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Air title legality
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i think the whole discussion about thinnest is silly but i am curious how you came up with 70%. how do you know what % of the air is .16" vs what % is .76", especially with the taper?
i would have to disagree. Best when refering to lager could mean any number of things the same as a cleaner. it could be taste, or lightness, calorific count, how gassy it is etc. Unless you can prove it, you cant say it in the UK, but i know it is different elsewhere.
i would agree with your statement about the air, however what a reasonable person would think is not in question, its what the advertisers say that they can get away with. Apple really could say "the worlds thinnest notebook" and in teeny tiny text say "on average". most people wouldnt notice the text, but they coulsnt say it wasnt there. the only morals anyone has when trying to sell a product are those enforced upon them through the rule book.
I have to agree with n0de though and just say the Adamo is ugly. not even in comparison, just in its own right.
If you put this way, then the Air has lost the "thinnest notebook" title long time ago. Voodoo's Envy 133 which came out about a year ago is 0.7 inches thick. Which overall is thinner than the Airs thickest point. I know, the Macbook Air still "looks" thinner because of the cool sharpening design trick on the edges, though it's not.
"Looks" and "is" are completely different and mildly irrelevant to the legal point entailed in this discussion.
Just look at some celebrities.
Well the MBA at it's thinnest point is thinner than this machine at it's thinnest.
What does thinnest really mean?
Is it the notebook with the overall thinnest measurements?
Or is it the one that has the thinnest part?
Or is the one that is thin and occupies the least volume?
Before deciding who wins the thinnest debate, I think criteria need to be established as to what thin means.
And who, exactly, will be establishing the definition of "thinnest" and why should I (or Apple, or Dell or anyone else) listen to them or subscribe to their ideas?
Basically, these questions are why there is no real legal issue here.
I've just thought of a good analogy.
Contrast ratios.
The ambiguity of where to measure thickness of these computers is the same as television manufacturers touting 1,000,000:1 contrast ratios on their screens... because there is no standardized measuring unit, they can call one unit whatever the crap they want to call it and measure the difference between the darkest black and the brightest white.
Contrast ratios.
The ambiguity of where to measure thickness of these computers is the same as television manufacturers touting 1,000,000:1 contrast ratios on their screens... because there is no standardized measuring unit, they can call one unit whatever the crap they want to call it and measure the difference between the darkest black and the brightest white.
MBA is thinnest. Thinner than the Dell. Period. One thing I don't understand is why anyone would bother with the Adamo a.k.a Garbage because the MBA is CHEAPER, SEXIER, and has a much better processor, memory, display, battery life, webcam, microphone, keyboard, multi touch trackpad, etc. than the Adamo. Pretty much everything about the MBA is better than the Adamo. Except that the Adamo excels in a few areas, namely sucky battery life, ugly design, cheap display, extremely weak processor, and expensive. Oh, and it's more expensive that the MBA with weaker/lesser features or lacking features.
I am not certain that I understand the obsession with thinness. If the laptop were lighter somehow, that would be a feature I would appreciate. The thinness, it doesn't do much for me.
I forgot to say in my earlier post that the MBA is lighter with better features. 3 lbs. of MBA or 4 lbs. of garbage (Adamo). I'd rather have a few less ports than sacrifice everything else on a computer (CPU, GPU, memory, display, etc).
From those cnet pictures the Adamo looks terrible from far away. Nothing about it stands out at a distance. At least with the Air when you open it up people recognize it's distinctive design even from across the room. Open up the Adamo and it pretty much looks like every other PC notebook from a distance.
How do you measure "world's thinnest" is it at the thinnest point on the laptop? The thickest? Average thinness?
Even somethings thinness can be subjective.
People don't care what you *think* about the Adamo. At least I don't. Just a question, do you own one to give yourself the right to judge that product? It's expensive? No one said it's not, in fact, I agree on that. It's cheap and has a cheap display? FYI its chassis is made out of Aluminum and the display is LED backlite 16:9 HD screen which is also covered with glass. Sucky battery life? Did you benchmark it? I am sure with an SSD, low powered CPU, and a WLED display it will have a great battery life. FYI the Adamo is able to have a better battery life than the Air because it has a slightly bigger battery and comes with the 128 SSD as a standard. The its CPU is less powerful than the Air, but less power consuming. So, it's not all that bad. It also has more ports, that's a plus for people who care about ports (I don't). Now to the thin part. The Macbook Air *looks* thinner, but it's not. The Air is 0.76 inches at its thickest point while the Adamo is 0.65 inches. The reason the Air looks as thin as a paper because it gets sharper at the sides which is the part where people look at (this is where it gets 0.16 inches thick). The thick part in the Air is in the middle of its body which you can't see. It's a nice design trick by Apple. But overall, the Adamo is thinner. BTW, I am a Macbook Air owner and I love it!