macbook air

The Trend
Ultrathin, affordable laptops: Think of these machines as the love children of netbooks, which are small and inexpensive yet slow, and full-power six-pound machines, which can run more-complex programs.

Why Now
Netbooks, this year’s hit, show that skinny sells. So chip makers are releasing new varieties of the tiny, energy-efficient chips—usually found in sleek $2,000 laptops—that make faster thin machines possible.

How You’ll Benefit

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In today's gadget blogosphere, there are few if any new products that aren't upon release subjected to an immediate "unboxing"--a thorough and, some may say, pathologically obsessive series of photographs documenting exactly what is implied by the name: taking a shiny new object out of its multiple layers of packaging, step by exhaustive step.

For those leaning more toward the "pathologically obsessive" reasoning here (there are in fact entire blogs dedicated to the practice), the question is: Why does this happen?

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