Harrison20

LOL, and Mac users are called elitist. Anyway, the ad is funny (and the fake Dell ad is even funnier) and clever. Except for the upside down SuperDrive, which makes them look like they couldn't tell their ass from a walrus. Even though the ad's exaggerated, it's also very fitting. From the minute I knew that there's no Gigabit Ethernet and no FireWire on the Air, I knew I wasn't going to buy one. That said there does seem to be a market for it as it sells quite well. Managers, sales persons or casual home users may not have a need for a lot of hardware interfaces. Hmmm, bloggers might also be potential buyers, as has been mentioned. Probably journalists in general and book authors could use one for the same reasons.

The one point where I disagree with Lenovo though is the "we built things in" in a larger context. Even on a T61(p), there is no decent FireWire support (the MacBook Pro has 1x FireWire 400 and 1x FireWire 800, with up to 8W total power, the T61 has 1x FireWire 400 with no power), no digital video out (MacBook Pro: dual-link DVI), no digital audio in/out. You can of course get some of this with the Advanced Minidock, which is $200+. Since you don't want to carry it around, get one for every workplace (currently 3 frequently visited in my case), so that'll be $600 or more. We don't add stuff on, we add it under.

"then you can get a mac book pro which is smaller than that lenovo"

Well, THAT, of course, is not true.

Jackal-Head

chonnes

It's true that Mac Airbook is good for a small group of people. But for most it's shy on some critical basics.

I had an IBM TP240 (first ultra portable that was a full functioning system). I LOVED IT! Now I want the X300!!! (But more likely can only afford the Compaq 2133 mini-notes).

GarnetNR

Look at all the Macfanboy comments!

"Oh, but it's ugly!"

LAMO!!!!!

I'll take functionality over form any day. I'm really begining to think that Steve Jobs could take a turd, wrap it up in a pretty box and it would still sell, because the Apple fans would say, "Damn.. I know it's a turd, but isn't it pretty!"

KLanD

if you own an MBA you are not a salesdude swinging around the country with your powerpoint Presentations.

you are a blogger appearing in a cafe talking to other bloggers in a cafe about how cool you are with an MBA.

now don;t get me wrong the MBA is a beautiful piece of work but it is just a device to connect to to the internet and to the apple mothership.

it serves no other purpose "Business-wise" maybe in hollywood they will play it in a couple of movie and lead us to believe that it can be used to deliver a virus to the alien mothership and whatnot.

who hear owns one and uses it for anything else but connecting to the for gratuitous internet use

Jraktal

Annnnnyway, that commercial is a riot. It doesn't matter if your computer can fit inside an envelope... it matters a lot more what the manufacturers managed to fit inside the COMPUTER.

ManekiNeko

Also, I hate the song that runs on the AirBook ads. And pretty much any song ever featured on an iPod ad. And after my experience with Leopard, I want to string up Mac Guy with the entrails of that insipid referee.

So, good on Lenovo for the parody. From a Mac fanboy.

Owen Good

THE Business Laptop

rodsky

I am glad that thinkpad didn't change the looks of the x300 because its the tradition of the thinkpad. And besides, if it isn't too advanced for you apple (or windows users for that matter), you could install linux.

xFr3nLixPhYr3x

You know, maybe you should look into Scientology while you're at it. Tom Cruise loves it, and we all can see how great of a figure he is! :)

SomeoneUKno

bunch.of.wackos

bunch.of.wackos

bunch.of.wackos

macdabby

I'm just going to save evryone the trouble of continuong the flame war and re-port a comment from here:

[www.reghardware.co.uk]

"I thought I'd try to save everyone from typing"

