Originally Posted by
birdstrike
The gamble the early adopters are taking is that the machine will sell enough copies to make it worthwhile for Apple to offer a successor.
If not, they will be left to dry with the Lisa, the Newton, the Apple //gs, and the NeXT.
You pays your money and you takes your chances.
That doesn't even make sense. The MBA runs on standard OS X with an x86. It doesn't matter if a new upgraded model comes out. That wouldn't make the MBA obsolete. Apple isn't going to suddenly abandon the OS X platform when the new ultralight comes out.