The MacBook Air: Wastefully Expensive

I hate to defend Apple, but the “wasteful” design may be that way for servicing convenience. A computer with less screws but cannot be taken apart for repairs/upgrading is poorly designed.

Why don’t they just come out and say it?

“We hate the more creative Americans.
Everything foreign is inferior, even if it isn’t.
If we can’t understand it, it must be bad.
Innovation is bad.”

But, yes, Apple is good at using image and advertising to sell things at a good markup over the technical costs. Sounds like jealousy in addition to the xenophobia.

I dislike Apple a whole lot, but I’d really like to see Japan make a better computer.

Then again, maybe these engineers could make a better computer, but the levels of ignorance they would have to pass through to get the project greenlighted would make a lot of screws, shall we say, loose.

R.O.F.L

too much bias and too much money spent on something that shouldn’t cost nearly as much.

The price i paid for my sony vaio was alomst half the cost of the macbook air. It does a hell of alot more and i even use widows vista which works quite well.

Having said all of that, myself and other members in my universities technology department were actually disappointed with this latest apple model because we thought their previous laptops were efficient and well made.

this just seemed like one of those paying for convience models, which in about a couple months time they recall becuase of some grave error somone made and then they have to extend everyones warranties etc etc

lesson here is don’t always pay for convience pay for substance.

Apple you’ve lost some support here in oxford

I’m a mac user, better Japanese language support = win, but… the MBA is way too expensive, pointless. It’s still too big.

I’m currently waiting for my backordered eeePC to come from Yodabashi. eeePC plus emobile = glory. Cheap glory.