Even the four-year-old Sony X505 was thinner. The current Sony Vaio TZ series weighs 1.24kg with an optical drive and the Toshiba Portege R500 is nearly a third lighter at just 800g.
It has a 13.3-inch screen and weighs 1.3kg, which is too big and heavy to 'qualify' (under our admittedly vague system) as an ultraportable. It's logical that people should pay more for a thinner, lighter laptop, but the MacBook's dimensions still disappoint me. Okay, it's 500g heavier and a tiny bit fatter, but it has a faster CPU, double the hard drive space, and a graphics card and operating system that will run most games. Let's put things in perspective: a Dell XPS M1330 (once the "thinnest laptop in the world") is cheaper, even with a superior specification. That's way too much given the specification. The basic MacBook Air comes in at £1,199. Here are my top seven reasons why I believe the MacBook Air will be a massive flop. Now the drool oozing from the mouths of slack-jawed fanboys has dried, there's a window of opportunity for rational thinking. It's been a week since Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air and thankfully the hype has died down.
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