Pros:
- Extremely thin
- backlit keyboard
- multi-touch touchpad
- slightly above average battery life (for an ultraportable)
What else does it have going for it besides that? Everything else it has should be a given for something built for the ultraportable niche. At 3 pounds, it's actually on the heavy side for an ultraportable (which is traditionally classified by weight, not screen size).
Major Cons:
- 1 USB port (seriously?)
- battery not user replaceable
- no WWAN (not very portable)
Minor Cons:
- only 80GB hard drive, 64GB SSD at additional $999
- soldered-on, non-upgradeable RAM
- no Firewire
- no eSATA
- no microphone port
- Mono speaker (under keyboard)
Almost all of these cons could have been easily addressed and most ultraportable products have these features. The lack of an optical drive isn't a con for an ultraportable. How can you call it the Macbook Air and leave out WWAN?
This thing just seems like a huge toy/gimmick. Not to mention the $1,799 price tag, which is ridiculous for what little you get. Considering the hardware you're (not) getting, I'd say $1,000 would have been more reasonable.

That's waaay too big to be an ultra-portable. Forget about thickness, it's the same size as a regular macbook. I'm entirely unimpressed. Should be much smaller, even if that requires a 10 inch screen.

No surprises here. It's just Jobs soaking up all the fanboy money. I wonder how long Apple can keep that up before everyone notices how much they suck.

Steve Jobs is a Joke i was about to puke when i saw the video on cnn. My God, everything his company make has to be HUGE sounds like Donald Trump.
Either ways thinner i think the future owners of that laptop would demographicly speaking air head's

I'm no Bruce Lee, but I bet I could chop at least 2 of those in half at once!!!