MacBook Air Is Thin, But Still Just As Large A Footprint

There is no denying that the MacBook Air's thinness makes it visually striking. But I'm not convinced of the utility of that thinness. Other than allowing Apple to declare the Air the current winner of the race to design the thinnest laptop, it seems that the Air has slimmed down in the least important dimension.

Yes, I'll grant you, I can almost slide the MacBook Air under my office door. But I don't believe the extra thinness is going to gain me much working room when I'm wedged in a coach airline seat behind someone whose seat is fully reclined. Or on my daily bus commute, when I'm sitting in a seat so small it makes coach look like business class. In these situations, reduced depth would be more likely to improve the angle of my screen and keep the front of my laptop from pressing against my chest. But in that dimension, the MacBook Air is no different from the MacBook.

I tend to agree.