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

People, this is NOT a normal laptop we are talking about here, it’s a whole new category of portable computing.

Just because you can buy a Palm Treo for half the price of the iPhone, can you really compare the two? I mean, technically the Treo does more the iPhone does (it can use 3g, gps, tons more apps), but one must admit their is just something special about the iPhone.

Or if this makes it easier… Compare moped to a full motorcycle. They are in completely different classes.

You can almost hear the crickets. You get what you pay for, or in Vista’s case, you overpay.

Not to geek out too much on this, but this thing is so small she just carries it around in her bag as if it’s a small textbook.

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

Apple is the epitome of “Style over Substance.”

However, this article is just culture-baiting. The Air of Japan is a smart phone, meaning the Japanese and American laptop markets are just different. The average Japanese will read a lot more into specs, whether they need the features or not.

Make no mistake, this machine is more LIGHT and THIN than anything in its class. It’s something you can only experience by holding one.

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.

“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.

Less talk, more work, please.

how about your marging?

and do you really think that Apple has its built-in factories knowing that ipods are built from Taiwan?

I say let sales show what the public wants/needs rather than this publicity driven ‘our machines are better, we would have less screws’ BS.

(i’m not a mac fan boy btw, use + like both OS’s)

Do a few extra screws really increase the cost that much? The MacBook Air is about the same price as competing (as in form factor) laptops anyways.