It will still come with Windows Vista, the computer operating system designed to weigh computers down like a stone, from the 10 death marks of Windows; CE, ME & NT
The Register scraping the barrel again, and failing to come up with anything plausible.
"MBA Beater" and "The R600 still has the same dangerously bendy 12.1in, 1280 x 800 screen found on the R500". So let me see if I get this right, making something inferior to the MBA qualifies it as an MBA Beater? Is that in the same way as people on Benefit are Captains of Industry?
Perhaps it would be simpler, better, and less painful if El Reg got back to simply reporting facts and left out the personal prejudices and opinions. This old crank of yours is getting tiresome and making you like one of our daily Red Tops. What next, Page Three pictures?
IT? - Because this article has bugger all to do with IT and more to do with airing prejudices.
No, it isn't. The MBA is a gimmick, loved only by those who don't need to actually DO stuff; the benchmark is the Lenovo X300, in comparison to which, both this Tosh AND the MBA score a massive fail.
Sure it doesn't have many ports, only has 100Mb ethernet and has no on board DVD, but it utterly destroys any of the other super thin and light machines where it matters, on performance.... the only one that really bugs me is the ethernet speed, but that's only an issue when moving large files around on a network, otherwise none of the supposed "MBA Beaters" even come close to beating it... but people will always profess how much greater it is because of all the unnecessary features that are used so infrequently... buy a £4 USB hub and you're done.
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Toshiba launches latest MacBook Air beater
Anonymous Coward
Macbook #
Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 18:01 GMT
Is the Macbook Air comparison really necessary, or is this site now taking a leaf out of Engadget's book?
Besides, the MBA blows.
netean
price #
Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 21:00 GMT
it's certainly moving towards the price of a macbook!
But will it run osx I wonder?
Rich
What're you on about? #
Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 21:00 GMT
Looks bugger all like the Mac Book Air. It has an optical drive, for starters.
foof
Stupid title #
Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 21:00 GMT
It can't be a MacBook Air beater if it doesn't run OS X.
And yes, the MBA blows.
Alexis Vallance
'MacBook Air beater'??? #
Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 21:00 GMT
Surely the whole point of the MBA is that it's anorexic-thin. It's features are secondary.
So until another manufacturer releases a notebook 1mm thinner, it's impossible for there to be a 'MBA beater' I would have thought.
Anonymous Coward
fatline #
Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 21:00 GMT
The MacBook Air's gimmick is 'thin'. How can it be a MacBook Air beater when it is twice as fat?
Anonymous Coward
MacBook Air #
Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 23:42 GMT
Like it or not, the Air is the benchmark by which other light laptops are judged.
Similarly, why do you think other devices are often described as iPod- or iPhone beaters? (and then fail miserably in the process).
Apple sets the standard. Design matters.
N
so what? #
Posted Thursday 9th October 2008 23:42 GMT
It will still come with Windows Vista, the computer operating system designed to weigh computers down like a stone, from the 10 death marks of Windows; CE, ME & NT
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Anonymous Coward
Nice #
Posted Friday 10th October 2008 07:19 GMT
pwns the MBA on features, having wired ethernet and more than one USB slot.
Danny Thompson
Must try harder .... #
Posted Friday 10th October 2008 07:19 GMT
The Register scraping the barrel again, and failing to come up with anything plausible.
"MBA Beater" and "The R600 still has the same dangerously bendy 12.1in, 1280 x 800 screen found on the R500". So let me see if I get this right, making something inferior to the MBA qualifies it as an MBA Beater? Is that in the same way as people on Benefit are Captains of Industry?
Perhaps it would be simpler, better, and less painful if El Reg got back to simply reporting facts and left out the personal prejudices and opinions. This old crank of yours is getting tiresome and making you like one of our daily Red Tops. What next, Page Three pictures?
IT? - Because this article has bugger all to do with IT and more to do with airing prejudices.
Greg
"Macbook Air Beater?" #
Posted Friday 10th October 2008 07:53 GMT
Gimme a break. The MBA is crap! Beating it isn't exactly difficult.
Nick Palmer
@AC "Macbook Air" #
Posted Friday 10th October 2008 09:47 GMT
No, it isn't. The MBA is a gimmick, loved only by those who don't need to actually DO stuff; the benchmark is the Lenovo X300, in comparison to which, both this Tosh AND the MBA score a massive fail.
Alexis Vallance
Why? #
Posted Friday 10th October 2008 09:47 GMT
"Gimme a break. The MBA is crap! Beating it isn't exactly difficult."
What's the point of posting without actually explaining why?
Scott Mckenzie
Hmmm... #
Posted Friday 10th October 2008 12:01 GMT
....how exactly is the MBA crap?
Sure it doesn't have many ports, only has 100Mb ethernet and has no on board DVD, but it utterly destroys any of the other super thin and light machines where it matters, on performance.... the only one that really bugs me is the ethernet speed, but that's only an issue when moving large files around on a network, otherwise none of the supposed "MBA Beaters" even come close to beating it... but people will always profess how much greater it is because of all the unnecessary features that are used so infrequently... buy a £4 USB hub and you're done.
Volker Hett
The MBA blows? #
Posted Friday 10th October 2008 12:50 GMT
I have only limited experience with MBAs as intimate as this, and no, she doesn't.
Paris, she's got no MBA but ...
:-)
Anonymous Coward
@Nick Palmer #
Posted Friday 10th October 2008 16:12 GMT
I'll concede your point when a machine is described as a 'Lenovo X300-beater'.
Noah Zerkin
Nonetheless... #
Posted Monday 13th October 2008 17:48 GMT
"Why do you keep saying that word? I don't think it means what you think it does."