<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10534817">http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10534817</a><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; "><div style="font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="dateline" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Published Sunday January 11, 2009</span><br><span class="headline" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Senators' laptops the Apple of their ayes</span><br><span class="byline" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">BY PAUL HAMMEL</span><br><span class="byline" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">WORLD-HERALD BUREAU</span><br></div><div class="col_1 right" style="float: right; width: 100%; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; "><br></div><div class="col_1 right" style="float: right; width: 100%; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; ">LINCOLN — Does size really matter?</div><div class="col_1 right" style="float: right; width: 100%; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px; "><br></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">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.<br><br>About 70 new Apple MacBook Air computers were purchased this session for state legislators at a cost of $1,524 each.<br><br>The aluminum-encased laptops, which can fit inside a 10-by-13-inch Manila envelope, are billed as the "world's thinnest" notebook computers.<br><br>They weigh in at a svelte 3 pounds — 5 pounds less than the laptops they replaced — and are 0.75 of an inch thick.<br><br>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.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">//end clip //</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">see entire article at:</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; ">http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10534817</span></span></font></div></body></html>