Re: Once again, Intel builds a CPU just for Apple
troll Peter Köhlmann <peter.koehlm...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Mitch wrote:
> > sockpuppet Gene Jones <ja...@janus.com> wrote:
> >> "Synapse Syndrome" wrote:
>
> >> > > plus the macbook air is quite a bit more feature rich
> >> > > than the x-series.
>
> >> > Still waiting to hear what you mean by 'feature rich'.
>
> > Wow, you have no clue!
Pragmatically, it is beyond the ability of most of these trolls &
sockpuppets to actually conduct an objective, honest product
comparison.
> >> fastest, thinnest, least weight slip laptop
> > what is weight slip?
> > This isn't fastest, isn't lowest in weight.
>
> Only "thinnest" has some resemblance of the truth
> It isn't the fastest one, and it isn't the one with the least weight
And is the one with the least weight also the fastest?
> >> longest battery life
> > In this kind of category, maybe -- but it isn't yet tested, fool!
>
> OxRetard will claim that apple ads are the sacred truth
>
> >> each individual key lights up upon ambient light / no pc has this
> > Now you include the ambient controller, at least.
>
> It is not the only one with lighted keyboards. And that "feature"
> is easily the most retarded one.
The design intent is obvious: the product is aimed at the 'Road
Warrior' who's giving a presentation in a dark conference room.
A presenter stumbling around in the dark is embarassing and a waste of
money: its not uncommon for the aggregate of the "waiting" audience's
time to be worth $25/minute and up.
> >> full keyboard / no slim pc laptop has this
> > Sure they have.
>
> A lot do. OxRetard as clueless as usual. A true Mac user
Again, it depends on the total feature set. For example, of those
laptops that meet a 3lb weight constraint, how many still have full
size keyboards?
Ditto for screen sizes that are comparable...call that here to be 12"
or larger.
The overall debate isn't the cherrypicking of one attribute while
ignoring all others, but instead, is the contextual feature set of the
design trade-offs made.
This is all quite reminiscient of a car test I recall from roughly 20
years ago: the Audi Coupe GT did not place first in any test
category, but by placing 2nd Place in all of the tests, the reviewer's
conclusion was that it came in first place overall.
> >> full integration with Time Capsule / no pc has this
> > There are solutions to do all those functions, sure. Differently, and
> > with a different hardware component.
>
> As if having that is a must. There are better backup
> solutions, and they are all not from apple
The fallacy here in how one chooses to define "better". From what I
understand of Time Machine, etc, isn't that it is the 'best' performer
of the utilty of backing up one's machine, but rather that it
reportedly does a reasonably good job of making sure that backups *do*
occur and does so relatively transparently without much need for
intervention from the User.
I'm sure that one could take some other backup solution and configure
it so that it checks everything every ~6 hours, but the odds are that
it would be a nusiance that each time that the Road Warrior comes back
home and plugs in, the backup utiltiy "gets in the way" by forcing
itself to the foreground, and prevents him from getting his other work
done. YMMV, but I don't consider that to be a "better" approach to
assuring that backups occur.
> Only Mac users would be dumb enough to buy such a
> crippled machine
What comparable hardware would you recommend for XP users? Key
attributes being a screen 12" or larger, under 3.01lbs, ~5 hours
battery life, real keyboard and a reasonably healthy CPU, RAM, HD,
etc.
Within the Lenovo X series, the X61's minimum weight is 3.77lbs, so it
doesn't meet the weight bogey, so its out of the running.
Within the Sony VAIO TZ series, screen size is below 12", so its out
of the running. The SZ series passes on screen, but at 4lbs fails on
weight.
Maybe the Toshiba Portege R500-S5002? Weight and Screen are okay, but
at 1.2GHz, the CPU's getting weak; keyboard's a squeeze and battery
life is <4 hours.
Averatec 1579...fails too. Ditto the Lenovo 3000.
FWIW, I'm not defending or condeming the design attributes of the MBA
- - all I'm saying is that for whatever reason, it doesn't seem that
any Windows laptop manufacturer has hit on the same combination. As
such, this appears to be the "longest lasting" (battery), "largest
screen", "high power" (CPU), "full keyboard" and <3.01 lb notebook
sold by anyone at any price, and regardless of what OS you then choose
to run on it.
Of course, this doesn't yet mean that it will be mechanically
reliable, or that it will be a marketplace success. It is, afterall,
still a new & unproven product that these attributes can only be
guessed at, based in part on the manufacturer's overall reputation.
-hh
