The arrival of my building’s handy man is always a bittersweet moment. On the one hand, I know my toilet will be fixed. On the other, I’ll have to listen to a diatribe about my iPhone, and why I’m a fool for not embracing Android. I like to avoid needless controversy, so the last time he stopped by, I steered the conversation elsewhere, noting that I had been playing around with Apple Inc.’s new MacBook Air. “Oh, that,” my handyman scoffed. “The Steve Jobs netbook.”
I had used enough netbooks to realize that this was an insult of the first order. Netbooks, after all, were clunky affairs with underpowered processors, cramped keyboards, and minute screens that had all the vividness of a $50 portable DVD player. My own netbook—a purchase that was half impulse buy, half wishful thinking—was fun for a while, a tiny laptop I could stick in my gym bag and forget about. The only problem was that I did, indeed, forget about it. The sluggishness, the lag while streaming video, the interminable wait while loading new applications were grievances too great to overcome.
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