HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook?

Tom's Hardware has an interesting look at the HTC Shift, the newest contender in the ultralight portable arena, with a strong compare and contrast to the other two heavyweights, the ThinkPad X300 and the Macbook Air. "As some of you know, I actually like the Macbook Air but found the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 to be a vastly more useful product in the class. I'm one of the few folks that have been using an early version of the HTC Shift , a smaller screened ultra light tablet with a keyboard and a touch screen which is superior to both offerings in some ways and just released on Amazon.com for $1500 (someone screwed up, this wasn't supposed to happen until next week). This got me thinking: The perfect next generation ultra-sexy notebook should be a blend of all three products."

Perfect? For whom?

[Anonymous Coward]

My perfect laptop includes the following.

15-17" monitor
5" attachable monitor
webcam and mic on the front panel
as big as a keyboard as possible in relation to the monitor
swappable battery, dvdrw and >4 usb ports
and wifi

Yoda

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a very confusing headline.

I used one

[Anonymous Coward]

it's a toy. Don't buy it because it's too expensive. Tom's hardware is a joke in the meantime.

In my mind, if you want a laptop, there are two rifts. Either one that will serve alongside a desktop sibling which will be vastly more powerful, or a desktop replacement.

So either an EeePC or a MacBook Pro/IBM notebook. The HTC is EeePC at nearly the MBP price. Yuck.

Did no one notice?

[marcus]

This bit was written by the ever adorable Rob Enderle?

I'm surprised it even made it to the /. front page.

Re:Heavyweights?

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe this is what is commonly known as "a joke".

Rob Enderle..

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't the same guy who gushed over a Ferrari branded Laptop [slashdot.org]>

Re:He really wants a EEE PC.

[croddy]

no, think about it for a second -- put your fingers on home row. where is your thumb? a thumb pad always belongs in the middle, whether you're left-handed or right.

Re:Macbook air is FAR more than 2.5 hours...

[MojoStan]

Maybe Mac users compare the MacBook Air to non-Mac subnotebooks because some Mac users want some of the hardware features found in other subnotebooks that the MacBook Air lacks (e.g. optical drive, gigabit ethernet, more USB ports, user replacable battery, memory card slots), even if it means sacrificing some the Air's form factor (but not weight). I think they compare them because other notebook makers have proven that you can include these features in a subnotebook, but Mac users have no choice but to move up to the 5+ pound MacBook or 15+ inch MacBook Pro.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: they compare because they think Apple can do better (or offer more choice) in this category. Another thing some Mac users complain about: no Mac desktop that's not a huge dual-processor workstation and doesn't have a built-in display.

Re:He really wants a EEE PC.

[MrHanky]

No, the writer is Rob Enderle, the guy who defended SCO against the evil Linux copycats (and praised the VROOM-VROOM start-up sound on his Acer Ferrari). I doubt he wants to use a 'free software scam' like the Eee for anything.

Which raises the question of why a fluff piece by this idiot should be posted to Slashdot (or to Tom's Hardware in the first place).

Re:Ontological Argument for the Existence of Explo

[ScrewMaster]

That is a brilliant formation of an argument! Completely a priori, so it stands on its own without any experiential proof.

Yep. Just about as reasonable as the original claim that Macs have never been cracked, huh.