Unfortunately, it doesn’t. Sony did it a few years ago with the Vaio - same thickness as the Mac, and lighter at eight hundred grams - not only could you fit it in one of those mailing envelopes, but it’s also light enough that you could mistake it for a regular letter too. :P

And it had an Ethernet port and DVD writer.

Apple’s offering is incredibly sexy though, and the hinge on the Vaio just shits me to tears. But if I were going to throw down two and a half *grand* on a subnotebook, I’d at least want to get something usable for my money. I’ve learnt by now that WiFi networks are (generally) about as reliable as Sydney’s train timetables, so I think Jobs’ beliefs about not needing an ethernet port are a little misplaced. And if I were to get something like this, part of the reason would be to watch DVDs on trips. But oh wait - you need the USB drive in that case. Which leaves you with zero free USB ports. So then you have to carry around a hub if you want to use a mouse as well. Which probably also means having to carry around a power brick for the hub, because of the power draw from the optical drive. Ad nauseam.

And by the time you’ve loaded up a carry bag with all that stuff, you’re probably carrying just as much weight, if not more, than the Macbook/Macbook Pro.

Despite all that, I was at a LAN on the weekend, and one of my mates had his new Macbook Pro there. I stirred some shit by calling it a Dell when I saw it running Windows (and reinstalling Windows about 2 hours later), but I’d still be tempted to get one myself. I don’t think it’s worth giving up all the practicality of the regular Macbooks just for the wank value of the Air.