Another nail in the coffin of PC by APPL

An old post lying in my draftsbsince 2011. Interesting to see many PC manufactures try to do this.

Since the iPhone came out, I have been telling my friends to buy APPL. Even though it is now the most valuable company, i think it is still undervalued.

Take for example, its new below radar innovation of the $999 MacBook Air. It has managed to invent a whole new category by itself which will give the Windows PC even more night-mares.

The problem here is just not Microsoft but Windows hardware manufacturers also. The hardware is seems is always inspiring to be a Mac but never ever getting there. On top of it, due to cut-throat market, it keeps killing innovative devices as it just does not getting volumes and instead keeps makes cheap mass scale crappy ones.

I have a Dell XPS-13 which has a awesome form factor. But none of the latest machines comes close to it and most look like another brick in the wall. Almost all affordable PC are 14-15'' clunky blocks with low battery life. To start with can the PC manufacturers make the laptop actually portable.

My suggestions
1. Make it slimmer. Loose the DVD drive.
2. Make it portable. Add kick ass battery
3. Make it faster. 3 years since SD drives came, I do not see any major effort by PC manufactures to make it a standard.

Maybe it is time for MSFT to actually have a hardware division of its own or alternatively tie up with Samsung/Asus to truly make break-thru machines.

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