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MacBook Air-O-Matic: It slices! It dices!

by Matthew Elliott
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Storage for your MacBook Air

Sure, the MacBook Air can't spin a DVD or connect to a FireWire device, but did you know it possesses the ability to slice though a loaf of bread? If the photos on this translated-from-the-German forum post are to be believed, the Air can easily make its way through an oatmeal dinner roll. So, if you've been putting off an Air purchase because its features are too few for the price, add bread knife to the list and recalculate.

Before you get too concerned about the safety issues here (and it can't be too long before we see MacBook Airs shipped in boxes with words to the effect of "Warning: Contents May be sharp. Compute on your lap at your own risk."), do note that it appears the man with the sliced elbow came by his injury from the lower edge of a MacBook and not a MacBook Air.

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Matt Elliott, a CNET editor since 2000, heads up coverage of computer hardware, from desktops and laptops to their assorted components and peripherals. Prior to joining CNET, he worked for PC Magazine. When not writing about computers and wrestling with their shipping boxes, he likes shooting with his Nikon D50 camera. Matt is also skilled with a tape gun. E-mail Matt.
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by benjiernmd May 28, 2008 8:46 AM PDT
What is this?
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by cyberDJ-2038765336053745013836 May 28, 2008 8:51 AM PDT
This is a much better use for this useless Apple toy.
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by Lantern42 May 31, 2008 7:33 AM PDT
I knew this was going to be Troll-bait, but at the second post?

You've never even seen one in person, have you?
by solitare_pax May 28, 2008 2:55 PM PDT
What a juvenile way to fill your CNET story quota for the day. Why not post a link to the blender site, showing a Zune or Cell Phone being ripped apart?
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by fleshman03 May 28, 2008 8:44 PM PDT
So wait, can you still a plane?
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by Rod Roddy May 31, 2008 8:44 PM PDT
But wait! there's more...can it julienne a potato?
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by ayoung45 June 1, 2008 3:06 AM PDT
I like the idea of coming up with more uses of this see-how-many-people-buy-a-funtionless laptop.
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