Comments on: A John Biggs rambling on Netbooks

By: Leo

Leo — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:25:46 +0000

I’m a PC and i read crunchgear too… i don’t know for how long tho I’m cool with apple but everyone here seems to be an apple tart.. soon they’ll change the name to applecrunch.

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:28:38 +0000

I’m a PC and I read crunchgear…

By: ben

ben — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:53:47 +0000

I like the style of this review/commentary. Perhaps CG schedule a regular chat session where readers can bait Mr Biggs and watch his replies?

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:09:52 +0000

A point for point rebuttal, mr JackAss:
1. Yes, I’m a rich fucker. I’m going to be doing research trips overseas and I got tired of lugging heavy notebooks around. In my examinations I’ve found a number of netbooks which are, as you say, great for browsing but i’m an OSX guy. So what should I do? I get an air, which is light and cute and fun. Quite underpowered, I agree, but it’s still very usable.

re: the statement that air isn’t a netbook at all – a netbook is a low powered laptop designed for browsing the web and using web services. all things being equal, this is a netbook. it’s not my fault it includes the ilife suite and a great UI

re: rimjobs – us bloggers are creative types. My consistent rimjobbing of Apple is because I use Apple computers. Why? Because I was tired of the “day of sorrow” I got every few months when I changed 1 thing in Windows and spent the entire day updating drivers, reinstalling the OS, and swapping out hardware just to troubleshoot the problem.

I don’t think apple is playing the “overpriced for the sake of overpricing” like you get in most audiophile gear. Apple has changed the paradigm for thinking about hardware. They’re making everyone step it up. Why are those $400 netbooks so seemingly popular? Simply because they are a new way for PC makers to sell their hardware. $699 full-bore laptop from Dell or HP is no good for anybody – no profit for Dell/HP, no profit for chipmakers, and you get reduced quality. In an era when PC margins are slim to none, netbooks are a way to milk the industry. I’d just rather let Apple do the milking.

As for PHa’s G1 review, wait until you try it yourself and I think you’ll agree. I’ve been excited about android for a few months now but this is a “meh” at worst and a “nice try, next” at best.

Love,
John

By: sabertoothJackAss

sabertoothJackAss — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:21:34 +0000

that’s stupid. biggs is a rich fucker who can afford joe the plumber’s services. the rest of us can’t drop $1700 on an underpowered POS like the Air. so instead we drop $400 on an underpowered POS like the Aspire, which lets us and our thyroid issues check gmail and watch revver while nursing free refills at the local coffee shop.

air isn’t a netbook at all. it’s a craptastic vanity project that hopefully will pave the way for newer, smaller apple products that lose the god awful “black keyboard on a silver machine” garishness that is the new “LOOK AT ME, I’M APPLE! YOU’RE POOR, HA HA!” Jony Ives design aesthetic.

why do all of the major tech blogs nuzzle Steve Rimjob to no end lately? jeez.

and Peter H, Biggs is rubbing off on you too much. your G1 “review” was a short-sighted, “I’m riled up and I can say DUCT TAPE over and over again” POS. Get Arrington to buy you some objectivity out of petty cash – or at least take away your precious Apple crap for a few weeks – before you post anything else to the site.

BTW. I love OS X. I just hate the new, smug, overpriced, post-iPhone Apple.

By: Wayne Schulz

Wayne Schulz — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:49:52 +0000

ITA

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:23:42 +0000

I cried.

By: hawk88

hawk88 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:19:12 +0000

I laughed.