
Take the recent launch of Apple's new Macbook Air. You could hardly avoid the collective swooning of the press over what is must surely be the one of the most striking laptops ever. And you'll pay handsomely to be the first to open its ultra thin cover at your neighborhood Starbucks. Innovative? Of course: Apple continues to school the electronics world in the art of industrial design. But beneath that beautiful sculpted aluminum and glass is a deeply conventional device. What's really new about the Macbook Air? Not much. It's super thin. But it works like virtually every laptop sold... Read more →