The Japanese trash-talk the MacBookAir

Originally Posted by Bigblah

Whatever, it's not like most Apple/Mac fans aren't just as obnoxiously cocky, snobbish and elitist as you'd have us believe these Japanese engineers are.

You just can't win, though. In the eyes of everyone on the net you're either a snobby, overpaid, collar-proppin' elitist for using a Mac, or a bandwagon-jumpin', know-nuthin', mainstream corporate sponsor for using a PC. You could just use Linux and plead the middle ground, but then people accuse you of trying too hard to be different. My advice: use Amiga - it's the only way.

Buuuuuut when it comes to the Air I have two big hang-ups: The price ($1,800 retail US, which in no way conforms to its performance), and that it has almost no user-replaceable parts. The entire thing from the hard drive to the sound card is integrated, which means the few pieces you can actually replace or upgrade would cost another arm and a leg. It looks awesome, and I can say that I've seriously considered other size gimmicky things like the Mac Mini in the past, but I just can't pull myself from these two drawbacks. Japan's got an image to maintain with their own companies, and a very competitive PC market that would be very difficult for something like Mac, let alone the Airbook, to enter.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Woah, woah, hold the phone Rama-lama! I'm not trying to trying to launch a Mac Attack, I 'm just telling you why I won't personally buy one. I know what Apple's all about when it comes to hardware integration, and I realize the market appeal for something like this, but I'm just saying why I won't buy one. It's a matter of preference - do I want easy of use and simplistic design (Mac) or do I want expandability (Somethin' else). Truth be known most laptops have simialar setups, but then again I'm not really a laptop kind of guy, so it kind of goes against my likes anyway.

There's nowhere I can't reach.