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if you're considering a macbook air then i suspect the s10 or sony are closest to what you want. personally, i'd go for one of the other two...
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I did a search for X220 and found this: http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-x220... Are you serious? This doesn't look like anything that may compete with Macbook Air in my book. Not to seem too negative, but the overall design is reminiscent of old laptops from the year 2001. (Typical for PC laptop designers).
> but the overall design is reminiscent of old laptops from the year 2001 The chunky black plastic is just as much a part of the Thinkpad brand as the unibody is for the Macbooks.
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> but the overall design is reminiscent of old laptops from the year 2001 The chunky black plastic is just as much a part of the Thinkpad brand as the unibody is for the Macbooks.
if it's anything like earlier x series, it's actually a cast metal base.
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Do you buy your laptops primarily to look at them, or to use them?
One of my clients is swapping all of their sales people out of their windows laptops and into MacBook Airs because the sales people just need office and a web browser and the airs are far more impressive looking. I have another client where the sales people have windows laptops, but they're not allowed to bring them to client meetings, instead they have to bring their iPads. Sometimes form _is_ more important than fu…
Agreed, I have zero problems with this statement when qualified.
X201s, a previous model to the X220 (along with the non "s" X201) has a higher resolution display (1440x900 same res as Mac Air 13) than the X220 (1366x766) and weighs about 1/2 lb less than the X220. Loaded with SSD and 8 GB RAM it is my preference over the X220. If a 12.5" screen vs. the Mac Air 13.3" screen works for needs then you might consider this machine. The Thinkpad Trackpoint is great once you get used to…
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Do you buy your car to look at it or drive it? Etc, etc, etc...
but if your car looks like a toilet with wheels it is no fun to drive. everything matters, function, form, feeling.
Macbook Pro 13" for $999, then add whatever SSD you're willing to spring for. This way you get * the unibody * the magsafe * the battery of the MBP * the flexibility to easily use OSX if you ever need to (without doing the sketchy hackintosh approach) * the resale value of the MBP And you get a lot more machine for the money than the MBA. The one cost you have to accept is the weight. But that's giving you a very stu…
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+1 for x220 8) The nipple mouse in the middle of the keyboard means you never have to take your hands away from home row.
Indeed. So awful you will never want to use it and will just use the keyboard instead ;-)
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I did a search for X220 and found this: http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-x220... Are you serious? This doesn't look like anything that may compete with Macbook Air in my book. Not to seem too negative, but the overall design is reminiscent of old laptops from the year 2001. (Typical for PC laptop designers).
> This doesn't look like anything that may compete > with Macbook Air in my book > design is reminiscent of old laptops from the year > 2001 1. The age of the design shouldn't necessarily say anything about how good it is. Would you claim that we should just get rid of art museums because everything in them is just 'too old?' 2. The ThinkPad was praised for it's industrial design back in it's day. 3. There are many p…
X201s, a previous model to the X220 (along with the non "s" X201) has a higher resolution display (1440x900 same res as Mac Air 13) than the X220 (1366x766) and weighs about 1/2 lb less than the X220. Loaded with SSD and 8 GB RAM it is my preference over the X220. If a 12.5" screen vs. the Mac Air 13.3" screen works for needs then you might consider this machine. The Thinkpad Trackpoint is great once you get used to…
Vaio Z with it's 13" 1080p screen for 2 kilobucks.