I had the opportunity to work with one of the new MacBook airs and I have to say it’s amazingly fast. Very smooth, very clean, pretty much anything compiled for that new processor just happens, doesn’t really take a lot of time.

Even apps that are not compiled for it, that running emulation, a pretty darn fast to. Maybe even faster than on an Intel machine.

But it’s not without it’s problems at this point. A few developers, need to get their butts in gear, and make their applications work. Poorly written, or older programs have problems.  One I ran into was the Google back up and sync that copies your Google drive down to your computer.  It won’t run at all. Google has acknowledged the problem, but has yet to say when they’ll fix it.

I have Printer Driver issues with the Canon Pixma Pro series printers.  Canon has a Photoshop plugin that prints very well but is badly written and breaks with every update.  It is broken again.

Also from some research I did, screen flow doesn’t run at all either. Kind of surprised. I thought these guys were pretty much on top of things but in this case, they’re gonna need to modify. They’ve also acknowledged the problem and say they’ve got a fix in the works.

Overall, these are gonna be great machines. Possibly even revolutionary in the performance they give at a very low price point.

It’s become pretty obvious to me I need to get familiar with them to keep my skill level up. These are the future.

Give developers a couple of months, and I could probably give it a qualified buy rating.