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Have you ever thrown out a gadget unintentionally? I havn’t had the misfortune of this yet, but I’m sure I will one day.

Steven Levvy, the technology journalist for Newsweek had almost this exact problem this week. He recently reviewed the MacBook Air, and liked it so much that he decided to keep it. After a few weeks of having it, his laptop vanished.

He called Apple, thinking it had been stolen, and reportedly, they laughed at him. Then came searching, and finally he decided that it had been thrown out with the Sunday Papers, by his “less clutter tolerant” wife,

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.

Ars Technica thinks that his biggest mistake may not have been letting it vanish in the first place, but allowing himself to name his wife as a suspect.

That’s great. While it is a pretty dumb mistake (remember, papers are normally flexible, a laptop isn’t ;) ), it’s probably not the last.

The best bit is that Newsweek is going to stump up to replace it, apparently ;)

I got the email from Apple about the MacBook Air Today, and, being interested, I went and had a look. I like the tiny-ness, but the price is staggering, considering it’s specifications, I know it’s a Mac, but still :P

What actually interested me was the technology they’ve crammed in there, I mean they have all three wireless types (B,G,N) supported, a fully featured keyboard, proper trackpad, decent processor, decent hard drive, and various other bits, which makes the size it sits at a pretty amazing acheivement, the hard drive alone on my pc is thicker than the whole laptop there, so it looks like some serious work has been spent on it :P

I’d wait until I’ve seen some reviews before buying / considering it myself, I love Macs , but I’ve not been able to afford them because of their collossal price tags, maybe I’ll actually have to get off my backside and earn one :P.

What I originally asked, however, was whether it was worth it. To be honest, unless it’s for someone who is never in the same place, I can’t see many advantages of it over the normal Macbook Pro, which I really like; unless you pride yourself in having the smallest of everything :P
You can find the pro @ http://www.apple.com/macbookair