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Once the site loaded completely (which took a fair bit of time), I was able to use scrolling to move forward/backward through the animation of the demo. This is certainly an interesting UX, but after about 20 seconds of this I found it cumbersome.
no matter how pretty they make their laptops, they still run crappy software, IMO. i would buy this, wipe it out and load ubuntu, vs using windows. i find the ubuntu experience on dell laptops to be pretty good. i'm still rocking a e1405 with ubuntu 10.4
Always a good option, although you have to be wary with respect to wireless/wifi drivers. The ubuntu releases tend to trail new hardware for wireless networking by several months for new windows laptops.
So I clicked through this article, expecting something that totally misses the point (like their Adamo a few years ago). It doesn't match my immediate expectations. Which is good! The machine looks solid. I don't know if I like it more than my Air, but it looks promising. I keep clicking through. In a machine like this, two things really matter: keyboard and display. As allwein says in another comment thread, they do…
- 1080p screen
- 1080p web cam, tilting
- large choice of colors for the anodized aluminum lid (the carbon body is a nice touch, assuming they can't find factory capacities to produce a full aluminum body at the moment ?)
- matte cormin gorilla glass (no idea if that's physically and chemically possible but cool it would be)
- alternatively, a glossy screen which does not only look like but is a capacitative touch screen (I always end up trying to use touch on the macbook air, oh my)
- some other detail which really surprises people and makes you really want to own one of those ...
- linux driver support for all components
edit: - an external blue ray player, thin and matching in style
Still I'm looking forward to hear from people how the build-quality turns out, could be a nice affordable alternative for people looking for a windows notebook!
So I clicked through this article, expecting something that totally misses the point (like their Adamo a few years ago). It doesn't match my immediate expectations. Which is good! The machine looks solid. I don't know if I like it more than my Air, but it looks promising. I keep clicking through. In a machine like this, two things really matter: keyboard and display. As allwein says in another comment thread, they do…
Dell should have mentioned the resolution specifically, but it's also 1366 x 768, not 1280x720(720p). http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xpsL321x/en/sp...
I'm not trying to rip on you, but to me that's about all that says. (Yes, it's fairly standard among not-Apple laptops to put a 1366x768 13" panel in a laptop, but that's unacceptably crap given the competition.)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was one of the innovators in _affordable_ thin and light, though. While there were very light and thin laptops prior to the Air, they were usually either netbooks, or terribly expensive. Of course, so was the first-gen Air; the second one was really the interesting one.
nope, there were plenty of options like the Dell X1 (2.5lbs, 2005) and Sony VAIO Z (3.3lbs, 2000). these were mainstream and affordable and functional. the first air came in 2008.
All I want for Christmas is for a Linux optimized Ultra Book.
I hate flash so much mostly because it is impossible to get real data out of it. I mean, you support wifi? you don't say!
A 13" laptop a little bit bigger than the 11" Macbook Air, a little worse screen resolution than the 11" Macbook Air, at about the same price point as the 11" Macbook Air.