[mythtv-users] OT - Mac Advocacy, was; Which SVN?

[JS Boyd]

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>
>   
>> The MacBook Air is an awfully high price for a machine without an
>> optical drive, though I do note that Apple seems to be the first to
>> mass-market a machine with a solid-state drive.
>>     
>
> Yes, you get to charge a lot when you're the first to execute a cool  
> idea that works really well and there's no competition. :)
>
>   
They were not exactly first both the EEE PC and the OLPC XO use 
non-volatile solid-state memory as disk drives. And both are 
substantially less expensive than the Macbook Air.  There will be a 
whole lot of solid state based laptops real soon now and they'll cost a 
lot (a whole lot) less than Apple wants.



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