We won’t have to wait much longer to see the effect of the Mac App Store on the Mac marketplace. The , in 90 countries.

The MacBook Air had become the forgotten machine in Apple’s Mac lineup. Then in October 2010, Apple the , and it immediately became Apple’s newest darling. The smallest Mac portable Apple has ever created features a full-size keyboard, an impressive 1366-by-768-pixel display, and flash storage to help provide a dramatic performance boost over the previous 13-inch MacBook Air.

Most importantly, the MacBook Air gave many longtime customers what they’ve been waiting for: a true heir to the legendary . Now, road warriors don’t need to compromise with an , or lug around excess weight and size with a or a . The 11-inch MacBook Air is the ultraportable that’s long been missing from Apple’s lineup.

Apple also updated the with a new graphics processor and flash memory. The flash memory helped the 13-inch MacBook Air outperform the current in .