As Steve Jobs demonstrated at Macworld Expo in January, the MacBook Air is so compact and thin it will fit in a standard brown manila envelope. However, if you're fortunate enough to own an Air, you’ll probably want to carry it in something with a bit more class and that offers better protection than a mailing envelope.

One very nice new case for packing a MacBook Air is Proporta's Classic Sleeve - MacBook Air. This custom designed sleeve fits the MacBook Air like a proverbial glove and keeps it protected from dust and minor thumps and bumps when not in use....

Among the MacBook Air's several functional and feature deficiencies is the provenance of just one, lonely USB port on a machine that depends extraordinarily heavily on its USB interface for I/O and peripherals support due to a complete absence of Ethernet and FireWire ports...

Especially with the MacBook Air and most likely with one of the larger 'Books as well, is that you're going to need a USB hub, and one that very nicely compliments the Air's compactness and portability is Proporta's 4 Port USB Compact Hub, whose trim dimensions and feather-light weight let it fit comfortably in a shirt pocket or purse, and it also has a USB male connector small enough to fit comfortably in the MacBook Air's recessed USB port.

The Proporta 4-Port USB Compact Hub is about the size and shape of a jumbo pack of chewing gum and with a smaller footprint than a PC Card (or an Earl Grey tea bag!...

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