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For any of the Apple adverse, Samsung has already been showing off their 12.2" notebook at CES [0,1]. Dell also has an interesting small-bezel XPS 13 starting a

For any of the Apple adverse, Samsung has already been showing off their 12.2" notebook at CES [0,1]. Dell also has an interesting small-bezel XPS 13 starting at $800, but I'm sure that will end up a bit thicker than the MBA 12" [2]. ✓ Fanless. ✓ 700 nit low-glare 2560×1600 display. ✓ Ports (μHDMI and SD reader is better than nothing). ✓ Apple-esque price tag. [0]: http://www.samsung.com/us/news/24347 http://www.samsung.com/us/news/24347 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2vYob7rzQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub2vYob7rzQ (Brad Linder's hands on) [2]: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/6/7501385/dell-xps-13-2015-edition-announced-at-ces-2015 http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/6/7501385/dell-xps-13-2015-ed...

SeanLuke 12y ago
Does not run OS X.
- danw3 12y ago
  Which is the reason you buy an Apple product in the first place.
  - xasos 12y ago
    The hardware, albeit expensive, is pretty nice as well.
    - exprL 12y ago
      At times. From cracking plastic to less-than-stellar thermal performance with aluminium, MacBooks are just about as hit-and-miss as are any other laptops.
  - barrkel 12y ago
    I mostly run Windows on my MBA, FWIW. Dealing with yet another *nix variant beyond Linux and Cygwin is not high on my priority list.
gambiting 12y ago
>>2560×1600 display. What is Samsung doing to make sure that this resolution is usable at this size?
- exprL 12y ago
  They are probably expecting their OS of choice (that is, Windows) to do it's job, since it is marketed as being usable on such combination. For the most part and by itself it probably is, but many desktop applications still have problems, or so I've heard to this date. 2560×1600 is not a bad choice, however, since at 200 % scaling it has 1280×800 logical pixels, which is perfectly normal for such a monitor. If only Windows could reliably tell which applications do NOT support higher DPI displays even though they say they do, they could be just doubled in size and still be perfectly usable, if a bit blurry (you don't get aliasing effects, though). I guess Microsoft'll just have to make yet another API for DPI-awareness to catch the rest of the offenders.

SeanLuke 12y ago

Does not run OS X.

danw3 12y ago
Which is the reason you buy an Apple product in the first place.
- xasos 12y ago
  The hardware, albeit expensive, is pretty nice as well.
  - exprL 12y ago
    At times. From cracking plastic to less-than-stellar thermal performance with aluminium, MacBooks are just about as hit-and-miss as are any other laptops.
- barrkel 12y ago
  I mostly run Windows on my MBA, FWIW. Dealing with yet another *nix variant beyond Linux and Cygwin is not high on my priority list.

gambiting 12y ago

>>2560×1600 display. What is Samsung doing to make sure that this resolution is usable at this size?

exprL 12y ago
They are probably expecting their OS of choice (that is, Windows) to do it's job, since it is marketed as being usable on such combination. For the most part and by itself it probably is, but many desktop applications still have problems, or so I've heard to this date. 2560×1600 is not a bad choice, however, since at 200 % scaling it has 1280×800 logical pixels, which is perfectly normal for such a monitor. If only Windows could reliably tell which applications do NOT support higher DPI displays even though they say they do, they could be just doubled in size and still be perfectly usable, if a bit blurry (you don't get aliasing effects, though). I guess Microsoft'll just have to make yet another API for DPI-awareness to catch the rest of the offenders.