Spooof says:

I used IBM ThinkPads exclusively for about six years and they were great. Now I am forced to use a dell at work, but I am an Apple fan boy and use a Macbook Pro for personal.

I would never buy an Air. They are missing too much capability. If you are looking for a cute toy to flash around I guess they have a purpose. Otherwise how would you ever get any work done on one of those things?

ZZ says:

Having experienced several of them at my client company, I’d say they both are good. The MacBook Airs are mainly used by sales/marketing and CEO, ThinkPads by engineering guys who strap it in different vehicles for collecting test data.

Missing 2 USB connectors from AirBook, is not a big deal, the same with DVD as long as AB is not your only computer. CD’s and DVD’s are very rarely used, I saw the external MBA DVD drive still on the shelf, never used.

The biggest problem with X300 is that it wont run OS X, nobody seems to know why. There are company rules that prohibit some files to be on PCs, just in case they get stolen or hacked. Windows is definitely the weakest point in otherwise useful machine.Tell u why…

One day a guy from sales had visited a client, who immediately had told him: “Please plug in to our network and access our company site for the latest info”. Then something had happened, some kind of Trojan or whatever was autoloaded in his computer and they scanned his laptop. This was later discovered by IT guys, who had just given the sales guy a new laptop with their own spyware (data in/out, web sites accessed etc.)

To my knowledge all the data the sales guys need is on the net, the laptop had some engineering data and video. Anyway, the sales and marketing now has MBAs. The overal plan had been originally to buy more X300s, but since they are about 40% more expensive than MBA, they had figured that’s too much to pay for extra 2 USB ports. I also heard engineers complain X300 a bit slower on some apps but I haven’t noticed anything (using X300 almost everyday). MBA is cool but U have to get used to not to have the Floppy, I mean Optical drive.

Jesse Read says:

You know… I run OS X, and I would consider myself a “fanboy” but the fact of the matter is that I recognize and understand that OS X is *not* the safest OS out their, nor the browser.

Just because we choose OS X over Windows Products doesn’t mean XP is (complete) shit. I would venture to say that I feel OS X is more secure than XP, but I would also point out that Linux is by far the most secure!

Just look at that hacking competition. OS X, XP, and Ubuntu all stood up to direct attacks. OS X lost first via Safari (I don’t use Safari as often as I used to – go with OmniWeb or Firefox), XP (or was it Vista) was then knocked out… The ONLY “secure” OS was Ubuntu!

So just because we choose OS X over Windows, doesn’t mean that we all think OS X is high and mighty. If it weren’t for work programs that I need to have that run on either XP or OS X (I use VMWare Fusion) I’d probably run Ubuntu – I just like it. So would I buy the MBA before the Thinkpad? YES! If I weren’t committed to needing certain applications, would I buy the Lenovo and slap on Ubuntu! Ya, I probably would.

So really, just because we prefer OS X to Windows – doesn’t mean we sit here and think, “Wow, this is the best thing ever and it will always be that way… we have no reason to worry!”