# Happy Anniversary to My Favorite Apple Ad—and the MacBook Air <div class=iframe-container> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3Ywa_EynjC8?si=b14LRULGOkZSbdMZ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> Not so much a new soul any more, but still as powerful an [[Apple’s Ad-entity|ad]] as ever. I loved my MacBook Air that I bought after high school in 2013. I pushed that 11'' harder than it ever ought to have been. It was at a time where I believed if it was a Mac, it could do anything. In a way, that was true despite the hardware limitations. The [product page back in January of 2008](https://web.archive.org/web/20080118130408/http://www.apple.com/macbookair/) had this to say. > "MacBook Air is ultrathin, ultraportable, and ultra unlike anything else. But you don’t lose inches and pounds overnight. It’s the result of rethinking conventions. Of multiple wireless innovations. And of breakthrough design. With MacBook Air, mobile computing suddenly has a new standard." Considering every laptop took after the Air and MacBook Pro, I'd say that mobile computing did have a new standard.