Bought this about a month ago after doing a lot of research. The 11.6" is a little unconventional but the form factor makes it a perfect companion on the go. Weighing in at just 1.08kgs, the ultra slim uni-body Macbook air sports a 4th gen 1.3ghz Intel i5 Haswell processor along with 4gb of high speed RAM+ 128GB SSD. Might seem less but trust me, its good enough. In an era where we have our data hosted on the cloud & on portable HDD / pen drives, the machine has sufficient space.
Boots up in less than 12 seconds & shuts down in 2-3 secs flat - ain’t that impressive! The back lit keyboard is a blessing along with Apple’s touch-pad. I just upgraded to ios 10.9 mavericks which made my system even faster. I consistently get close to 9 hrs of battery life and with software’s like keynote, pages & numbers (which come free)+ iLife, I still have close to 98GB free.
That’s after I have 2 movies & 200 songs loaded.
I would totally recommend this machine.