Well, I guess Guy Kawasaki’s found the ticket.

Into Thin Air: How I spent $5,000 on Air and Made 50-year Old Women Swoon.

Good to know.

Interesting, that through all the computer replacing and swapping, an Apple guy like Kawasaki ended up with a consumer iMac “base computer” and a light-on-the-features MBA as his traveling machine. The pro machines (Mac Pro desktop and MacBook Pro laptop) now gone from his arsenal.

Interesting. Completely understandable, but interesting.

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Love this…

WordPress Dash.

Handy.

First of all, I must say after a full day with my MacBook Air, which arrived on Monday morning, a full day before it was expected (I ordered the day after the Keynote), I love it. Worries I had:

• The 13″ screen that I was worried would be too small after my years with 14″ and then 15″ iBooks and Powerbooks. Non issue. It’s so incredibly bright and sharp, I prefer it now. My aluminum 15″ Powerbook now looks big, dim and clunky.
• The sluggish iPod-hard drive performance. Non-issue. After reading the reports that the performance of the Air is pokey, I realize that must be in relation to state of the art MacBook Pros, because it screams next to my last generation Powerbook G4.

Okay, those were the only two, and as you can see, they’re both non-issues. I agree with Steve - The keyboard on the MBA is the finest they’ve ever produced. Wonderful keyboard. Heat buildup is minimal, performance is great and my Sprint EVDO USB modem installed flawlessly in seconds.

But I have discovered a possibly serious design flaw. I’ve noticed it twice. Because the corners of the MacBook Air don’t sit flush with the table underneath, a “shelf” is created between the front corners and whatever the MBA is sitting on. When you’re working while wearing long sleeves that aren’t tight enough to be flush against your skin, that excess sleeve can catch on the raised corner and when you lift your hand you can flip the MBA backwards.

So, I’m faced with a decision. My response? All my long-sleeve shirts are going to Goodwill today. Who needs long sleeves? Obviously not a popular choice in the testing labs of Cupertino!

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Let’s face it, he’s a very, very, smart guy. But more than that, he knows how to live right, and how to follow what’s important to him. We should all be so wise. A couple years ago, Jobs got a death sentence. A pancreatic cancer diagnosis, which is almost always quickly fatal. Except when they did a biopsy, the dx changed to that of a rare curable form of the disease.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

I’m always quite comfortable in Jobs’ “Reality Distortion Field” and an unabashedly proud fanboy. I didn’t order a MacBook Air the day of the most recent Keynote at MacWorld, but instead a day later. Among fanboys, that almost makes me a Doubting Thomas.

Now, reading Jobs’ entire Stanford University Commencement address from 2005, you may think his philosophy runs completely counter to the Apple fan culture. But it’s not. The great thing about Apple products is, they inspire and help you create great things, they don’t demand that you spend huge amounts of time learning to use their products. That’s the difference. To really get Windows or Linux PCs to do what you need to do, you have to learn a lot about how they work, what drivers you need, how to install and uninstall, etc…

Apple stuff just works. And when your computers just work, you can do whatever you need to do with them. Simple, right?

Here’s the video of the address.