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I waited a long time for Sony, Dell, or Toshiba to compete with the Macbook Air. Finally, they did and even with Sandy Bridge. Unfortunately, every single one of them settled for shitty 1360x760 displays forcing me to get an Air.

The Air has been perfect, though installing ubuntu without a superdrive or external cdrom was a preposterous nightmare.

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You should've waited a bit longer for Samsung's Series 9 (if you went for the high-end Air)

I did wait for the Series 9, but it had 1366x768 :(

Hilariously, Sony omits this tidbit on their own page. See it here: http://techdraginfo.blogspot.com/2011/01/samsung-9-series-ul...

Is the difference in resolution that discernible? (Serious question btw)

Ya, huge difference imo. Macbook Air has a decent 1440x900, which amounts to an extra 17% vertical increase.

and 23.5% increase in "pixel area".

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