 DogfatherPremium
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Laguna Hills, CA | reply to dadkins
Re: Growing Pains Wafer thin machines will never "take off" as in be mainstream. They're purposely designed for the niche Road-Warrior market. I'm one of those travelers who need and use ultra thin, light and powerful sub-notebooks.
The market is there and sub-notebooks are a significant enough class to warrant entry by Apple. |
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| It is not a real traveler laptop.
Its the size of a normal laptop, but thin. That means it requires a bulky bag just like any thicker laptop, especially when you have to haul around an external drive.
A dell 700m is alot more portable than the macbook air.
It is 12.1", has a 6 hour battery, and has a dvd-rw.
I could not imagine a traveler laptop without a dvd drive.
Someone at apple should lose their job.
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| dell 700m is heavier, feels cheap, battery is a external pack type that hangs off back, battery will not last 6 hours.. maybe 3-4 and much less watching a movie. It has a smaller screen, very small keyboard without any type of media buttons. and the legendary dell support sarcasm intended.
Ohh... and all that for almost the same price. |
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| Yes the Dell 700m is a little over a pound heavier, but it also has wifi, dvd-rw, 2 usb, 1 firewire, 1 vga, 1 pcmcia, 1 sd reader, sound, ethernet, and dialup.
It does not feel cheap, I am using it right now. It is a solid laptop.
The screen is only 1 inch smaller, but that makes for a smaller profile which takes up a lot less space on a desk.
When I first got the laptop the battery lasted almost 8 hours, but now its down to a little over 6 hours. Again I know this because I use it every day.
The keyboard is not very small, I like using it over a normal sized keyboard. You would never run into a situation where you accidently push two keys because it is big enough.
Media buttons??? I never met someone that actually uses those useless buttons above your F keys.
In two years I have never had to call Dell support, why would you??? This laptop had been beaten to hell and its still intact. The Dell 700m is very very durable.
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| cnet tested YOUR "6hr battery" laptop in the Dell 700m
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Battery life of Dell Inspiron 700m
Unlike its excellent mobile performance, the Dell Inspiron 700m's battery life leaves much to be desired, particularly for a system designed with mobility in mind. In our tests, the Inspiron 700m lasted about two and a half hours--46 percent less than the Gateway M275XL and 57 percent less than the HP Compaq nc6000. The Inspiron 700m's lackluster performance is due to its meager 14.8V, 2,200mAh (33WHr) battery
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I dumped the 700m and use an iBook G4 a lot better battery life than any dell also |
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Crofton, MD | The 700m 6 hour Battery is 65WHr battery not the one from the review you posted. |
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Well I am using the Dell 700m right now.
It says 56% left, 3:22 Hours left.
That review is wrong, it definately lasts longer than 6 hours. 2 years ago it lasted almost 8 hours.
You loose.
The battery that I am using is still original, I bought this laptop for $950 two years ago.
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