[canuck brian]

Originally Posted by darren

Well, you were countering my points with examples from your own experience, so it seemed to me that you were stating how the machine didn't live up to your expectations.

And the examples you stated weren't really of a "business" user. Most "business" people don't have to jack into Cisco routers on a daily basis. They run their email, use the Web and use Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

For business purposes, this machine is pretty much perfect. For an IT professional? Not so much.

And i don't think Apple has even remotely suggested that this is a machine for art/design/music/media, so it's not "flawed" for those purposes... it was never designed for that kind of use to begin with.

That's definitely more than fair. Sorry if I came off all ...jerkish. When I originally saw it mockups before the Keynote, I was really interested, but the specifications put it right out of the running. Apple definitely has not suggested to use it for what I indicated, but I applied it to myself as a potential user. As I said, Apple is taking a lot of flak for this notebook for various reasons (mostly undeserved) which they're probably going to work out in proceding versions of this. I'll be waiting for next year with good expectations. I still think the sealed battery is a bad idea as you can't bring multiple batteries on long flights (big flaw for travelling business peeps). I have two for my iBook and it was a godsend on my flight to and from Amsterdam.

ukfswmart - I didn't point them out as a fault of the manufacturer, I responded to points made by another user. Ok the battery I still consider a flaw, but that's besides the point. I think you also misread me on something. I actually said "it's not the most ideal system for it" meaning...it's not the most ideal system for it. It would have been nice to have a firewire port to use with a small Firebox (not the full 1U Firepod). A superlight portable studio would have been pretty sweet and might have actually hooked me as a potential customer.