A tip of the hat goes to veteran tech journalist Dan Farber of C-Net, whose blog entry notes a spoof of Apple's very nice MacBook Air advertisement. Noting some of the technical limitations of the MacBook Air, such as its lack of a built-in optical media drive, Lenovo says their X300 ultra-thin is a better deal — albeit one whose list price is about $1,200 more than the MacBook Air.

What Lenovo won't trumpet is that for the $3,000 you spend with them, you're still getting a notebook running a Microsoft Windows operating system. That's not terrible, but Mac enthusiasts will turn up their nose at such a notion.

Also missing from the Lenovo parody — which is a bit clever — is a song as nice as Yael Naim's "New Soul" which accompanied the MacBook Air ad and which, by clicking on the link embedded in the song title, you can watch for free via YouTube.

— Mark Kellner, The Washington Times