Review - iPad Air 5th Generation - The Perfect Size?
The year was 2013. I’d just completed my first year at Apple, the company that had hired me out of my old job and paid for my relocation from Germany to Ireland. Still flush with the feeling of having “moved to the Champions League” of customer support, I decided to treat myself to my very first Mac, an 11” MacBook Air. The original wafer-thin justification was that I’d soon start on the Mac support lines, having started my Apple career on iOS support, and having a personal Mac would make it easier to do my job, although this ploy was so transparent that even Stevie Wonder could see through it. I just wanted a Mac, and a certain constellation of employee discounts had just become available that made said MacBook dirt cheap. However, whilst I absolutely loved MacOS, or OS X as it was still known back then, I really fell in love with the MacBook Air’s form factor. It was compact, light, easy to handle, and I could take it anywhere without it taking up too much space in a bag. I ended up ...