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Ultra-thin laptops set to dazzle CES gadget fair

Technology Jan. 08, 2012 - 05:55AM JST ( 11 )

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JeffLeeJan. 08, 2012 - 09:53AM JST

"...to rival the MacBook air."

You mean: reduce the number of USB ports, and get rid of the LAN jack and removable battery" (features that are essential for me and my field work)? Then please DON'T try to "rival" the MacBook.
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XinefJan. 08, 2012 - 10:27AM JST

"thin-and-light, quick-boot designs"

Not only is this what is meant, it is what is said.

As far as I can remember, the X1 has 3 usb ports, a lan socket, and a removable battery.

Moreover, some people are very happy with the MBA design, I can hardly see how the needs of a specific person could impact a whole industry.
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oyamamanJan. 08, 2012 - 12:46PM JST

The OS is still Windows crap though
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アメリフセインJan. 08, 2012 - 05:15PM JST

$1000 is not affordable? The economy must be bad for some people!
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JeffLeeJan. 08, 2012 - 06:46PM JST

"$1000 is not affordable?"

PC users are accustomed to reasonable prices. My HP thin-and-light was $600, and I've been running a portion of my business (jobs in the field) on it with zero problems for nearly 2 years now. When it expires in several years' time, I'll upgrade to one of the models mentioned above.
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MaboDofuIsSpicyJan. 08, 2012 - 07:49PM JST

Apple all the way. The rest of the inferior products are for losers.
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ScorpiusJan. 08, 2012 - 07:58PM JST

@JeffLee... see this "Sonnet Presto Gigabit Ethernet Thunderbolt Adapter" for your MBA solution..
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MaboDofuIsSpicyJan. 08, 2012 - 09:33PM JST

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ScorpiusJan. 08, 2012 - 07:58PM JST

@JeffLee... see this "Sonnet Presto Gigabit Ethernet Thunderbolt Adapter" for your MBA solution..

What?
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アメリフセインJan. 09, 2012 - 12:11PM JST

@JeffLee

There is not much of a difference between $600 and $1000. I'd rather pay the extra $400 and get a better product, but that's just me.
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skipbeatJan. 09, 2012 - 12:59PM JST

The ultra-thin laptops are an upgrade from the netbooks with higher price points. The MacBook Air, the ultra-thin laptops, and the netbooks don't appeal to my needs or wants at this time. I prefer a laptop with higher memory/processor, 3 USBs, and a dvd/cd drive. For mobility, the majority of the people have a smartphone, an iPad, or a tablet to meet that need.
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lostrune2Jan. 09, 2012 - 02:29PM JST

The ultrabooks are the PC makers way of doing with the Macbook Air what Apple's iPod did to mp3 players, the iPhone to smartphones, and iPad to tablets. Apple's iPod didn't start the mp3 player revolution, but it popularized it. The iPhone didn't start the smartphones but, again, popularized. The iPad wasn't the first tablet but popularized it. So now, PC makers are trying to popularize the ultrabooks, where the Macbook Air didn't exactly light the world on fire.

Apple doesn't usually attend CES for 3 reasons:

1) Apple already has its own conference.

2) Apple doesn't usually work well with others, so what's the point of going where the rest of the industry playmakers are going.

3) Apple doesn't take criticism well, so in places that they can't control, they can face criticism from industry insiders and attendees alike.

Like the aforementioned Macbook Air, Apple makes a lot of excellent products, but not all of their products are the best. Like the Apple TV for instance. The reasons it also hasn't taken off are because there are already other wireless media players that do everything that Apple TV can but can do more.

Such as USB ports to connect storage devices, so you can play your files directly from your hard drives or flash drives without needing a computer. Or Apple TV can play only a handful of file formats (mainly .m4v, .mp4, and .mov) when all the other media players use the variety of media codecs the rest of the world use. (Seriously, Apple, you want us to go the extra step to convert our files when the internet world has been using the popular Matroska (.mk*) file formats for years?!)

So yes, in conclusion, there's always room for improvement, and that's what the PCs are trying to accomplish with ultrabooks. And Windows 7 isn't bad at all - heck, ya don't really hear that much complaints about it (though part of that is because anything is an improvement over Vista). But yeah, it's fine, like the last version of WinXP was. From what I've examined about Win8 though................ I'll withhold my judgement, hahaha. Let's just say hopefully this won't be like those Star Trek films, odd-even ones, haha.