[commandar]

It really is a ripe market.

The MBA is nice and all, but has an absolutely godawful screen compared to everything else in its price segment, especially if you bump up above base specs.

PC laptops with decent displays don't seem to exist below around the $900-1000 mark currently. I don't need an i7 in a notebook, but shopping around, it's been the only way for me to get something with the SSD and 8GB of RAM that I do need.

[programminggeek]

Yeah, what's amazing is Chromebooks are WAY nicer machines at the $200-300 price range than the comparable Windows PC. It's just so bizarre the choices Windows PC makers make that are just junk.

It seems that to get a SSD in a Windows laptop, I need to either spend $1,000 or buy a decently spec'ed $500-700 laptop, and drop in my own SSD for $100.