Macs are overpriced underspec'd poncey toys for people with too much money. Macs are great value for money - you couldn't get the same spec for the same money elsewhere. OSX is great Windows is shit. Windows is great OSX is shit. 2GB is nowhere near enough memory these days. 2GB might not be enough for Vista but Macs run fine with it. OSX copied Vista. Vista copied OSX. Some boring shit about the finer points of Intel processor technology that's the equivalent of showing everyone how big your willy is except nobody is interested whatever. OSX is shit and Windows is shit; I run Ubuntu blah blah blah. I hate Steve Jobs he eats babies. Bill Gates eats the babies and their mothers. I run Cock-Rot Linux and it's the best in the world and I don't know why everyone uses Ubuntu when you can do everything using Vi and the terminal feature of my obscure mobile phone (which nobody ever rings 'cause I've got no friends). Some other boring comment about processors from someone who wants to show the world that his willy is bigger than the other processor posters (okay, one person read the whole post). Apple hardware is overpriced I hate anyone with an iPhone. Actually BSD is much better than Linux or Windows or OSX, that's why such a large percentage of people have it installed on their home machines. Doh, didn't you know that OSX is Unix and runs BSD. Actually it's not Unix 'cause Apple won't pay for the certification. Yes it is. No it's not. Fanboi something. Don't you know the whole fan-boy thing is old and so juvenille, just like your spelling. I still use a Lisa and it does everything I need it to. I use a Commodore 64 with a hard-drive and it's better than the Lisa. I don't know what I'm talking about and haven't read the article but I'm going to chip in with something irrelevant and wrong anyway. OSX sucks. OSX rocks. Bootcamp. DRM. iTunes. Steve Jobs is on first name terms with Satan. Bill Gates is Satan. I've got an iPhone and I love it. It really pisses me off that Apple has to put i in front of everything. Something about PPC versus Intel. Something completely without evidence comparing Apples and Oranges (pun intentional) proving PPC is and always will be better than x86. Something completely without evidence comparing Apples and Oranges proving x86 is and always will be better than PPC. GPL. Google. Linux. QNX. My Dad's harder than your Dad. My Nan's harder than your nan. Something anti-American. Angry riposte proving anti-American point. Thoughtful welll thought out riposte clearly disproving anti-American point that nobody will ever read because there's so much uninformed chaff above it.

marm0lade

solOptimus

solOptimus

It's for taking to your women's studies classes.

- bird

hilobird

chonnes

I guess I'd consider myself a Lenovo-head. I love the design, keyboard, color (all black like electronics should be), etc...

Skorpius

ironslave

ohio

Airport_Whiskey

@brtbs:
Yes I was about to bring that up, how Apple does the same thing too. It's marketing/humor, it's supposed to be exaggerated. People somehow view Apple as if they are somehow fundamentally good, when in reality they are just out to make money like the rest.

stopcrazypp

.tox

Each feature you leave out reduces the potential market of the device. Aesthetics aside, this makes the MBA market is a subset of the X300 market. If you want a lightweight travel notebook without lots of ports, either will work just fine. If you want a lightweight travel notebook with those additional features, the MBA isn't a viable option.

Solandri

I was really, really looking forward to the MBA. I thought it would be the second coming of the 12" PB. Instead, they gave us a crap lo-res notebook that's too large to be an ultraportable but too underpowered to be a proper workhorse.

An extra inch (or even two!) wouldn't have killed ya, Apple. Seriously.

JustThisGuy

The only people i acknowledge using laptops on the go are people with thinkpads, because to me, it says they know what they are doing and take their business seriously.

Incidently I own a thinkpad x60s, never crashed, never needed reformatting, fast, light and 7hr battery life AND it's actually compatible with presentation equipment and other computers wherever you take it....

liverpool-dr

Apple fanboys need to chill, it's a funny idea for a parody, that's all. Don't take it too seriously. And it's not like Apple isn't guilty of the same crap. Except this is an official ad on their site.

[images.apple.com]

brtbs

Harlan

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Yeebles

club662

DelSource

Its funny cause its true.

Evangelion

x300 tape onto a snail crowling into an envelope while a MacBook air on a porsche with $800 in the car.

how can they compete x300 with air? it's slower processor and $800 more and ugly plastic case.

Lenovo is from IBM which turns into no taste.

chunkysalsa

I've told many people that ask me about the Air - either you better have really good wireless connection or another computer if you really want this one.

NightElfMohawk

Hahahaha

bpapa9013

kahri

Gary_7vn

Gary_7vn

lianna_g

indy360

qbrad

xxenclavexx

xxenclavexx

A portable doesn't need a optical drive and all those ports. It's self-contained. If you need all that shit, don't buy an ultra-portable. Mac was the first to get rid of the floppy- and look where we are now. If you buy a computer with a floppy, you have issues with your parents you should probably have worked out.

