Rumor has it that Apple is working on bringing new Mac systems to the table, and that these Macs would be radically new designs and vastly different approaches than what we see in the current Mac Pro, Mac Mini, iMac, and MacBook models.

Each design in Apple's current Mac lineup has its pros and cons. The Mac Pro is highly configurable and the most capable and expandable of all Macs; however, it also is a large and heavy machine that takes a lot of power to run. The iMac is affordable and the easiest to set up of all desktop Macs, but, beyond RAM and CTO options, it is not very configurable. The Mac Mini is great as the cheapest desktop Mac and is small and convenient; however, it lacks power and capacity and is not easily configurable.

Technologizer”s Harry McCracken says he likes “ridiculously ashamed notebooks, has a still site for netbooks, is agreeable to arrive at compromises to cast preponderance such as dealing with incommodious keyboards, squinting at small-scale screens, and erudition to use deviating pointing devices.

However, Harry is find Apple’s new 11.6″ MacBook Air a gutsy-changer – Apple s smallest Mac carry-on ever even more so than his belatedly, lamented 12″ PowerBook, and has been been living with one (loaned to him by Apple) since the push episode last month.

Harry affirms that the new newborn Air is no netbook, but rather a ridiculously slight notebook, with its surprisingly important-single-mindedness 1366 by 768 widescreen air, 1.4-GHz Gist 2 Duo, and full-sized wonderful-comfy keyboard and trackpad as opposed to shrunken netbook ones, two USB ports – one on each side, and mannerly stereo speakers. Still no Ethernet and no backlit keyboards, no FireWire, and no SD comedian schedule in the 11.6″ variation (the 13-incher has one), no optical drove, which Harry says is not an big climax 95% of the notwithstanding, unless you like to mind DVD movies on your computer, introduce endless amounts of disc-based software, or are a big believer in DVD as a backup standard. He says he wavers back and forth on whether he wants an optical force built into my laptops, which is why he find Toshiba’s Portege R700, a thin 3-pounder twith a DVD burner, intriguing. But he says giving it up in a vehicle as thin, cheerful, and low-priced as the 11.6″ Air is an untroubled tradeoff.

Harry thinks the Airs’ unbroken-express shimmer thought is a varied bounty in terms of having far less qualification at any value period than a flatland ol’ badly drives, but other than the insufficiency of elbow dwell, thinks the move to rush storage is all sound tidings. As for the Air’s 4 GB RAM ceiling and slowish clock hustle, Harry ssays the Air feels at least as natty as a MacBook Pro with beefier specs, and he’s been getting comely much Apple’s claimed five hour battery runtime, but is attracted to the seven-hour estimated life-force of the 13.3″ Air, and that the new Air’s starting pricetag of $999 the same as the low-end persuasible MacBook is cipher, suggesting that while it s not for everyone, he suspects the folks who like it who haven’t had a Mac aimed at them until now will honestly like it.