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Originally Posted by Thank The Cheese  People who are attracted to the prettyness but don't care about specs will be put off by the price. |
I'd disagree strongly. There *is* a market for this thing, but its also a market that doesn't get put off by the price. This is a luxury product, without a doubt, and has the price tag to match, but the fact is people will pay that much for it. And the price is less than what *every* laptop cost just 10 years ago.
If people were put off buying things just because you could get something "pretty much as good, and a lot cheaper, just not as cool" then there'd be no Ferraris, no Rolexs, no Hasselblads. We'd all drive identical Hyundais and own the same cheap TV sets.
At present the market is fairly high-end. Executives, lawyers, accountants, journalists, photographers, CEOs; all of them will be looking at the Macbook Air. It won't be as universally adopted as the iPod, but it'll still sell plenty of units.