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MacBook Air Disappears Into, Well, Thin Air
by , 2:55 PM EDT, March 11th, 2008
Steven Levy, technology columnist for Newsweek, lost his new MacBook Air. One theory is that it got mixed in with the Sunday paper and his wife threw it out.
"When something is thin enough to fit into an envelope, light enough to sit on your lap for a couple of hours without discomfort and so compact that it doesn't even bulge in an airline seat-back pocket, wouldn't it make sense that one could lose track of such a thing? Even if it is a computer?" Mr. Levy wrote.
Mr. Levy lives in a New York city apartment where, with all the books, magazine, and some Sunday clutter, it can be all too easy to misplace a computer that ranges from 0.76 to 0.16 inches thick.
It could have been stolen. However, his charger was still in his living room suggesting that he'd used the MacBook over the weekend. Conclusion: it was safe at home, then disappeared.
"So what happened?: Mr. Levy wrote. "... I have developed a theory that I first viewed as remote, but now believe explains the fate of my Air. On Sundays in my apartment, the coffee table where the Air sat becomes the final resting place for the bulky New York Times. It is not unusual for other magazines, and newspapers from previous days, to accumulate there as well.
"My wife, 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 from our apartment, dumping the pile into a plastic recycling bin. ... Could it be that somewhere in the stack was a Macintosh computer so thin that its manufacturer brags it could fit inside an envelope? I believe so.
"As humiliating as it sounds, let me repeat: the MacBook Air is so thin that it got tossed out with the newspapers," Mr. Levy admitted.
Observer Comments
Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:45 pm Subject: Nothing funny about it
Did I hurt little Bosco's feelings? I shouldn't have told you his name, I'm sure you had no idea what it was prior to that post...and still you managed to misspell it. Nice.
Reading your little jokes is roughly equivalent to watching a short bald man orally pleasure another Man's ass-region, so I can see where it would occur to you to make that little jibe. Still pretty lame. I told you to come back when you had something interesting, as it is you make Fake Steve Ballmer look like a laugh riot on his worst day.
Now that I've fed Bosco his daily Troll Food (gotta keep em strong!), I'll comment on the article as I intended to originally...
I was thinking about this today, how if I got an Air I'd want some type of clear acryllic shellcase for it, yes defeating the "coolness" of being thin, but otherwise something like this could happen to anyone who leaves their computer out of its bag on a regular basis.
Not that I'm in the market for one personally, I don't think I'm ever getting another Laptop. My next mobile device with be a Rev2 or later iPhone, or similar.
I am surprised to see such hate from an Obama supporter. Stupidity, yes, but hate is a new one. But look, DaiMac, if John Hodgman is your egg donor dad, there's nothing really wrong with that. You should embrace it. Most of the rest of us were conceived the old fashioned way. You're actually pretty special!
Hate implies importance Bosco-boy. I hate George Bush, because he actually holds an important position and his rampant idiocy can affect my actual life and livelihood.
You, on the other hand, are completely without importance. So it would be a complete misnomer to say that I hate you. You annoy me the way a blister might, at best.
Oh and why am I replying to you, 5 days later? No reason, except that I KNOW you'll be checking back to read it.
And that makes me giggle.
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