When did I make such a comment ? You're confusing me with someone else.
Again, I'm only taking exception to people who say the "Air" is not a "Pro machine" because "Pros needs optical drives or a dedicated GPU or a platter based spinning hard drive or insert your favorite feature here". I'm a professional, I use my MBA to work, and I have no need for that stuff.
It's the grand sweeping generalization and pigeon holing I'm talking about.
I'll reread that part of the thread later. Sorry if I made a mistake. I kind of hate the attachment to the naming convention of computers myself. With platter drives, the issue seems to be one of having as much storage as possible. Sometimes an external drive is necessary, but it's just how much you can get before you must grab another item (which is annoying for a mobile computer). I think they'd burn more people with lack of a dedicated gpu. Intel graphics have such a stigma, and many opengl intensive applications and games don't really optimize toward those models. Up to this point OpenCL hasn't even been a feature of the integrated gpus (supposed to change next generation). I think that one might be more of a sticky point because it affects a number of overlapping groups, and then there are even more people who believe they're affected by the change even if they're not