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

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 7:24 PM, JS Boyd wrote:

> 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.

I wasn't talking about just the solid state drive. I was also talking  
about the LED backlit display, battery life, weight and size.