everyone cannot win Japanese.
and yea…the macbook air really do suck and cost too much.

you don’t dare Japanese….

sooner or later, US of A is going down~ when the Japanese starts owning it.

dude, i think you are an APPLE FAN BOY by reading the article. look at Thinkpad X300 only 800g heavier and it’s packed with ethernet, 2 extra usb, DVD!! better resolution! IT BACKS UP that what Japanese engineer said: so your article is worthless, sorry.

Come on, that article of so true. The Air is just full of it…AIR.

Have you seen the Toshiba Dynabook SS RX?

That laptop was out before Air, and it also sports a DVD, 3x USB, 1x SD Reader, 1x PCMCIA, 1x iLink, RGB, and still keeps it under 1100g. Trust me it will also fit in a same envelope Jobs used on his KeyNote…=P

Japanese engineers RULEZ!!!!!

I totally agree. Sadly there is a strong arrogance with many Japanese engineers.
Most of the time there is no reason for this arrogance since they are not able to do any better.
Often it seems they are just pissed, cause they did not have this idea. Then they talk bad about the product. Kind of a weak charakter.
This uppish behaviour lets them make many mistakes. Then they search somebody to blame for their mistakes.
All this makes it no fun to work in Japan.

About “real” journalism in Japan: There is none in mass media.

Comparing currently selling subnotebooks, the Air is cutting edge as a package deal.
It does not matter, whether the engineers could potentially do better, because if the consumer cannot buy that sweet device, it is the same as if they could not.

Of course, the Air looses in some categories to others like the Chinese Lenovo X300, but in the product portfolio of Apple and compared to those other machines it has distinctive selling points. Except me, at least management, marketing and sales departments of Apple seem to think so. It is not just about the engineers, else Sony would fare much better today.
Also, isn\’t technology globalized? Apple designs in California, with electronics mostly from Taiwan and surely an international staff there.

The Nikkei piece is just a commentary and those agreeing maybe have a hurt pride, because of a sinking market share and less labor market flexibility compared to their foreign counterparts?

I really dont want to admit it, but what lets Apple get away with the high retail price is not the cost of engineering or the superiority of the products (although OSX is Superior to Windows), IT’S THE BRAND! I can go into the whole marketing talk but let’s talk. It’s everything to do with the brand. It’s true that a similar computer can be built at a lower cost, and it has been done. But it won’t run bloody OSX and technically, that means it’s going to be less superior to the Macs. But if you think about it, Sony’s and Toshiba’s are very well made laptops, and much cheaper to make and repair, only because parts are EVERYWHERE (90% of the computer market says so). But…they run Windows.

Actually i would rather get a Toshiba Protege R500
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3769

It isn’t as thin but at least i’m not paying more for less.

The AC adaptor for Macbook Air is probably thicker anyway >.<

It is good if the price drops by maybe 30%

God love a good flaming!!
Remeber the time?( one winter olympics it was) and all the european teams had trouble getting their ski`s into Japan!
Because the Japanese officals said they wouldn`t work properly on Japanese snow!!!!
FFS
Japanese need to pull thier heads out there arse “BIG TIME”
Oh boo hoo ,the chinnese this ,the koreans that!
And this mag lev train you are spending BILLIONS on and still be slower than the germans or chinnese…
Get a democracy,real media,a life, Stop watching all those BORING shows with the same people doing the same dull things…
To all the Japanese whingers–I`ll tell you the best thing about japan,beside taken ya women ;P, is we can leave any time we want!!! your stuck in this dump.
now go play with your hair and make yourself like a girl you are! (hair on ya chest??)
Ah feel better after that
thanks now time to go get some JP peach ;P
V D R

Very few Apple products compete with “high end” products in power or tech anymore.
They sell because they make and market a “trendy” product. It looks “cool”, feels “cool”, so it must be cool right?!? LoL.

Its a review of a review and Apple doesn’t make broken junk. Just not the best.

(I primarily use PCs)

“Remeber the time?( one winter olympics it was) and all the european teams had trouble getting their ski`s into Japan!
Because the Japanese officals said they wouldn`t work properly on Japanese snow!!!!
FFS
Japanese need to pull thier heads out there arse “BIG TIME”
Oh boo hoo ,the chinnese this ,the koreans that!
And this mag lev train you are spending BILLIONS on and still be slower than the germans or chinnese…
Get a democracy,real media,a life, Stop watching all those BORING shows with the same people doing the same dull things…
To all the Japanese whingers–I`ll tell you the best thing about japan,beside taken ya women ;P, is we can leave any time we want!!! your stuck in this dump.
now go play with your hair and make yourself like a girl you are! (hair on ya chest??)
Ah feel better after that
thanks now time to go get some JP peach ;P
V D R”

Umm.. yeah, and they need to hire better engrish teachers as well. LOL.

well they complain that the keyboard takes too many screws, even if doesn’t bend thanks to the screw. They also say that “they FEEL LIKE they could find something better”

basically the article is full of shit and vapor.

maybe the macbook air isnt that good, but that ain’t demonstrating that. Is anyone reading the linked article beside me or just flaming cuz “dont like apple” or “like apple” …

Your tone sounded exactly like a closeted APPLE fan boy… even though might deny it!!! like all other fan boys!!

Akihabra seriously needs a boost in terms of the quality of their writing and I guess there staff as well. This is piss-pour journalism at its finest. Seriously, \”FXXCK?\” what are you? A junior high girl?

How about throwing some more objectivity in the writing in order to avoid sounding like a douchebag.

This remembers me that Morning Musume song…

“Nippon no mirai wa, sekai ga urayamu…”

ok, apple rulez, oh it’s a joke, they make goods for idiots thats it. Fashion is for fan boys and fags (almost the same thing) and of course for women that prefer beauty shit against functional goods.
Oh shure, japanese are all cheater, because they have the 2nd world biggest economy based on technological production only manufacturing junk, bad cars, bad electronic, bad robots and so all bad.
Well, consumers are all idiots, they prefer to buy worst than better.
I like to listen the true about Japan and other stuffs but when somebody says Japanese don’t know about something they are the pros, I know the guy is a complete STUPID.

Guys, I own one. Badly designed? Bullshit. The best smalles sub-notebook. Lenovo X300 has more features, but it does not runs OSX. Windows is a total crap and Linux is not for desktops, sorry.

Where oh where is the Japanese OS that can compete with Windows, let alone OSX? Engineers? You ain’t got no engineers. You got fitters and turners.

Seriously, if you don’t like the fact that the MBA has 1 usb, no dvd, no ethernet and misc holes on the side of the laptop, then you’re not the target audience for this product. (who even uses the stupid ethernet port or modem port anyways? To be truthful, I’ve never used 1 in 5 years !)
I had my MBA for months and to be honest, I’ve never ached over the 1 usb or lack of dvd drive(I use networked images so I don’t even need the drive).