[Macworld]

Post your comments for MSI to sell MacBook Air-rival with Intel Pentium chips here

[ThomasGanter]

6 millimeters?

"The MSI X320 is just 6-millimeters (1.98-centimeters) at its thickest point."

??

[Macalways]

It all depends on how you spin itl
"With a maximum thickness of about 1.98 cm and just 6mm thick in parts…" http://global.msi.co...esc&news_no=720
http://global.msi.co...oads/Image/newsimg/0901099.jpg
Key phrase, "in parts." The hinge and the edges of the laptop look pretty thin.

[pcharles]

Ah! The joys of unit conversion!

[pistogrih]

Any news on what OS/distribution the Atom-based X320's will be using? Will it be a Linux distro with a custom front-end or a more general release?

[MacGod]

Pentium? I didn't realise Intel still used this branding. Looking at their site, I see it's a separate processor line than the Core2 line (or Core i7 line) used elsewhere. How does it compare to the Core series of processors?

[xStep]

How can this be a rival if it doesn't run OS X? I'd call it downgrade. ;)

[heisetax]

It can be a rival even if it doesn't run OS X. Many people choose their laptops because of size. If they choose this laptop over the Intel MacBook Air then it seems that it would be in direct competition. There can be many ways that there will indirect competition.

I'm not in the market for a thin laptop, Mac or other. I prefer my laptop to be thick enough to do the job I need to do. I would prefer my Mac to be thicker than the new 17" model. In that way it could have a user replacable battery & still have a 7/8 hours of rated use. Actual times seem to vary a lot. The 17" model seems to be close to what I want & need. The idea of a sealed battery causes the main concern.

It is interesting that Apple has to have a sealed battery to increase times while other manufacturers can do it with an easy to replace battery. Some even supply the end user with choices.

[Lord_Meroving]

I guess you haven't heard, the MSI Wind runs OS X just dandy. The best $349 OS X netbook that exists. Look it up.

More (usable) USB ports than the Air, card reader, regular VGA out and thousands less than the Air. Me and a bunch of my mates are as happy as jaywalkers.

[xStep]

1) You are breaking the EUL aggreement.
2) Any update may break your setup.
3) I still think that is cool!

[heisetax]

You need to publish where we can all lookup the needed info to run OS X on the various different Windows machines that it has been done on. There is a growing need to make a Mac Clone.

[heisetax]

The switch to Intel has made this all possible. It is too bad that Apple is a much more closed system than Windows when it comes to the ease of running the OS on different hardware. As those that have used micros for a longer period of time can remember when PCDOS was designed to run on IBM PCs only. But they allowed MS to keep a generic copy & it was called MS-DOS & thus started the IBM-Clone market. All that was needed was the reverse engineering of the bios roms. And other companies took care of that problem.

One reason that Apple probably have their EULA is that they want to make it more difficult to make Mac Clones than it was to make IBM PC Clones. But the want & need probably have many similar reasons for doing. But unlike MicroSoft, Apple wants to be a do all company. That means hardware, even though they don't make any of it anymore.

What makes these Clones so neat is that more of the reasons to have a computer & in this case a OS X running computer can be stated. Some are to run OS X at a lower price, to run OS X with the different hardware items that is wanted, the thrill of building your own PC, & still run OS X as its native OS, & to do things that Apple doesn't do because of the very limited number of models that they make. This keeps margins higher.