MacBook Air

taling hallenthur

Having said that, I think there is no point in buying Macbook Air when we have Atom devices coming out in a couple of days. They have smaller screens but they get the job done.

tainted peak

Alot of people like to actually use a mouse and then where do you plug in stuff.... On another note does it have a wireless network card or is it just no internet at all cause for $1700 i don't care how thin it is its impossible these days to have a pc and not have atleast some access to internet.

You could spend 1700 on a overpriced dell desktop or laptop or just build your own really nice one for 1300 and have 400 left over for hookers......

I like the hooker idea

mbarry

The battery life sucks, no drive, non user replaceable anything etc.etc.etc. I would buy it if it was $500.

Traps

I just stumbled upon a couple of interesting articles that prove how the Air is not only NOT the thinnest laptop ever, but also how Apple were not the first going for thin laptops (so much for their "thinnovation", huh?):

1. The thinnest laptop ever comes from Sharp, with the Actius MM10/Muramasa notebook, which measured 0.54 inch thick and hit the shelves in 2003.

2. Before that, the thinnest laptop had been the 0.7244 inch thick Pedion, a joint project of Mitsubishi and HP, developed way back in 1997 and released by Mitsubishi in 1998. Unfortunately it made too many compromises for it's time (no optical drive in 1998 was crazy, lol), and died a quick, ugly death shortly after.

So, as you can see, the Air's "0.76 inch thick on the thickest end" does not make the thinnest laptop ever. Probably there were other laptops thinner than the Air in the past, but similarly to these 2, they might now be forgotten.
Anyway, has anyone seen the new 0.7 inch thick Voodoo Envy 133? That thing looks sexy! (and yes, it's thinner than the Air )

SteveMB93

I'm also pretty sure that there was a Sony laptop that was thinner than the Air.

Traps

I think you mean the Sony Vaio X505 released back in 2004. Regarding it's measurements, I've read inconsistent values in several sources: some say 0.3-0.75 inches thick, while others say 0.38-0.83 inches thick. So there's uncertainty as to whether if was thinner than the Air, or just "came close" to it. Nevertheless, it was quite impressive for it's time.

But you know what, after trying the "thin notebook thing", Sony understood that this was not what consumers wanted. And they reached an important conclusion: an ultraportable must be smaller in size, but not necessarily super-thin. So I guess either Sony is 4 years ahead of Apple regarding their understanding of customer needs, or the Jobsian distortion fields are strooong...