[Klug-general] ultra thin Apple Notebooks

[Alan Pope]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:59:23AM +0000, George Prowse wrote:
> Who would buy one without a CD/DVD player? Weird...
> 

Me. My eee has no optical drive and I dont miss it. 

Fact is everyone has their own specific requirements for a bit of kit. Some 
like big screens and "proper keyboards", others like long battery life, some 
like 3g built in, others like lots of USB ports. There is no "one size fits 
all" laptop.

This can be illustrated very will with one page on the Ubuntu wiki. Mark 
Shuttleworth asked people what they would like out of a "Free" (as in 
freedom" laptop. Just check out the myriad of "demands".

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreeSoftwareLaptop

I made a spreadsheet pulling together the content from that page and it's 
utter madness. People want a screen which is super thin, takes no power, is 
a multi-touch LED backlit high (and low) resolution display. They want a 
battery that lasts forever and a multi-multi core CPU and they want it now 
and for less than 500USD. 

In short they want the moon on a stick.

Cheers,
Al.