> Honest question: why is it worth the premium - and loss of user customization - to be so thin? Well, we're talking about Air style laptops here. Extreme port

> Honest question: why is it worth the premium - and loss of user customization - to be so thin? Well, we're talking about Air style laptops here. Extreme portability is kind of the requirement, and thin helps. I also see the loss of "user customization" as a good thing, I want the laptop to be "fire and forget", like those distraction free writing environment. > Unibody: Debatable if that is even a good thing. I searched in vain for studies that show a unibody laptop is sturdier or more durable; do you know of any? No, but I've owned many plastic laptops --including Toshiba's and Apple's-- and a few metal ones, and it feels obviously sturdier at hand. Remove points of failure, such as joints, is a good thing. I had many laptops "break", or slightly open, at the joints between sides, something that cannot happen in a MBP. > Shorter battery life I'm not sure about this. Apple tends to report expected battery life damn accurately, while other companies are off by 20-30% or even more (based on tons of reviews I've read). Could this be the case here? > -Less RAM (4GB versus 6) The specs on the cnet page say 4 GB, ?? > -No dvd drive I think this falls in the "no floppy disk" category though.