The Korean company Haseenote's JIVE W205R laptop is better than a MacBook in many ways:

• cheap: It's only $1000 (830 euro) (MacBook: $1100)
• light: 1200 g (2.7 pounds) (MacBook: 2360 g, 5.2 pounds)
• DVD burner (MacBook: DVD-ROM)
• 1 GB RAM (MacBook: 0.5 GB)
• 80 GB SATA disc (MacBook: 60GB)
• 12-inch screen with 1280 x 800 pixels (MacBook: 13 inches)
• 1.66GHz Core Duo T2050 cpu (MacBook: 1.83GHz)
• video card: ATI Radeon Xpress 200M with 64MB of VRAM (MacBoo: shared memory)

The MacBook has (arguably) better software, a VGA video camera, a glossier screen. But if you prefer Windows, this JIVE is cheaper and much lighter weight.

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