Msi Breaks out the photocopiers

This looks more like an air clone/killer:

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev...history_state0=

or here:

http://www.cheaplaptops.org.uk/20090113/ca...-air/#more-5465

Looks really nice! 

"Apart from the connection bay and the different logo (which also glows on the side), the laptop is an almost perfect carbon copy of the Macbook Air."

By the same argument every laptop that is thin and 13" inch should be called an Mac Air clone. This machine doesn't even use the same chipset. It is plastic. The keyboard is different... Come on.

Yes. That makes us see at what insanely high margin apple sells its crappy hardware.

Crappy hardware? STFU n00b!

Crappy hardware? STFU n00b!

would you be happy to buy a porsche at porsche prices that had the same or very similar internals as a chevy malibu? plz uze teh no0box 0n yer neck. k thx.

MSI has announced the X340, a model similar to the X320, which instead of the atom-processor has a Core 2 Solo.

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=prodtmps...mp;prod_no=1770

would you be happy to buy a porsche at porsche prices that had the same or very similar internals as a chevy malibu? plz uze teh no0box 0n yer neck. k thx.

People happily pay the price of a Porsche for the Cayenne even though the inner workings are the same as in the VW Touareg, so: Yes, many people probably will.

People happily pay the price of a Porsche for the Cayenne even though the inner workings are the same as in the VW Touareg, so: Yes, many people probably will.

Which goes to show what absolute poseurs some people can be, don't you think?

If you had the choice between a free Touareg and a free Cayenne, which one would you take?

If you had the choice between a free Touareg and a free Cayenne, which one would you take?

Whichever was worth more to sell naturally, since you're giving them away. You might as well ask if I'd prefer to win a million bucks or alternatively, a hundred bucks. Answer is rather obvious.

But we were talking about buying a Porsche or VW, using our own money.

What your question above has to do with that I don't know. Stretching to try to make a point perhaps?

Whichever was worth more to sell naturally, since you're giving them away. You might as well ask if I'd prefer to win a million bucks or alternatively, a hundred bucks. Answer is rather obvious.

 

But we were talking about buying a Porsche or VW, using our own money.

 

What your question above has to do with that I don't know. Stretching to try to make a point perhaps?

Why did I know that this answer would come? This was a hypothetical question, so leave the selling part away. The free giveaway comes with the price of you using the car until it is not worth anything anymore. You are also not allowed to rent is, sell it as spare parts or whatever other excuse you might have to not answer: What do you prefer to have in your garage if it's basically the same car: A VW or a Porsche?

And before you say you don't like SUVs: These hypothetical ones run on water, need Orange juice instead of oil and give you free backrubs if you hug a tree. Plus, you can park them better than a smartcar, they are stronger than a Shelby GT500 and so forth...

Why did I know that this answer would come? This was a hypothetical question, so leave the selling part away. The free giveaway comes with the price of you using the car until it is not worth anything anymore. You are also not allowed to rent is, sell it as spare parts or whatever other excuse you might have to not answer: What do you prefer to have in your garage if it's basically the same car: A VW or a Porsche?

 

And before you say you don't like SUVs: These hypothetical ones run on water, need Orange juice instead of oil and give you free backrubs if you hug a tree. Plus, you can park them better than a smartcar, they are stronger than a Shelby GT500 and so forth...

"leave the selling part away"

Why? The whole point is that some people willingly pay far more for something because it has some pretentious logo stuck on it. Get that? Pay for it. Your hypothetical list of rules has nothing whatsoever to do with the issue, which is that poseurs are happy to pay a premium for the sake of a badge; could be a car, underwear, SUV, watch, shoe, belt, PC... whatever.

All you've succeeded in demonstrating is that even when something has no inherent value at all, you still believe that a particular logo on it makes it worth more. That is simply brand snobbery.

In answer to your fantasy above, there's no way of choosing unless you know which vehicle best suits your actual needs, but since you're going to make them less and less differentiated with every passing post until there's only the logo left, the response is obviously that "it doesn't matter which one you choose". Except for the badge, they're the same thing.

So, a coin flip will do the job.

That's my answer.

If you wish to talk about the prices of various machines please start a new thread.