There are published reports that Apple’s once moribund MacBook Air lineup has begun to sweep the sales charts after the recent upgrade. Apple’s store isn’t showing sales rankings these days, but Amazon was listing the $999 entry-level model as bubbling under the Top 10 when I wrote this article. Of course such figures change from […]

I read an article the other day quoting an executive from Lenovo claiming that far fewer and fewer customers were buying note-books with optical drives. The number continues to decrease year after year. But Apple already figured that out when the MacBook Air was originally introduced. At the time, the Air was roundly criticized because […]