I refuse to click on this website on the grounds that i don't want to give this guy any more traffic for such a stupid thing. Pygmailion advertising is effective yes, but on the same respect i liken it to a bum trying to get money from me at an intersection.

I have this feeling though that the ibooks wont be running a core duo, only a core solo.

I think it's so costly because they want to suck every last dime out of you. If it were possible for companies to charge for water they would.... wait a second......

But seriously, a company has to cover overhead sure, but i think sometimes there's a limit, it makes companies lazy, R & D has really slowed down in the last few years for these sorts of technological marvals. It's like a cell phone, instead of making a kickass network, the company slaps a crappy camera on a phone and charges you another couple hundred dollars for it. I'd much rather pay the $300-400 for a phone every few years if that meant we had amazingly fast networks (like certain other countries). But we dont, and corportations are STILL charging us an arm and leg for it.

The one thing that really bugs me these days is that every company is trying to get some kinda continuous revenue stream, instead of trying to improve product after product. Back in the day a company would come out with a product, then once it hit end of life, they'd come up with something new, and sell it outright again. It seems to me that so many companies are trying to hemmorage money out of consumers via monthly payments. It used to be that the only consumer products really that required such a commitment were cell phones. To me, the TIVO lifetime subscription was the last of it's breed. It's getting to the point where i have so many different monthly reoccuring costs, that it's getting quite ridiculous. I know this is the way businesses these day just run, because it of course makes them more money. But honestly, im going to hate the day that software becomes entirely subscription based, and to use Windows you'll have to pay a $10 per month fee.

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Are you comparing this to the sony T150?? Uh, this one is lighter than the sony, has a 12.1 scren instead of a 10, it's running a Pentium M, and not a ULV chip, this one has an Nvidia chip instead of integrated intel graphics. it's all these things which cause the crappy battery life. Granted, if you're happy sacrificing performance and feature for battery life, great, but that's pretty much the case with every laptop up the line. My dell 700m is cheaper than your sony, and has all the features of yours plus a larger screen, faster processor, good battery life, tv out, etc.. and only about a pound heavier... the point im making is that sure you can always do a tad better by sacrificing something else.

What i think makes this laptop great is that they're playing to the crowd that aknowledges that an ultraportable is great for out of the office, but also knows how to treat some people who want a little more out of an ultralight. I think perhaps if they can follow in the footsteps of other companies and fit 2 video chips on a laptop (on board and add-in), so you can switch between them depending on task (being able to conserve battery life when you want to by using integrated). If they can do this while retaining some of these same kinda specs, then i believe perhaps in time we can find a very nice ultraportable / multimedia computer hybrid.

That's my hope anyway.