

Apple dominates tablet market


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RE: Apple macbooks
By testerguy on 5/23/2012 4:22:46 AM , Rating: 0
This entire anti-Apple rant brought to you by a guy who has clearly never owned multiple $1,000 laptops and actually used them and compared them, particularly the Macbook Air.

Looks alone doesn't even scratch the surface of why the Macbook Air is the best value high performance laptop right now. The screen is simply excellent, has been widely raved about in numerous reviews. The SSD is lightning fast, it performs way better than my Quad SSD setup in my much more expensive Sony Vaio laptop. Things like the screen hinge, backlit keyboard, and size of the mouse pad and its gestures are simply unparalleled by ANY other laptop, regardless of price. I've used it for a year now and it's never slowed down, never crashed, I benchmarked the SSD's and they run faster than the OCZ Revodrive in my main desktop pc.

It's thinner and lighter than basically any laptop you can put it against - the Asus UX21 is basically the only similar laptop in the same price bracket, which has no backlit keyboard, worse mouse-pad, worse screen, and costs pretty much the same.

There is essentially no better laptop than the Macbook Air at the same price point which offers all of its thinness, lightness, speed, backlit keyboard, excellent screen, enlarged and high quality mouse mat, oh and the excellent battery life too. Some ignorant people may point to bulkier laptops which perform better on a specification level but to do so would be to misunderstand what an Ultrabook actually is. You can also run Windows on it. As for ports - there are only a few ports but you don't really ever need them if you're an up-to-date modern professional (the target market for this laptop). 2 USB sockets is plenty, Mini display port to HDMI etc is no problem, it's basically the best laptop I've ever owned. And I say that having used it every day alongside a Sony Vaio and Asus UX21. There is no comparison.