Optical is the new floppy.

mconheady

kuba.la

frigg

bobdobbs

xxdesmus

Reilaos~

Vindicoth

HAGE

Well, not really. I have a life. But I did test it once and it fit just fine.

archercc

TamaraMalingsia

Joseph

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

cayton

On the Thinkpad design, I actually like the fact that the Thinkpad hasn't changed its more rugged look for many years now. That's part of its style and what makes it so readily identifiable (just like the big Apple logo on Macs.) If it were constantly changing styles it would have cachet no better than the average Dell or HP notebook. It's hard to go wrong with basic black (still my favorite color on Macbooks as well) and their keyboard/trackpoint style will never die for a reason - it's the best.

Ron-Mexico

The new HP ultraportable FTW.

bandit

kickace

James

...Air is a joke though.

newgalactic

Still hilarious commercial. I LOLed.

se7a7n7

One thing people always fail to mention, though, is that the X300 has a higher res 13" screen. I think it's the only WXGA+ 13" laptop out there. Hopefully more machines will be following suit (m1330, for example). The MBA probably won't, since Apple is notorious for being conservative with their screen resolutions.

fuzzycuffs

med

Jakus

eFrisk

Jakus

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

newgalactic

newgalactic

And don't forget that x300 is 1.2GHz C2D versus 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz C2D for the Air.

poisonfist

Benzido

jibbly

snitch29

SERIOUS QUESTION: How long will it be before we are no longer using cords, CD's, etc...?

Bluetooth and wireless USB make cords obsolete, and a solid state card or USB drive can hold more than a CD, DVD, or even Blu-Ray disk (yes, I know a 50 GB thumb drive is REALLY expensive compared to a Blu-Ray disk, but it won't always be).

JoeKing

jrizzah

The optical drive in the x300 is an impressive technical feat, but as that video demonstrates, that laptop is still a lot larger than the Air.

The rest of those USB cables were just kind of dumb. If you need all that stuff, you're not on the go anyways, or you have the wrong laptop.

ludwigk

IVPPITER

j4sk868

As to Dearhaw and his/her point as to how well the MBA is selling in the Apple Store as compared to the X300. Gee...you're right. I'll bet not many X300s get sold at the Apple Store at all! But then I ask you this...how many MBAs are selling on Lenovo's site? Let's all go take a look, shall we?

Thoth74

newgalactic

MadCrazy

DeCerbo

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Pluton

ecobore

This parody, however, is proof positive that Apple's marketing is extremely successful, since it's not even the gaudiest, nor the most pretentious, yet still manages to get people to both love them dearly and hate them and make endless parodies of them.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

@Dearhaw: *If* sales numbers were an indication of quality......well, Apple computers would be far down the quality table you absolute muppet. And Dame Barbara Cartland would be the greatest writer in history, after that fictional character god, of course. But I digress......

@bobdobbs: Of course the x300 is "thick" (a term now used to mean "anything not as thin as the Air"). It actually contains things, that's why.

DelSource

rfaulder

newgalactic

Opera Mini - iPhone

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Einar

mrtedweb

workingonyourinvoice

Unseelie23

i64X

i64X

BTW, I'd really like to see them plug in 5 USB peripherals into the X300 -- which only has 3 USB ports -- without using a USB hub ;-)

Oh, and I wonder how well the X300 is selling? The MBA has been in the No. 1 slot of the Apple Store's Top Sellers list pretty much ever since it was released 3 months ago.

Dearhaw

Brookespeed

not the status, but being able to use a laptop that is thin, light, and easy to carry around (around the house one handed, out and about with you), so so pleasing that it is worth it to some.

It is like taking a bath in champagne.

MrBlahBlah

xirian

kahri

workingonyourinvoice

Radicalevan

itchytooth

There's three compromises on your "No compromise" ultra-portable laptop, Lenovo.

bobdobbs

It looked like a DVD-ROM, an SD reader and an IR interface? and something else... any guesses?

Cisco-Kid

Ah. That's probably the best Mac parody I've seen in a while.

legacye

Lilin

chonnes

chonnes

takashimiike 3G edition

mrxcel

Rain-man

MrHaroHaro

Air = best design I've ever seen for a laptop

ferrdidly

takashimiike 3G edition

I like some apple hardware such as the ipod - which I think is GREAT but this airbook is an air ball.

If the air had VGA or DVI out, an Ethernet jack and a build in DVD player it would be a sweet laptop - until then the x300 and the Sony alternative are pretty nice

boe

Superevil

pferde_schwanz

Tayng

daftrok

Vindicoth

Kudos to whoever made that video (I would say its not actually official Lenovo no, otherwise they'd be up for some serious lawsuit-age)

6d617474

strider_mt2k