That's one good looking netbook. I wonder if they'll start selling chargers which will double as USB hub.

They are going too far for a clean look, to take off usb ports...Love the design though, just hate the $80 more dollars for a port attachment.

I find the $1300 price tag for what is essentially a netbook running OSX to be ridiculous.

Isn't it more of an ultrabook then a netbook? Most ultrabooks are priced that high, at least the higher quality ones are. Also Core M is like stupidly good. 1/3 the wattage of Haswell for the same performance. Can't wait to see the Surface Pro 4 with one of these.

How are the temps on this thing?

Just another underpowered device I have no interest in.

I find the $1300 price tag for what is essentially a netbook running OSX to be ridiculous.

I agree. I cannot see what justifies that price tag. I understand the build quality is nice, but come on. Apple has always amazed me on pricing.

I agree. I cannot see what justifies that price tag. I understand the build quality is nice, but come on. Apple has always amazed me on pricing.

You could say the same thing for a Toyota or a pair of shoes. People with disposable income usually don't want the cheapest possible product. A better question would be, why do many people prefer Apple over x?

A better question would be, why do many people prefer Apple over x?

Branding and the walled garden approach to the OS. For the majority of people who don't want to or can't "understand" PC's for what ever reason these are great products. Turn it on and point them at the web...pretty much what this will be aimed at with minimal customization and tweaking required or available. Keep it simple, keep it stylish, keep it expensive/designer and keep them coming. One thing that bug's me on this though is the screen resolution...I mean what the ****. Why not just use a 2560x1440 resolution display instead of that 2304 x 1440 which just seems to be pulled out of thin air. Unless of course im missing something with that particular ratio?

My only problem with these new notebooks is that they are essentially soldering all of the hardware right onto the board. Ssd or ram develops a bad sector? Replace the whole board. In many ways it practically forces you to buy the applecare.. I can't help by feel that was all part of their plans behind the design.

Branding and the walled garden approach to the OS. For the majority of people who don't want to or can't "understand" PC's for what ever reason these are great products. Turn it on and point them at the web...pretty much what this will be aimed at with minimal customization and tweaking required or available. Keep it simple, keep it stylish, keep it expensive/designer and keep them coming. One thing that bug's me on this though is the screen resolution...I mean what the ****. Why not just use a 2560x1440 resolution display instead of that 2304 x 1440 which just seems to be pulled out of thin air. Unless of course im missing something with that particular ratio?

The 2304 x 1440 resolution is to make it an aspect ratio of 16:10. It's a weird way to do it, but it works.

You could say the same thing for a Toyota or a pair of shoes. People with disposable income usually don't want the cheapest possible product. A better question would be, why do many people prefer Apple over x?

If I had to guess, many people buy it because of the brand. I strongly believe Apple are at the top of the list when it comes to number of brand fanboys. Let's be serious. Apple has always had huge amounts of capital invested in marketing. That is not to say they don't make good products. They're decent, but overpriced. And some of them are even good in certain situations. IIRC, macs are used in music because they offer free music hosts with it and decent audio cards. Laptop manufacturers always seem to skip on audio cards.

Branding and the walled garden approach to the OS. For the majority of people who don't want to or can't "understand" PC's for what ever reason these are great products. Turn it on and point them at the web...pretty much what this will be aimed at with minimal customization and tweaking required or available. Keep it simple, keep it stylish, keep it expensive/designer and keep them coming. One thing that bug's me on this though is the screen resolution...I mean what the ****. Why not just use a 2560x1440 resolution display instead of that 2304 x 1440 which just seems to be pulled out of thin air. Unless of course im missing something with that particular ratio?

I feel you. It looks like a weird resolution. About the tweaking part, from what I've gathered the iOS doesn't require tweaking simply because it lacks a ton of features present in android. I mean really, upon first use android just asks you for a google account and if you wanna put a PIN/pattern/password on your screen. Then you're good to go. This is stock androids of course. Some custom ROMs on the other hand give you perfect freedom to do anything you please. Wanna crash apps? Do it. Wanna crash your whole OS? Do it. (these are actually features of dev suites in some ROMs) I mean really. The only things that require tweaking are customizations, where the iOS lacks severely. It doesn't even have a desktop for crying out loud! You know, as in their desktop is the app drawer! How can you have a smartphone without a desktop where you can shortcut your most used apps?

Will it bend?

The sad part is the design of it looks amazing, but too many compromises when looking at this...

If I had to guess, many people buy it because of the brand. I strongly believe Apple are at the top of the list when it comes to number of brand fanboys. Let's be serious. Apple has always had huge amounts of capital invested in marketing. That is not to say they don't make good products. They're decent, but overpriced. And some of them are even good in certain situations. IIRC, macs are used in music because they offer free music hosts with it and decent audio cards. Laptop manufacturers always seem to skip on audio cards.

Their attention to design is where that cost is justified. I mean you can say what you want, but Apple was the first to really push the industrial design of not only laptops (with aluminum unibody) but phones as well. 3 years ago every single person sat here and talked about how the iPhone was stupid because it didn't have a user replaceable battery, SD card or has a glass back. They talked about how plastic was better (which I actually agree with) than aluminum and that the design of the iphone didn't matter, features sell. Well now HTC's flagship is also aluminum. And the S6 ditched IP67, SD Card, plastic and removable battery and it's now made out of aluminum chassis with a glass back. As for the laptops it's the same thing. Every single manufacturer was in a complete race to the bottom. HP/Dell/Lenovo, they all started shipping absolute garbage laptops with cheap plastic clips holding everything together. Terrible TN screens that wouldn't even display an image without sitting directly in front of it. .3MP webcams. Keyboards who's keys break off within 1000 presses. Margins on these machines was razor thin and the cheaper they could go with every component the better. Apple started changing all that when they actually started calibrating their laptop displays. Using uni-body aluminum chassis. Started paying attention to not only the specs but the form factor as well. The Macbook Pro's with the X1600's in them back in 2006 were gorgeous devices compared to garbage like this: http://www.notebookcheck.net/typo3temp/_processed_/csm_hp_dv9580eg_gesamtkleinneu_b0a3f73ef8.jpg Apple raised the bar in a lot of different areas and I'd argue that their marketing was the reason why other manufacturers were successful. No one gave a crap about things like screen calibration/quality on phones, camera quality, pixel density, materials, etc until they made a big deal out of it. Yeah I mean some manufacturers were pushing to differentiate themselves in certain ways, but the bar was always so low that it was essentially irrelevant. And honestly, in most cases their stuff isn't even that overpriced. Can anyone show me a laptop with similar specs to that, at that price range? Dell XPS13 comes close, but it's FHD TN, has 4GB of ram and 120GB SSD for $200 less.

Who cares ????

Good post^

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From what I understand, the logic board is smaller than the rasberry pi and the rest of it is filled with the battery. Here's what i'm talking about http://www.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2015-03-09_13-18-58.jpg

From what I understand, the logic board is smaller than the rasberry pi and the rest of it is filled with the battery. Here's what i'm talking about http://www.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2015-03-09_13-18-58.jpg

Wow.