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Old 02-27-2013, 01:59 PM   #108
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Originally Posted by Graham View Post
There are plenty of people, I'm sure, who are using ultrabooks, and particularly MacBook Airs, which do appeal to bloggers and writers, for whom the set of capabilities here isn't just 'good enough', it's 'good'.
This is where we disagree.

The Windows users I know are particularly attached to Office and Steam, and reject other platforms as a result. Incidentally, this group tends to be quite budget-conscious and values specs and raw power over less tangible elements like design.

The Mac users I know are devotees of a vast range of software (OmniGroup, Reeder, Fantastical, Coda, 1Password, MarsEdit, Transmit, Scrivener, etc.) that they are unwilling to renounce.

I don't see either group giving those up for Chrome OS, which they would consider to be trading down, unless they got something major in return. A $300 computer is a bargain that makes sense. I maintain that $1,300 is way beyond most people's notion of fair value.

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