Between the extra USB ports, removable battery, Ethernet port, and internal optical drive, how can anyone not choose the X300 over the MBA in terms of hardware? If you're dead set on OS X though, there's not much choice, however.
Just because you brought it up, I'll say this; Apple products are very nice visually, great design, sturdy construction, but the problem is that's their ONLY design. The smooth, rounded edge, bar-of-soap, minimalist design. If you want to stand out, getting a mac is a pretty sh*tty way to do it, because EVERYONE who has a mac has a computer that looks EXACTLY like yours.
When you're like me and you have a macbook on a college campus, you do much more blending in than standing out. I have a friend who has a sweet-looking sony vaio running dual-boot windows vista and OSX86 and I couldn't be more jealous.
My point is, I don't think I'm alone when I say, I love OSX, but there are OTHER laptops out there that I would like to use! Apple, if you're not going to make any variety in your hardware line, then for god-sake release and open-hardware version of OSX.
i'd just like to point out that the dell latitude (THE latitude) that has almost the same size specs as the MBA (smaller footprint, slightly taller), but has a removable hard drive (!), removable battery, expresscard slot, ethernet port, modem, the old printer port and a port i don't even recognize. still only one usb, and not built in wireless, but it's from early the 2000s. and it runs XP SP2 great. it's not the fastest, but for business it's pretty much prefect.
The Galaxy Tab 10.1, much like its Limited Edition sibling that we reviewed last month, is ever-so-slightly thinner than the iPad 2, a slate that most sane individuals (and competitors, for that matter) would confess is the market leader today.
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Between the extra USB ports, removable battery, Ethernet port, and internal optical drive, how can anyone not choose the X300 over the MBA in terms of hardware? If you're dead set on OS X though, there's not much choice, however.
Could it be... And this is just a guess here... That not everyone wants or needs what you want?
The MBA loses nothing that I need and comes in slimmer and cheaper. Perfect for my current laptop needs.
We nerds seem incapable of accepting that not everyone needs the extra stuff we claim is a must have.
OSX86 Project, nuff said.
@Paul: I'd sooner run XP than a choppy unsupported version of OSX. And hey, on a Mac, I can! On a machine that doesn't look like ass, to boot!
Just because you brought it up, I'll say this; Apple products are very nice visually, great design, sturdy construction, but the problem is that's their ONLY design. The smooth, rounded edge, bar-of-soap, minimalist design. If you want to stand out, getting a mac is a pretty sh*tty way to do it, because EVERYONE who has a mac has a computer that looks EXACTLY like yours.
When you're like me and you have a macbook on a college campus, you do much more blending in than standing out. I have a friend who has a sweet-looking sony vaio running dual-boot windows vista and OSX86 and I couldn't be more jealous.
My point is, I don't think I'm alone when I say, I love OSX, but there are OTHER laptops out there that I would like to use! Apple, if you're not going to make any variety in your hardware line, then for god-sake release and open-hardware version of OSX.
i'd just like to point out that the dell latitude (THE latitude) that has almost the same size specs as the MBA (smaller footprint, slightly taller), but has a removable hard drive (!), removable battery, expresscard slot, ethernet port, modem, the old printer port and a port i don't even recognize. still only one usb, and not built in wireless, but it's from early the 2000s.
and it runs XP SP2 great. it's not the fastest, but for business it's pretty much prefect.