A mix of MacBook Air and Lenovo’s X300 – the perfect portable?

by Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Page 1 of 2 ! Miniaturisation has delivered us the MacBook Air, the Lenovo X300, the Eee PC and the upcoming HTC Shift. Analyst Rob Enderle, among others, wants to see a merger of these types of devices to create the perfect portable PC. An article at TG Daily has well known US technology analyst Rob Enderle talking about the perfect portable PC. He theorises that it could well be a mix of the Lenovo X300, the MacBook Air and the HTC Shift, perhaps using the ‘butterfly’ keyboard that IBM introduced back in 1995 and shelved ever since. Although the MacBook Air is an astoundingly thin computer, complaints that it runs far too hot, even shutting down when running processor-heavy applications, forced Apple to release an update that some claim did nothing, while others say ‘never buy version one of anything’ – especially if it’s from Apple. Lenovo’s X300 seems to be everything the MacBook Air isn’t – a fully feature PC with connectivity, both wired and wireless – galore, even including a DVD burner, although without the (official, anyway) ability to run Mac OS X. Reviews of the HTC Shift have started arriving too, and while this is a very interesting device that can run Windows Vista, it only has two hours of battery life and costs as much as the MacBook Air – instead of costing the same as the Asus Eee PC. Clearly, although we’re in 2008, we’re still at the very beginning of where modern technology can take us. Fast forward to, say, 2012 or so, and we’ll be laughing at the early, ‘primitive’ technologies that are today’s cutting edge MacBook Air, Lenovo X300 and HTC Shift represent. Heck, at the rate things are going, 2010 could well be the year of the super ultra thin portable computer that still packs it all, including a minimum of a 250GB flash SSD drive – without costing the Earth. So, what is the perfect PC? Is it what Rob Enderle thinks, or something else? Please read onto page 2. << First page <   1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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