[Macworld]

Post your comments for Samsung aims at Apple with slim laptop here

[garyi]

Well its much better specced and cheaper. End of story for most.

[bethanyboo]

How do you know it's cheaper?
"Pricing and launch details for other markets were not announced. "

[gossamer88]

Heard it's going for 1800. Put Leopard on this baby and you'll have a screamer!

[kazmi]

Copying hardly creates anything original. It is always remembered with reference to the original.

[kazmi]

It would be nice to see all Macs with SSDs and longer battery life.

[JMStafford]

I would just like to see a 128gb SSD option for the Air.

[mac_user21]

so it don't release in US and Canada? and more, why choose name x360? after Xbox 360?

[TxTom]

Seen here: (Thanks for the link to view, MW!
http://gizmodo.com/5...-x300-territory
I'd say it's taking a 'shot' at the ultra-lightweight market which also includes a lenovo product. Not just the Air. In fact, to me, it looks more like the Lenovo than the Apple.

[danviento]

Have you seen this thing?
Top (open and closed): bland
Side profile: fugly
I know we all care more about specs and abilities (this Samsung is said to be SLOWER) but when you dolling out this much cash for a toy of a machine, you might as well get the one that looks amazing.

[karlfranz]

Would it be too much to ask for MacWorld to include a darn picture of the actual product every time they post an article introducing a new product?
Thanks to TxTom for doing MacWorld's work.

[Martian]

The Macbook Air’s design criterion of cool and erotic form-over-function won't fly outside of Appledom.
You can’t sell PC’s with an artificially restricted range of connectivity choices. And alibis for the design based on squashed phallic profile with the small end being 3 nanometers thinner, also won't fly.

[jedi228]

The phrase "Lighter than Air" is clearly intended as a jab at Apple by the marketing person who wrote it. But the X360 is not a copy and it is Apple who is late to the game of sub-notebooks. As the article points out, they aren't really competitors and aren't really that similar.

[heisetax]

The comparison between the Intel MacBookAir & this Samsung x360 is another glaring example that Apple delivers more style than substance. Apple makes a nice looking 7" Intel MacBook Pro, but where is the numeric keypad? Not present like on the 17" HP laptop, & also not present on the Apple Al BoothTooth keyboard. Just more style over substance. These are just some of the things that make people want a Mac Clone. They want & need many more useful features than Steve Jobs think that we need.

Unless we take more design items in our own hands we'll have to be second or third level when it comes to our computers.

Since Samsung makes the SSD they can put more memory into theirs. What we need to compete at a closer useful feature level would be things like 160GB SSD with an internal 500GB hard drive. Numeric keypad as an option at least on the 17" laptop. I'd like to go the way that has more substance & then they can add all the style they want as long as they do not take away from the substance part.

If Apple would add more substance they would be better where it counts in real life & when yhou want good look Apple would still be far ahead of the competition.

We all need to ask Apple why we must be second class computer hardware users. The OS may be better, the hardware may look better, but with more good & useful hardware features can make up on those first 2 items.

Maybe some good Clones would make Apple feel the pressure. Better featured computers seem to make no difference. Rather than putting some good hardware substance in the Mac, things are left out becaue of style constraints,

Apple do a better job than Samsung, or is this a no-no because Samsung makes some of the Apple memory & other items?