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All sorts of people have declared the MacBook Air stillborn because it "lacks" ethernet, an integrated optical drive and user-swappable batteries—all reasonable objections to paying $1,800 or more for one.

Apparently, there are some people—maybe even quite a few—that haven't been swayed accordingly.

As of this writing, the MacBook Air is holding down the No 1 and No 3 spots on Amazon's Bestsellers in Electronics > Any Category > Electronics > Notebooks listing.

It's still early days, but this would appear to be a good sign that Apple's oft-criticized ultra-portable is charming enough after all.

But, there's a "but"

The MacBook Air isn't listed among Apple Store's own best-selling Mac products (only top seven displayed), which would seem to say that it's not selling so well after all.

Why the discrepancy?

This is a stretch but could it be that the MacBook Air is popular with the unwashed (selling well on platform agnostic Amazon) and flopping among the faithful?

Perhaps it's nothing at all, but my interest is piqued...

What's your take?

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