Don't compare Apples to Oranges. The Eee is cheap, small, and light - but very small in some respects. It does the basics and does them very well. The MacBook air is astronomically expensive (for the performance it gets) but it's meant to be full-sized and capable of most people's daily computing tasks. They're not at all in the same market. You might as well have just said "I'm building a gaming desktop for $1000 that beats the pants off this MBA". Well, yeah...but it's not at all the same.
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Don't compare Apples to Oranges. The Eee is cheap, small, and light - but very small in some respects. It does the basics and does them very well. The MacBook air is astronomically expensive (for the performance it gets) but it's meant to be full-sized and capable of most people's daily computing tasks. They're not at all in the same market. You might as well have just said "I'm building a gaming desktop for $1000 that beats the pants off this MBA". Well, yeah...but it's not at all the same.