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| Re: Re: The final nail in the coffin 4:39 AM EDT Tue Apr 17, 2001 | |
| Doug Petrosky >>Ok, so I'll bite... Compare this to say, a Sony Vaio 505, which is roughly 3" narrower, and costs $800 less<< Ok, but first your $ are wrong, I looked on their website. Entry level 505 is $2600. It is 1.5 lbs lighter 2.5 in narrower but the same height and depth! Add the "dock" and then it is just as heavy and it costs an extra $400-$600. It gives up 3.1 inches of display, even though it has the same vertical footprint! It has no IR and would have to use it's only PCMCIA slot for wireless. It uses shared memory Video Ram and only mirrored external monitor support. It has no Svideo connector and a max RAM of only 1/3 of the Ti. Both laptops compromise! But I'll take the extra width any day (and did). (by the way, it doesn't cost more to use a smaller display, remove ports or remove the optical drive. If Apple did only thoes things the Ti would be just as small and just as light, they would just sell it for less! who is charging a premium here!) >>> IBM noteobok in that pricerange has a media bay, and a docking capability.<<< Ok so the entry level ThinkPad is a better match for the Ti, at $100 less expensive, it is the same weight, 1.4 in narrower .3 in deeper (oh and 30% thicker). It has a drive bay but lacks, firewire, ethernet, 1.9 in of screen. It comes with a CD instead of a DVD and can only handle 1/2 the total RAM. It's big brother, that only gives up 1.1 inches of display costs $450 more but adds in the DVD and an extra 20Gig of HD (but still lacks Ethernet and firewire) >>>In the meantime you pay a price premium for "state of the art" hardware<<< Call me stupid but I don't see the premium! I took the two systems you mentioned and they are just as expensive or more! For Apple to be successful, it needs to appeal to the largest possible segment of it's market with the fewest possible systems. This book edges closer to the sub-notebook class giving up very little (1 PCMCIA slot and drivebay). The proof of the wisdom in this compromise will be when you see similar systems comming from Dell, IBM and Sony. This laptop brings up an old saying. "Don't hate me just because I'm beautiful". P.S. If you are really an ex-apple employee, I would say the company is in better shape than it was. |
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