Originally Posted by
tjspiel
Nice and light.
Lots of drawbacks.
My work supplied Dell is on its last legs and I've been bringing my personal 12" powerbook into work for the last year now so I'm pretty sure I could get one. For my purposes, it would probably work OK. The biggest drawbacks would be the small hard drive and lack of a user replaceable battery. Apple will replace the battery for $130 but it takes 5 days. Five days is unacceptable for a business computer.
Let's see -- underpowered, limited upgradeability, takes 5 days to change the battery (what's the deal with that -- we can get just about any internal component in our servers or desktop fixed in one?), and all yours for $1800?
What a ripoff. If you want to lighten your load, tell your boss to buy two normal priced laptops. If they'll spring for that overpriced POS that has nothing to recommend it other than size and looks, it shouldn't be too hard to convince them to buy two machines since that would ultimately be a more flexible arrangement. Keep one at home and one at work. You can use the network or a flash drive to move your work around. No need to lug the computer on a bike at all....