Thin is the new stupid%u2014or, since the fad has been around since the RAZR phone, maybe I should say, "Thin is the old stupid that won't go away."
From the user's perspective, it makes no sense to make a laptop super thin. The width, length, and slipperiness of the case means we have to carry it about in a laptop bag. Once in that bag, the thickness matters not. In fact, in most cases the bag's padding will the two or three times a laptop's thickness.
This designer fad isn't driven by any user needs. The user benefits from engineering that isn't constrained by a thinness obsession. Thicker is sturdier. Thicker vents better and runs cooler, something that will matter a lot in this fanless model. Thicker allows a larger battery and thus a longer battery life. The last is where it gets seriously practical. I have yet to figure out why Apple doesn't offer a thicker model whose only difference is a thicker case to hold a larger battery.
The sort of thinness that Apple is apparently attempting to achieve makes sense only if you have a Swiss-knife view of a laptop, meaning that you expect it to do double duty as a knife to slice bread.
Go buy a fat pc and leave us alone.
Actually, I think he still pines for an original Compaxx lugable. Now there was a man's computer! Not something a girly man could tote around.
I think the thinner these things get the less productive they become.
Curiously, the 11" MacBook Air is by far the most popular model as their primary computer for Apple employees for those who have a choice. Unless they work in a specific Mac product division, that's what Apple employees prefer, according to several friends who work at Apple.
Then again, the typical Apple employee doesn't get paid to edit massive image files or 4K video.
Apparently some people look at their individual needs and tasks before selecting what would be an appropriate tool.
I think the traditional thinking was to buy all the computer a person could afford because by the time you needed to upgrade the previous purchase was horribly underpowered and painfully slow. While that is less of the case these days, the impulse to overbuy is still there.
Love the ideal but loss of ports, click less trackpad, please no, they could always make it same thickness across it but still thinner(at thickest point currently) for it, wonder what price will be and if they keep(maybe upgrade) the old 11 and 13 inch models.
Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in April that he expects Apple to launch the 12-inch MacBook Air in quarter three, but more recent rumors suggest an actual launch might not happen until 2015.
Quoting him is more than enough to show this is BS!
P.S: Well it comes from DigiTimes, which is even worse than Kuo could ever be.
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Actually, I think he still pines for an original Compaxx lugable. Now there was a man's computer! Not something a girly man could tote around.
I think the traditional thinking was to buy all the computer a person could afford because by the time you needed to upgrade the previous purchase was horribly underpowered and painfully slow. While that is less of the case these days, the impulse to overbuy is still there.
And 99% of Kasper's cash flow.
So it's a false, deceptive, dishonest comparison...
But the real comparison isn’t. His point continues to stand.
Wrong.
Okay, so how about you prove it instead of sticking your fingers in your ears.
Quoting him is more than enough to show this is BS!
P.S: Well it comes from DigiTimes, which is even worse than Kuo could ever be.