Samsung X360 in dogfight with Apple MacBook AIR

[Harbourmaster]

Why Samsung’s X360 Is The Ultralight The MacBook Air Should Have Been

"Late last week at the IFA Consumer Electronics trade fair in Berlin, Samsung announced its new X360 ultralight, ultrathin laptop aimed directly at the MacBook Air's wheelhouse."

http://www.macopinion.com/index.php/site...have_been/



"In short, the Samsung X360 is, if not everything, at least most things the MacBook Air should be but isn't. To paraphrase Bare Bones Software's slogan, "it doesn't suck," while the MacBook Air, despite its aesthetic charm, does in too many ways.

Of course the downside is that you can't run the Mac OS (at least legally) on the Samsung X360, but desktop Linux is getting better all the time, and if I had a need for a subnotebook workhorse computer as a road-warrioring work tool, I would find the X360 awfully tempting, and the MacBook Air not at all. Something for Apple to chew on, and serious subnotebook fans can only hope that the rumors of a subcompact MacBook Pro have some substance."

[rgG]

serious subnotebook fans can only hope that the rumors of a subcompact MacBook Pro have some substance.

Not bloody likely.

[sekker]

This is a nice, little-compromise subnotebook. I consider the Air to be too much of a toy, not a real machine, for my personal taste.

I noticed over the weekend in a local ad for a Sony laptop for $799 - that had all the specs of a macbook plus a few nice features, and includes Sony's software version of iLife. I know, I know - it's not a mac. But with the integrated Sony digital imaging and related software that DOES work with the hardware, that machine is pretty much everything a macbook is - and at least $400 LESS than an equally configured Apple laptop.

I think Apple is counting on multi-touch to distinguish their hardware in the next couple years - the windows world has pretty much commoditized the best innovative features of our favorite Apple laptops.

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WTF?

The Samsung X360 isn't a subnotebook. The MacBook Air is.

The Samsung X360 is also ugly:

[DaviDC.]

There's nothing ugly about this computer, aside from the fact it runs Windows.

[kj4btkljv]

Still with a VGA video out? In this digital age?

I see it's got HDMI, so that's good, I guess.

Jeff

[Drew]

Why do they put the up/down scroll arrow on the trackpad? Do Windows people constantly forget about such features?

[RAMd®d]

Actually, that is an ugly computer, compounded by the fact that it *only* runs Windows,

It's somewhat nice looking from only *one* angle.

Though the MBA is not for everyone, it's a far cry from being a "toy". I want a couple of more tweaks before I get one, but it won't take much.

Maybe this month I'll see enough upgrade to make me PTT.