Apple MacBook Air 5th Gen

The sound is adequate, graphics are suitable for light gaming, SSD is quiet and quick, display is bright but not bright enough to overuse the battery and the battery is adequate (although if they were able to add in a bigger battery without changing the weight I probably would be a little happier).

Screen: Perhaps you might find this strange but I prefer the Macbook Air screen over the pro or retina because its less glossy than both.

For the unacquainted, TN panels are the bottom shelf of LCD panels in terms of color quality.

The macbook air is easy to carry around, thin, light but still I can do almost everything that I did in my macbook pro.

I love the quality of the screen, the feel of typing on it, the trackpad, the backlit keyboard, how light and thin it is...but part of my wishes that I'd gone for the 13" model.

Portability: Both the 11" and 13" model have set the standard for the portable "ultrabook", and competition from Asus, Samsung, Lenovo, Dell, HP, and anyone else has used these laptops' dimensions as the benchmark.

The battery charges pretty fast - it's at 22% right now and OS X estimates that it'll take an hour and 16 minutes to charge the rest of the battery.

10/1/12. The battery life on this thing is pretty good.

When I first got it, everything's good, except for the battery life.

I've decided to switch to macs because of 1) extremely good experience with iPhones and iPads (I admit they are not perfect, but they are by far the best package I've tried, and I used to be very into gadgets until I started using iPhone/ iPad); 2) saw my roommate using it and was really impressed by the battery life and the size.

Battery life is still a solid 5-7hrs.

I can easily work on my Macbook for much more than 5 hours, not just browsing but also watching a movie.

The SSD hard drive on the MacBook Air makes a big difference in performance vs. the HDD drives.

Compared to the 2011 Airs, the 2012 Airs have fewer improvements and the performance gain is much less dramatic (the main exception being the much faster SSD).

This is what gives the Air it's long battery life, and its impossibly sleek dimensions, but the great thing about solid state hard drives is that they are much more reliable than optical hard drives, especially in laptops, where they experience drops, shock, and impact more than desktops.