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0 pointsseabriez3y ago0 comments

No it doesn't. It's essentially Air with just a few incremental upgrades, the same chip just with a few updates. It's a money grab. They will keep selling Air for $999 and pressure consumers into a higher price, as they typically do/and is their business mantra.

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onphonenow3y ago

How is $1,200 for this a money grab? Lenovo X1 starts at $1,500 or so and really you can't get it going for < 1,800.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/t...

seabriezOP3y ago

X1 is a Pro level device more comparable to MBP. Air is like a browsing the web laptop. It's in the class of laptops that should be $500. You are all so bedazzled by the hype machine that you don't even perceive how you are being fooled to pay a massive fee for EXTREMELY limited feature set of a laptop that's a class below. And Apple isn't even lying about that, Air is a hobby/not a pro level hardware. It's clear Air had more sales funnel than MBP and they wanted to tap into that money making funnel. Have fun with your 2 ports and single screen, and a phone like bezel with no FaceID LMAO. This is such a massive rip off lol, sorry to pour cold water on the hype, but that's just what it is.

Hell, they rewrote Google Work, hey, I'm Apple pay me $200 for rewriting software that has existed for 12 years already.

onphonenow3y ago

> "Air is like a browsing the web laptop. It's in the class of laptops that should be $500."

I do some volume purchasing of tech product (Lenovo / Dell Laptops and desktops + poweredge on server side + some networking on other gear). I like those products, they are fine.

That said, my wife has an air. I think folks are seriously underestimating the air if they are thinking it just something to browse the web.

The "pro class" X1 screen resolution is 1920 x 1200 / the "web laptop" Air is 2,560 x 1,600.

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onphonenow3y ago

How is $1,200 for this a money grab? Lenovo X1 starts at $1,500 or so and really you can't get it going for < 1,800.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadx1/t...

seabriezOP3y ago

Hell, they rewrote Google Work, hey, I'm Apple pay me $200 for rewriting software that has existed for 12 years already.

onphonenow3y ago

> "Air is like a browsing the web laptop. It's in the class of laptops that should be $500."

I do some volume purchasing of tech product (Lenovo / Dell Laptops and desktops + poweredge on server side + some networking on other gear). I like those products, they are fine.

That said, my wife has an air. I think folks are seriously underestimating the air if they are thinking it just something to browse the web.

The "pro class" X1 screen resolution is 1920 x 1200 / the "web laptop" Air is 2,560 x 1,600.

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