Comments on: Japanese engineers trash MacBook Air

A team of engineers from Japanese PC makers gang up on Apple's slender new laptop.

[Ronaldo_9999]

Th macbook air is a complete waste of money..it lacks in perfromance to the previous generation mac. has one usb port one micro dvi port and audio port and has no optical drive.and the remote drive technology is a hassle..they offer an external drive but who would want to carry both..In my opinion mac has sacrificed performance for look which i think is a mistake.
At the base price of 1899.99 the mac air comes with a standard parallel ATA 80gb drive this price should include the solid state drive instead..which they make you pay 990 extra for the ssd.
The only thing the mac air had going was the ssd and it being a new Technology it would have been one of the first computer with it from a major pc company.
don't even get me started with the processor .sure it has 2 gb of ram but as the ram is only as effcient as the proccessor that runs it which is a it running at 1.6 ghz the macbook is running at 2.2
The mac air is completly overpriced,lacks perfromance and one of the worst products apple has brought to the consumers. If you are looking for a portable computer with great portability look for the ASUS EEE its everything u want in a portable computer and for a fraction of the cost....it starting at around 400 and the hight end version at 550.

[peter.mortensen]

Sorry but this is just your opinion. When you buy clothes, food, cars etc. you choose based on your values. Apple is very succesful because increasingly people don't really care how many bullet points you can find in a feature list. If you buy your car mainly based on # cylinders, horse power, number of seats, engine technology etc. you are probably not the category of customer for the Macbook Air. If you buy your car based on design, styling, simplicity, color options, brand image etc. (same values that made iPod popular by the way) you might be the type of customer for Macbook Air.
If you know the current component pricing in NAND Flash memory technology you would also understand that a 80GB SSD flash drive is indeed very expensive to manufacture.
I have a Dell laptop but never use the DVD drive in it by the way. Also I've tried the EEE PC and was close to buying one but found it to be too low quality (display, keys, case etc.).

Great that Apple is addressing a true market segment that seems to grow quite rapidly (look at the iPod market share)!

[KittyAbra]

Actually, I'd trash it too.
I purchased a macBook Air, and guess what? - I'm very dissapointed with it..
It was quite stupied to buy it just because it's so thin and nice...and stuff...

the good news is that Apple will improve it a little...
http://www.maconair.com/macbook_air_patent_future_expansion

[shinklee]

LOL

Typical American propganda.
I am sure not all "Japanese Engineere" has trashed the macbook, I doubt even if one did.
This is just hype for Apple.