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Offline krissel

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MacBook Air too thin?
« on: March 16, 2008, 01:15:45 AM »
Would you believe...?  rolleyes.gif

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The selling point for Apple's MacBook Air is the laptop's lightness and thinness. But be careful, warns Steven Levy, a technology columnist at Newsweek, the Air is so light and so thin that you can easily lose it.

Mr. Levy should know, because he lost his. After tearing his apartment apart and considering that the laptop might have been stolen, he remembered leaving it on the coffee table, where newspapers and magazines tend to pile up. “My wife,” he wrote, “whose clutter tolerance is well below my own, sometimes will swoop in and hastily gather the pulp in a huge stack, going directly to the trash-compactor room just down the hall.”

As far as Mr. Levy can tell, that’s where his laptop ended up.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/15/business...p;partner=MYWAY


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MacBook Air too thin?
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2008, 10:34:24 AM »
And what a sinking feeling he must have had when he realized where it had probably gone.... sad.gif

That is one of the problems with everything getting smaller - it's become very easy to lose Secure Digital memory cards, Compact Flash cards, USB thumb drives, iPods (the Shuffle and the Nano are both pretty tiny)...you have to wonder how many of those have also landed in the garbage by mistake.
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MacBook Air too thin?
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2008, 08:44:08 PM »
Too thin? Naw!
My wife says that about me. I asked my doctor. He says, "...never too rich, never to thin". thumbup.gif
Ya gotta applaud those bunnies for sacrificing their hearing just so some guy in Cupertino can have better TV reception.

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MacBook Air too thin?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2008, 03:41:14 AM »
A nice series of cartoons about the Macbook Air on Userfriendly


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