BusinessWeek has published their review of the latest shiny from Apple, the MacBook Air. I have to agree with the reviewer on most points, though I’m probably not really the target market for this laptop. The price is right, but, for me, being restricted to a single battery really kills the deal. In order for an ultraportable to hold value for me, I need a full working day of freedom from AC. 5 hours just won’t cut it; I might as well carry a larger machine at that point. One of the reviewer’s comments simply misses the boat, though:

Meanwhile, it would be nice if Apple would end its pigheaded insistence on a single mouse button, as it has on desktop mice.

Just as quietly as with desktop mice, they have in fact ended this limitation for over a year now. To activate the “second button” simply enable two finger taps in the system preferences application. This lets you tap the pad’s surface with two fingers at any time to “right-click”. It’s a tremendous improvement over a second button, which is much easier to inadvertently activate. I constantly find myself wishing Apple’s competitors would ditch the second button and adopt that feature instead.