Well, yes, actually! A unique breed of laptops. Just not a unique breed of .

In fact, in 2003--five years before Apple introduced the MacBook Air--Sony introduced another premium, super-thin laptop: The Vaio X505 (also known as the Vaio PCG-X505, or the "505 Extreme").

BOO-YAH! PRIOR ART! Yeah. Except the PCG-X505 or, not coincidentally, like any Ultrabook the Macalope's seen. Its "metallic body" is and it , as so many Ultrabooks do.

The PCG-X505 actually has an original design (if not a great one). Unfortunately for Pinola's point, it doesn't look like current Ultrabooks. Which mostly look like the MacBook Air. Because that's the reference platform.

Is this thing on? The Macalope said all this last week. Why don't people do the required reading?