[X4U] MW Expo; I'm underwhelmed

[Eddie Hargreaves]

On 1/22/08 2:00 PM, Eugene <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:28:31PM CST, Ed Gould <edgould1948 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> On Jan 20, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Eugene wrote:
>>> 
>>> If you don't like it, don't buy it.  That's your choice.  Apple products
>>> are premium items and are priced accordingly.  But if you buy a Porsche
>>> to drive to work and wonder why your gasoline/petrol bill is so high,
>>> you have no one else to blame.  The rest of us are tired of hearing the
>>> non-complaints about a highly-specific and narrowly-targeted product.
>> 
>> Its almost like having an Apple sales rep sitting here trying to sell you
>> X when you really need Y. The question is are these people being paid by
>> Apple to be basically shills for them.
> 
> MacBook Air is "X".  You need "Y".  Define "Y".

For me, "Y" is the 12" PowerBook G4. It was situated perfectly between the
iBooks and the PowerBooks as something more powerful than the former, but
not as large as the latter. Apple now has nothing in that space.

-- 
Eddie Hargreaves