Test driving MacBook Air right now in Apple store

I rarely do hardware testing in computer store, but everything has it's first time, right :-> 

So I am in Apple store right now (at Gallerias, Houston), typing this blog in an Apple store.  I am my hands on a MacBook Air now, and here's my experience.

The first thing I tried was multi-touch touchpad.  It works OK, but not seems to be as intuitive as I expected.  The experience of multi-touch on a iPod Touch is definitely much better than on MacBook Air.  

Then I tried out the keyboard.  The keyboard itself seems pretty fine, but I miss all the function keys that I found on my Lenovo Tablet PC.  I also miss the right click mouse.  Since I use the mouse and keyboard like every single day, this may affect my decision on switching.

And then I have some strange problem cut and pasting text from Microsoft Word to my blog here.  Probably has nothing to do with Macbook Air, but still ....

And then the weight: I can typing on one hand while holding the MacBook Air by the other hand.  Pretty cool.

However, there's one thing I really do not like: the fact then the hinge between the screen and the keyboard prevented me from opening the screen all the way to 180 degree.  Somehow I was so used to do that to read e-comics book.  In fact I have to say that this could be one big reason to keep me from buying this baby.

And then the lack of ports problem.  Yeah everyone complains about it.  Enough said.

The screen is pretty OK, but the vertical viewable angle is not large enough.  When I look from the top edge, it wasn't looking well. 

All in all, this is a niche device.  definitely not for me, but if I have tons of bling bling, then I probably don't mind having another gear leaving in my car in case I need another device to use.

That's all.  Deecay signing off.