Lenovo pretty much sums up my opinion of the MacBook air in this very clever, very cheeky parody of that Air commercial you’ve been seeing for the last two months. In it, an Air is taken out of an manila envelope, just as Steve the Great did at MacWorld in January.
Then, all the components it’s missing (optical drive, 3G wireless, etc.) are plugged into a hub, which is plugged into the single USB port. Then it all gets crammed back into the envelope.
It’s a clever way of advertising the X300 ultraportables, laptops we like anyway. They’re not as slick as the MacBook Air, but if it ran OSX, I’d pick one up in a heartbeat.
That is so stupid. It’s an ultra portable. You aren’t supposed to fill it with ports to attach crap to. It’s not meant to have everything. Seriously how many times have you stuck a dvd in you laptop recently.
Which is exactly what I thought when traveling with a NC4200 recently, until I tried to rip a recently purchased CD to my laptop…
Eventually I had to stick in a friend’s desktop and transfer the contents over wifi. Bloody frustrating!
As the friend in question had cautioned me about the purchase of the laptop in the first place due to it not having an optical drive and I had completely ignored him, I had to pretend it was all worth it for the smaller form factor. It wasn’t.
I think it is time for the manufacturers to start filling lawsuit against Apple for monopoly and demand the right to support OS/X.
“I think it is time for the manufacturers to start filling lawsuit against Apple for monopoly and demand the right to support OS/X.”
Why? OSX is a product of Apple. Why Apple should be forced to allow OSX to be installed in non-Apple hardware? because you like it soooo much but don’t want to pay for apple hardware (wich is, by the way, not that expensier than normal hardware, as many people like to say)?
Lets then suit M$ to force them to make SQL Server works in Linux or Mac!!