[NPMUG] Senators' laptops the Apple of their ayes - 70 MacBook Air for Nebraska state senators

[Dave Sevick]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10534817

Published Sunday    January 11, 2009
Senators' laptops the Apple of their ayes
BY PAUL HAMMEL
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU

LINCOLN — Does size really matter?
Issues of size versus extra cost have been raised about the purchase  
of new laptop computers for Nebraska state senators — although the  
purchase has plenty of defenders within the Capitol.

About 70 new Apple MacBook Air computers were purchased this session  
for state legislators at a cost of $1,524 each.

The aluminum-encased laptops, which can fit inside a 10-by-13-inch  
Manila envelope, are billed as the "world's thinnest" notebook  
computers.

They weigh in at a svelte 3 pounds — 5 pounds less than the laptops  
they replaced — and are 0.75 of an inch thick.

A more plastic-laced Apple laptop, the MacBook, retails for about $500  
less — $999. The MacBook is a chubbier 4.5 pounds and 0.95 of an inch  
thick.

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