Oh man. Btw. Love the Air, but I've heard nightmare stories about the earlier editions and the ones with the mechanical drives; I'm very happy with the SSD, though. It does heat up fast. I don't use it for internet video playback (although Flash 10.1.x completely eliminates the issue). I pretty much use it for writing code, design, taking to meetings and traveling, and for those purposes it's the best laptop I've ever owned, not least because I can hold it in one hand and twirl it while I'm typing. I keep a macbook pro around, but it's mostly gathering dust these days except when I feel like watching a dvd in bed.
[EDIT: While I don't live in Vietnam anymore (my profile is outdated), my MBP's fan broke there, and for lack of replacement parts I got very used to living in a hot environment with an extremely hot laptop that needed to constantly be set up on a book or a portable fan base. And I mean scalding-hot, scared if this thing dies it will take weeks to get a replacement hot. So before I got the air, I was already very attuned to how to keep these things cool; relative to that, living in LA with one of these is no trouble at all.]
[Edit edit: My best practice for keeping a MBP cool when it's fan is broken and you have no A/C is to stick a stack of Wired magazines in the freezer, take one out every 15-20 minutes and put it between your lap and the laptop; when it thaws, stick it back in the freezer and get another one. But I'm drunk now and going to sleep so I'm going to stop editing this.]
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