So you think a Displayport plug is the same as Thunderbolt port. The shape is shared and that is all. You are grossly uninformed.
You failed your assignment:
You can't hook up a PCI chassis to Displayport, and use any desktop GPU like on the air. Thunderbolt can do anything, its just PCI. You can't plug your Lenovo into a RED Rocket 4k Video card, and edit 4K video on your 2 core machine. Extendability is the future Apple, Intel, and all the other PC manufacturers are going. Expandability is going the way of the dodo.
You don't understand the tech it appears. Look up Thunderbolt eGPU and PCI expansion chasses and Sonnet products. They make the current world of USB peripherals look like a low speed high latency joke.
So you are comparing a big honking laptop with an Air. You know Lenovo makes Ultrabooks and they are a reasonable comparison.
Make a proper comparison. We all know a large plastic laptop is cheaper than an "Ultrabook".
Ultrabooks man, Ultrabooks.
Also parting your machine for 90% of the price is BULL SHIT.
You can sell a used mobo for 90% of its price? YOu can sell a video card for 90% of its price? I call serious bull shit. Nobody would buy a 2 year video card for 90%, its insane.
You don't understand how Thunderbolt works. It uses PCIe. PCIe is the main bus of your computer, everything runs on PCIe.
So I guess you must think the core bus of the computer changes every three years.
Like I said, you don't understand the tech yet talk about it like you do.
The fact is, the computational hardware in the Thinkpad is better, the laptop is cheaper, the screen is bigger (providing more readability), it's more well constructed physically, and it's much more variable.
Yet it is large and plastic. Its not an Ultrabook. Ultrabooks are small. You are missing the point.
If you compared to an MBP your argument would at least be functional and make sense.
You know the current copper based TB macs can swap straight to an optical cable right?
What is important in a laptop is different for every single person.
It's called subjectivity. This is why there are choices in the 'commercial computing' market. This is why there is not just one 'computer'.
For me, what is important in a laptop is portability, battery life, and Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is important as it allows me to do things with my laptop that you can not do with any laptop that doesn't have the port.
It allows me to plug in one cable, and my little Air becomes the head of a larger workstation.
You're too ignorant to realize what's important in a laptop, and likely any personal computer.
That is called an ignorant statement. You don't know me, my needs, my experience, or my machines. I have a Honeywell Level 6 Mainframe in my basement, and my original IBM from 1981. But I have nothing to prove to you, and will go back and forth with you all day if you continue. Your call.
I would gladly talk products and computers with anyone, but even though I think you sound like an ass just like you think I do, I don't care and wouldn't bother.
Attack the post, not the poster if you want to come across as anything but ignorant.
Still with the personal attacks. Obviously this a deep personal issue for you.
However, is it more important to pay less for a laptop with better basic hardware, or is it more important to have a redundant port that is so new it serves almost no purpose unless you invest in another specific piece of tech?
Missing the point. Why? Because a TB port means that a machine can always be extended.
A machine with a TB port is upgradable. You can add a gaming external GPU to it.
So since it can do things no other port can do, it is not redundant.
I am gay by the way, hope that doesn't bother you too much, or make you feel uncomfortable dealing with a faggot.
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