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> Apple dropped the CD drive, people complained. No CD drive (on laptops) became the standard. > Apple dropped full-size display connectors, people complained.
by c3833174 10y ago
> Apple dropped the CD drive, people complained. No CD drive (on laptops) became the standard.
> Apple dropped full-size display connectors, people complained. This, too, became the standard on laptops.
You need to step out of that Apple reality distortion field, not every laptop is an ultrabook.
- acdha 10y agoNext time you go to a coffee shop, airport or train station, etc. look at the laptops you see and count how many have an optical drive. Yes, some people do still have the older corporate IT bricks but even there the trend has clearly been to optimize for size and battery life. Display connectors are a bit of a confound since e.g. an HDMI connector is already a huge improvement over a VGA/DVI port but are clearly on a similar trajectory.
- riprowan 10y agoYeah but it isn't like Apple invented the idea of the ultrabook.
- bryanlarsen 10y agoThe ultrabook was almost entirely a reaction to the MacBook Air. Read initial press reports about the ultrabook, they make that obvious. Like http://www.pcworld.com/article/246691/ultrabooks_laptops_as_light_as_air.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/246691/ultrabooks_laptops_as_...
- Tiksi 10y agoThe MacBook Air was almost entirely a reaction to the eeePC. Probably not really, but just as much as ultrabooks were to the macbook air.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoYes, the MacBook Air was a reaction to netbooks. But it was a different category of device, a high-end ultraportable. The same category of device that Ultrabooks fit into.
- acdha 10y agoI don't see anyone making that claim. All of the major players experimented with small laptops – just as there were small PowerBooks, there were small ThinkPads, Vaios, etc. going back to the 1980s. – but for a long time the engineering tradeoffs were too extreme.