You can still buy a laptop for a lot less than $999, though, and that's where other people will come out of the woodwork to show you loud, clumsy looking Acer a

You can still buy a laptop for a lot less than $999, though, and that's where other people will come out of the woodwork to show you loud, clumsy looking Acer and HP machines. Yup, that's why I specifically mentioned the Air vs. Ultrabooks, a $399 Acer isn't in the same class.