Some are very Linuxey. My Acer netbook is fast enough for me and, for the price of an MBA, I could buy 4 of them. It's been reported Toshibas and Sony's have some issues. The i5-based Dell I got issued at work also works very well and seems to be built like a tank.
If you want Windows, well... There are small computers, some of them well built that can run Windows at Windows functionality levels.
It means they're commodity hardware. They're made of plastic. They're poorly designed, cheaply made, and the general goal is to be almost as good as a MacBook Air.
It means they're commodity hardware. They're made of plastic. They're poorly designed, cheaply made
And yet they're much better to run anything that isn't Mac OS X. They allow you to boot Linux or Windows from USB. They don't disable AHCI just because and force you to apply a sleep-breaking MBR hack if you wanted to use it. An Apple laptop is the worst possible laptop you could get if you wanted to run Windows. Trust me, I have one and I really hate it. This is the last Apple laptop I'm ever going to own.
If all other laptops are too Windowsey, then give me a Windowsey laptop over an Apple one any day.
edit: awww, seems like I hurt the delicate sentiments of a poor widdle Apple fanboy.
