012 11.6" MacBook Air, and the difference is like night and day. My new MBA takes 5 - 7 seconds from pressing the power button to login screen versus about two minutes with my old MBP. The main hardware differences are: Core i5 vs. Core 2 Duo, 1600MHz vs 1067MHz RAM memory, and (very important) SSD vs. mechanical HDD secondary storage. My new MBA doesn't even feel warm when playing Civilization V whereas my old MBP became very hot within minutes, and the graphics performance is at least twice as fast. As for the ergonomics, the keyboard really is full size, and the display is not noticeably smaller than the 13" MBP, yet the 11.6" display has more pixels. Most importantly to me, my MBA weighs less than half of my old MBP. I really am very happy with this 11.6" MacBook Air.
Yaniv Bar-kana :
I had the 13' MBA, and got this when my teenager took it from me (upgraded to 8 GB RAM, highly recommended). Extremely happy. The portability is fantastic. Strangely, the 13' MBA now seems bulky and heavy to me...I can use it in bed, on the sofa, and during travel, and have largely abandoned my desktop imac. Everything runs quietly, smoothly and swiftly, including windows 8 on Parallels. I do not see the 11' screen as too small for my usual work, including surfing and creating documents. I figure the small hard disk will not be an issue in view of the increasing use of cloud services, and likely I can buy in the future some USB flash memory when prices go down. As with all apple computers, build quality is excellent. Very happy with the 11' MBA.
William G. Fuller "WGF1811" (Herrin, IL):
I ordered the MacBook after having to return the Asus Zen Book. At first I was reluctant because of the price premium over the Asus but I am very pleased with it. Amazon lowered the price of the MacBook by $100 not too long after I returned the Asus. I felt that I received a very good deal.
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