14 DAY TRIAL // Whatever the standards are for thinness, the MacBook Air is right on the top. Everyone knows this and it seems that the thinner and lighter a device is, the better it sells. People love thin! That's a fact. But at least one person out there may very well hate the Air for being so thin. Why? 'Cause it got thrown away with the newspapers, that's why?
"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," (former) MacBook Air owner Steven Levy writes.
Everyone can see where this is going, as valleywag.com themselves write (not that the headline and introduction didn't already give it away), but indulge us, read on!
"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. Sometimes the whole mess gets so nasty that I even perform this task myself. 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. (For the record, my wife does not subscribe to this theory.) As humiliating as it sounds, let me repeat: the MacBook Air is so thin that it got tossed out with the newspapers."
The Newsweek post doesn't reveal at any point that the tossed-Air was later found, while Levy doesn't rule out the possibility that his laptop was stolen, or still hanging around the house, "jammed into an obscure crevice."
For the Air's sake, let's hope that's the case. That wasn't the SSD model by any chance, was it Levy?