Derailed Thoughts

Should your path ever cross with a MacBook Air owner, their nose held high in the air (free from the weight of the world’s lowly laptops), here are a few tips on how to escape the encounter with your self-esteem intact.

• Pull your pug fugly old computer that your grandpa gave you out of your bag.  Look at it and smile, knowing that if anyone ever hands you a CD your computer can play it, unlike the Air.



• Ponder on the fact that if you ever would like to use a flash drive at the same time that you plug in your iPod, your computer’s extra USB ports will do the job happily (plus you won’t have to monkey with a little goofy flap on the side).
• Be content with the knowledge that your computer, overweight as it may seem next to the Air, could still outrun the Air’s undersized processor any day.
• That guy’s wallet weighs as little as his laptop does–$2500 is a lot of money to spend on shiny, overpriced technology.  Feel your back pocket.  That wallet feel heavier yet?  Good.

But then again… the Air fits in a manila folder!  Haven’t you always wanted to keep your computer in one of those?

That’s right!  The MacBook Air has a screen, a hard drive, and exactly one measly USB port with which to communicate with the outside world.  If you buy one, your financial and intellectual skills are positively rubbish.  So don’t feel bad if you come across a snooty Air owner–just smile at that rusty old computer of yours and tell it you love it.  Because you could have ten of them for the price of that guy’s computer.

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Addition March 13:

Step 1) Click here to see people on Twitter who have a MacBook Air.

Step 2) Bask in your financial security.