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• let's combine our efforts :) http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16844669#itemanchor_16844669 : mafu5150
• glorious, I hate the original ad because it could have been my idea! : Mad Brahmin Disease
• It's not IBM anymore though. : nomaad
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  cute ad. right on the money, too. i dunno what apple was thinking when they put just the 1 USB port on ... : electroly
  • They were thinking that Apple users buy for appearances and not for functionality. : dirge23
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    I only ever use one of my USB ports on my Macbook, and only pop in the occasional CD to rip music to iTun... : sgtsanity
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      Hahaha. : tyrelhill
      • Laughing at someone's computing habits? : yellowtexan
    • I just don't understand why it had to be 1. Why not 2? Like the other Macbooks? Use a hub internally o... : electroly
• hahaha, funny because it's true : FushigiDenki
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  maybe they should also stuff the X300 with the extra $1000 you'll need to buy the thing versus the Air!'... : Postal
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    Good luck trying to stuff wired internet support into the Air. : Ride-My-Rocket
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      at least I can eat after buying the $29 Ethernet dongle : Postal
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        You could use the Macbook Air as a dinner plate after its battery runs out of juice. Because that's all ... : Ride-My-Rocket
        • The Air display is only 1280x800? : Fred Garvin
        • Oh damn that sucks. Batteries are the first thing to go. : lowayne
        • that was such a brilliant idea with the ipod im glad to see that they learn form their design flaws : ninjase
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    For that extra $1000 you're getting things normally found on a computer (ethernet port, dvd, etc). And t... : changejar419
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      I just pulled the prices up earlier, a 1.8/SSD/Superdrive Air is cheaper than an X300 ? : Toraz Chryx
      • Oh I have no idea honestly. I was speculating from this.. http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/lenovo-x... : changejar419
  • its about the same price as the Air with the SSD, which the x300 has standard. : re4ctor
  • Macbook Air with SSD: $3098 Lenovo X300: $3225 that's not $1000. : deject
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    You could get a MBA, PS3, Xbox 360, and an iPhone all for the price of that x300. BUT HAY IT HAS 3 UBS... : pgharavi
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      If you want to buy a high-end, full-featured laptop, you'll get an X300. If you want to buy a crippled... : Ride-My-Rocket
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        I'd never buy an ultraportable and I've criticized the Air, but at the same time I don't see what I'd get... : Serpico74
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          64-GB SSD, which (presumably) boosts performance at most day-to-day tasks. You need to pay extra to get ... : Ride-My-Rocket
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            The promised performance boosts of SSD, on any laptop, really haven't materialised. It's certainly not wo... : node
            • Ya, it's insane. You get very little for just under $1000. : pgharavi
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              I agree that the speed bump SSDs offer isn't worth the price... yet. However, give it a year or two and ... : Ride-My-Rocket
              • I agree w/ you 100% on that point and that is exactly why it baffles me when people compare the x300 to t... : pgharavi
          • Yes, and even with the SSD in the Air, plus external drive, plus wired adapters, it still comes out hundr... : Serpico74
      • lol, crippled by design. I have a Compaq n400, no DVD drive, hardly ever need it, and never use the USB o... : node
• lol... that's great. : Ride-My-Rocket
• Ouch, that should send some Macheads into a froth. Decent parody. : Fred Garvin
• Lenovo kthx : virus
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  Haha. I can already hear a million Apple users furiously typing out their indignant responses to this vi... : stump
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    actually mac keyboards are very quiet : boring gegtik
    • ^^^typing out indignant response : stump
• Hahahahaa....nice : avatar_58
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  Nobody in my family believed me over Easter when I told them that the Air doesn't have a dvd-rom, a port ... : Danny5225
  • Then you showed them the price for the good ol' one two punch. : Wombat Woo
• It's Lenovo, not IBM, but still, lol : Home Nugget
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  the macbook air will fail like the mac cube or whatever it was called. : tomatoactivator
  • I think it's selling well : ErneX
  • Apple's financial conference call says your wrong. The MacBook Air is a niche product. And it looks lik... : Hiro
  • possibly but the Cube was still an interesting machine. We never did purchase any at work but not for lac... : fatman
  • My boss gave me a G4 cube a few weeks back actually haha. : TwiLyght
  • The cube was awesome. Too bad it failed. : slax0r
  • My dual cpu Geforce 3 equipped Cube thumbs its nose at you! : Toraz Chryx
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    IMO I think in 4-5 years the macbook air will become the macbook pro. : ventro
    • its not really possible with that design. some things you cant shrink (ports, optical drives, etc) : eeeealmo
• lol apple douchebags all around the world feel a distortion of the force itself whenever someone watches ... : Hoax
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  Awesome. The air is stupid. : baronzemo78
  • its not a bad machine, IMHO. It is WAY overpriced though. it works great for people like my boss... we... : fatman
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  lol @ the comments: "Yea, but the only downside it is not a Mac and doesn't run OSX." : riptyde
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    It might run a hacked OS X kernel version, but I think it's a good argument, I don't see myself running a... : ErneX
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      I was referring more to the first part of the sentence... apparently the fact that it's not a Mac is some... : riptyde
      • It's more like "Hey, this Audi R10 is an amazing car... but we've only got gasoline pumps" : Toraz Chryx
  • I liked the one about the MBA having a better wow factor when you take it out in public. lololol : FormerHPB
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  Didn't dell make an ultra-portable laptop a while back called the X300? : royalally
  • Yeah. It was like a regular laptop except it separated into 2 pieces (the base having the optical drive ... : riptyde
  • The XPS M1330 is pretty sweet for the money actually. : cltcprd
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  Meh. I dont see a huge issue point here. I go to a lot of meetings here at work, and I carry my laptop ar... : two50six
  • I really want a UMPC like the OQO thingamabob. Then I could have my office setup which would have a full... : riptyde
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    Exactly, while I think it is a complete waste of money, I am sure for certain businesses and on the go pe... : hirosushima
    • You can get a Dell D430 for around $1200 that is just as portable, with a plethora of ports. : EvilDolemite
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  Aside from costing $1500 more, the x300 has a much slower CPU and half the RAM. Even if you added the SSD... : Serpico74
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    It's really no different from this Mac ad: http://images.apple.com/imac/design/images/gallery/imac_5_2007... : Gnowknayme
    • Since when was I talking about the ads? I was talking about the price and what you get for it. : Serpico74
  • Don't worry Serpico, it's tradition! It's like how people think it's 'un-classy' to go directly after com... : Fayk
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    ... and only runs Windows. oh shit son you went there!

    Apr 30, 2008 2:51pm PDT
    ... and only runs Windows. oh shit son you went there! : node
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  Hey they made a cute comparison commercial. Shackers love those. : vigilante
  • I think that rule only applies when MS is the butt of the joke. : capt tripps
• hahaha great! : razlebol
• That is INCREDIBLE!! : lookitzpancakes