AGREED! Here, here!

Wait the Macbook Air uses a HDD? What the fuck? What kind of moron would design an ultra slim/small laptop without solid-state storage? Any hope Apple could have had for a future is gone out the window with this new knowledge I have of how stupid the engineers over at Apple are.

Anticrawl: you can get a solid-state drive. For an extra $1300.

It only has one USB port because the USB "Universal Serial Bus" allows for 127 devices per computer so you can add as many powered or non-powered hubs as you want to that one port and they all work.

And if you had every actually ever owned a MAC you would know that 2megs is allot of ram for the OS probably more than it needs to run comfortably since it doesn't have the MS feature creep or crappy kernel issues.

A bit of knowledge before posting stupidity goes can go along way.

- Brad

How dare you compare a device used by children and teenagers for video games to a device used by business executives in meeting rooms.

JK :)

@Brad: You shouldn't need to buy more hardware to get an acceptable number of USB ports, and 2 gigs isn't nearly enough to do much more than just "run the OS comfortably." That wouldn't even be nearly as bad if you could just buy more, but you can't.

And I've used Macs before. I used to do Mac tech support, ducky. Macs are like PCs for people who are too dumb to use PCs.

Roto13: "Macs are like PCs for people who are too dumb to use PCs."

And cheap shots are like rebuttals for people who are too simple-minded to construct them.

No one who has had actual experience working for Mac tech support would ever claim 2GB RAM is too little for a MacBook or MacBook Pro. Prior laptop iterations shipped with 1GB but recommended two for running Pro Tools and various other greedy apps. You couldn't go beyond 2GB in early iterations.

And by the way: Macs are for soundtrack composers, studio musicians and arrangers, film editors, and everyone who uses an AVID workstation professionally -- not because Macs are that different from or better/worse than PCs, but because they're the industry standard in most situations. Pros who need to work have to be compatible.

And lest you counter with the tired reminders that Avid/PT are made for PCs, too, I'll spare you the trouble and mention every fool knows that already. But you might want to tell that to post houses in LA and NYC that invested in $200,000 systems and aren't going to switch, and the clients who walk in every day expecting to work on Mac-based systems. At any rate, I'd love to watch you try.

I'll give you this, though -- the MacBook Air is a feature-starved, overly stylized, overpriced anorexic exec toy and the DS Lite is arguably the most charming, library-rich and economical game console in the world. Personally, I don't see the comparison, either.

Take a look at the past marketing campaigns of the Mac. They're full of people talking about how PCs are just too hard for them to figure out, how shiny the iPod is, and how nerdy PCs are. It's ridiculous.

I really can't be assed to bother with the rest of your comment because it's blaringly obvious to me and everyone else who knows what they're talking about that you're just talking out of your ass, but I do want to touch on one thing. I did work for Mac in the past. Or, rather, the company they outsource their tech support to. It's called NCO. I also worked for them doing customer support for Xbox and the MSN web browser. That particular center was in Surrey, BC.

"Take a look at the past marketing campaigns of the Mac. They're full of people talking about how PCs are just too hard for them to figure out, how shiny the iPod is, and how nerdy PCs are. It's ridiculous."

If you knew anything about computers, you'd be able to distinguish between target users, professional users and marketing strategies. In the beginning, Atari and Mac computers were the two music-based computer platforms in the world -- Macs in the US and Atari in Europe. The Atari died while the Mac spread everywhere else. It's pro users and the history of music and film computer you're obviously unfamiliar with.

"I really can't be assed to bother with the rest of your comment because it's blaringly obvious to me and everyone else who knows what they're talking about that you're just talking out of your ass. . . ."

It's amusingly obvious you can't bother with anyone's comment for the simple reason you can't put work out the difference between thought and hyperbole. If you could, then you'd argue your point convincingly instead of recycling one-liners from simple-minded Hollywood blockbusters.

". . . but I do want to touch on one thing. I did work for Mac in the past. Or, rather, the company they outsource their tech support to."

Even if that were true -- and your ignorance of model specs suggests it isn't -- allying yourself with Mac tech support is as damning as with ordinary Mac users. Mac phone tech support is notoriously amateurish and only succeeds in wasting users' time. Judging from your comments here, you'd be perfect for the job.

Luckily I have enough confidence in what I know to not give a rat's ass about what you think of me. *phew*

It doesn't matter what I "think of you" or what you think of me. What matters is that your present argument is as simplistic as it is bankrupt.

And just to clarify: When I say that Ataris and Macs were the two most commonly used music computer platforms in the world, I don't mean that PCs weren't used at all or weren't as good. But when you're talking about professional use, especially in the days long before convergence, you're talking about everyone using the same tools in order to make collaboration easier. Generally speaking, studio musicians tended to use Ataris in Europe and Macs in the US, just as many graphic designers grew up using Macs before apps like Photoshop were ported to the PC.

When you make the claim that Mac users are all idiots, you're disregarding the Mac's long-term professional base in music, film and graphic design. With Apple's emphasis on consumer machines and the interchangeability of hardware and software, that base could die out eventually. But it's still there now.

Besides, generalizing about any group of strangers -- for tech or political reasons -- is akin to ad hominem barking. If you're as savvy as you claim, then don't undermine that by resorting to user stereotypes. Brand warfare is the tech equivalent of xenophobia.

@Roto13 (first post)

Hahaha, everything you wrote was what I thought upon reading about the macbook air. It's form over function in every way.

Because we all know Apple is good at making things that play games. :D