First a disclaimer: I am not in the need of a new laptop. (Sometimes when I talk about laptops I get family asking me if I somehow need a new one.) Having spent some time on the Apple website looking at the preview of Big Sur and its device compatibility list I fell into their MacBook pages and was frankly surprised that the current MacBook Air starts at just $999, which made me remark to myself that I’m honestly somewhat amazed that my early-2015 MacBook Air—which is compatible with Big Sur—still just merrily flies along at a pace mostly in sync with my thinking and doing. I’ll be interested to see how Big Sur performs on it once it’s an official release.