Air of Vista?

Vista in an envelope?

The MacBook Air gets a review over at Ars Technica, and reviewer Jacqui Cheng has a horrible time of it.  Remember those problems with Vista where it's al but impossible to transfer files across the network?  Well, it looks like the McAir is suffering the same problems.

To quote Jacqui :

"Well, my patience lasted about five hours. Five hours later, the transfer still had not started, because the Air still had not calculated the amount of time it would take."

That pretty much sums up my own experiences with copying files in Vista, so I wonder is somehow Microsoft and Apple have started sharing code?  Or maybe just bugs....

Ms Cheng goes on to complain about performance, with a full set of benchmarks available. One of the main culprits here seems to be the 4200rpm drive.  As noted before, we're really waiting for those first SSD reviews.  She plans to write a follow up as soon as those SSD numbers become available.

She does have a number of very good things to say about build,d quality, how pleasant the form factor and weight is, etc.

Overall, I suspect it's going to be up to individual users.  Regardless of how hard you try, a reviewer cannot get or give a true picture of a machine unless you use it as your main machine for at least a month or so.  Some will like it, some will hate it.  But will it become a true icon like some Macs of the past?  We'll have to wait and see.