Columnist’s MacBook Air Meets Its Demise In Trash Compactor
Gearlog.com - Keys, scarves, wallets–these are all common things to lose track of, but a $1,800 MacBook Air? Surely you would go to great lengths to keep tabs on such an investment.
Newsweek columnist Steven Levy was not so diligent. When his ultra-thin laptop recently disappeared, he combed his apartment, retraced his steps, and put in a call to an amused Apple representative (”one of them couldn’t stop laughing”). His effort proved fruitless, however, and he finally deduced that he had accidentally thrown out the pricey notebook with a bunch of old newspapers headed for the recycler.
Yes, it appears that the MacBook Air fits just as easily into a trash compactor as it does a manila envelope.
“As humiliating as it sounds, let me repeat: the MacBook Air is so thin that it got tossed out with the newspapers,” Levy wrote.
Not to worry, Newsweek has promised to fork over $1,800 for the loss.
completed DVT sampling for the B3 stepping Phenom processors, and related triple-core and quad-core parts are expected to appear in the channel in April, AMD stated at a recent media event in Taipei, adding that its 45nm quad-core processors, Shanghai for servers and Deneb for desktops, are both on schedule to launch in the second half of 2008.
AMD’s 45nm processors have already entered EVT testing, according to sources at motherboard makers, who added they expect to receive samples by August or September.
AMD is planning to launch a notebook processor family codenamed Swift in the second half of 2009. The processors will come in two versions – dual-core Black Swift and single-core White Swift – both will incorporate a graphics processor. Swift and its companion chipset will form the Shrike platform and will support DDR3 memory, noted sources at notebook makers.
Nvidia had no comment regarding AMD’s confidence in claiming a 50% graphics market share.
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