Ars Technica:

Hardware improvements and the passage of time have made me more enthusiastic about the MacBook’s virtues and less bothered by its trade-offs. I still wish Apple would drop the price a couple hundred dollars and put the MacBook Air out of its misery, but even at $1,299 the MacBook has become a respectable mainstream laptop.

Obviously, “everyday laptop” depends on what you do every day but it sounds like this latest MacBook is a real little workhorse.