Samsung claiming "Lightest, Thinnest, and Incredibly Strong" NoteBook, MBA Shadow

[Brad L]

I bought the series 9 the day it was released and decided to return it 2 weeks later. Everything was great except for the display. I just can't handle a low resolution 16:9 display. It was fine for watching movies, but unacceptable for development applications. I just picked up the new mba 13" i7 yesterday. 16:10 display. Windows installed perfectly using bootcamp and I'm really liking the changes in Lion.

For those people who claim Samsung is copying. eh? really? I think that is absurd. I was buying portable mp3 players for years before the ipod was available. I never even considered to blame Apple for copying. I believe Epson released the first laptop; I wish apple would stop copying them! Hey peeps, this is the free market in action. It drives innovation and creates jobs. It's sad to see some people so devoted to a corporation; it's almost like a religion.

 

[JSalig]

I've researched other thinner and ligher laptops and there is almost always a huge flaw that makes it a dealbreaker.

 

[Horus]

The Samsung has:
-1.4 GHz Core i5
-1366 x 768

for ~1550

The Almighty Air has:
-1.7 GHz Core i5
-1440 x 900

for 1299

So,
Where's the Apple Tax now?

 

[Variant]

This IS a MacBook Air ripoff...

Asus



This IS NOT a MacBook Air ripoff...

Samsung


I don't think it is necessary to explain why, looking at those pictures alone.

 

[Krevnik]

Ah, I forgot they updated that awful piece of crap to include it. Not that any veteran Mac user would even contemplate enabling it.

Basically to appease the Windows users who'd migrated and wouldn't stop bitching.

Really? I'm a veteran Mac user that couldn't live without a two-button mouse (or at least an easy way to right-click) since MacOS 8 came out and finally supported context menus.

Although now I can get away with two-finger click, I never could get used to command-click.

 

[thuglove]

How is the Samsung a copy? It looks nothing like a MBA

 

[Tucom]

It's funny cuz I think Asus makes the MacBook Air for Apple, or at least machines the enclosure or maybe manufacturers the whole product (ofcourse Apple still had everything to do with its inception to build quality), but yeah I'm betting that Asus will be more or less a MacBook Air from build quality to performance (possible), which IS a copy. Competition can only be good, no?


I mean since Asus has hand in producing Apple machines, I think that blatant MBA "rip off", or copycat, is legit, respectable, and if its MBA standards in the right areas, it could be an excellent entry to more or less having a MBA (if priced cheaper), and ofcourse, wouldn't legally run OS X.

 

[Tucom]

And I think the point is not which LOOKS more like the MBA, but that there ARE notebooks being designed and produced, respectively, to have characteristics akin to the MBA, like the Samsung.


That Duralumin's pretty slick I gotta say, but I'd be willing to bet the MBA is still more solid feeling and overall built better, at least when it comes to the keyboard, but the Samsung I think is a respectable rival, or at least was..haven't peeped the specs thoroughly yet.