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Apple Introduces Manila Case,The World's Thinnest Case

gizmodo.com — MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO —Apple® today unveiled Manila® Case®, the world's thinnest case for the world's thinnest laptop, the MacBook Air. When empty, Manila Case measures an unprecedented 0.07-inches at its thinnest point, but its dynamically adaptable height goes up to a maximum of 6.9-inches, adapting perfectly to the MacBook Air

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  • Del129, on 01/16/2008, -18/+553$300 is a small price to pay for innovation like this.
    • grantmc1, on 01/16/2008, -147/+2who is going to tell him its a joke? Me,Ok...


      ITS A JOKE!
      • kinseyincanada, on 01/16/2008, -0/+142so whos going to tell him it was sarcasm?
      • k1down, on 01/16/2008, -5/+112Me, Ok...

        IT'S A SARCASM!
        • Waskonator, on 01/16/2008, -30/+12Who's going to tell him there is no such thing as "A SARCASM"?
        • cledet, on 01/16/2008, -31/+7Who's going to tell him that sarcasm is a noun?
        • NathanielJ, on 01/16/2008, -21/+9Who's going to tell cledet that he doesn't know anything about grammar?
        • Jeffler, on 01/16/2008, -10/+39C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
        • elvenseven, on 01/16/2008, -4/+19so whos going to tell them ^ they fail?
        • Lythium, on 01/16/2008, -5/+6We all are, collectively.
        • Kanidia, on 01/17/2008, -1/+4I love to reply to comments!
        • Dylson, on 01/17/2008, -3/+3Who is going to tell the digg community they're all idiots? Me, ok
          YOUR ALL IDIOTS!
          • Aupajo, on 01/17/2008, -1/+8I'm so damn sick of people spelling "you're" without the e. It's perfectly simple English to learn. It's short for "you are", people! This isn't hard!

            BTW, nice way to shoot yourself in the foot.
      • hockey, on 01/16/2008, -13/+3ignore
      • dafragsta, on 01/16/2008, -3/+40The sad reality is that Gizmodo probably ripped the idea directly from the comments on Digg. Someone mentioned the notion of selling overpriced envelopes yesterday in jest. Now it's ad revenue driving content on Gizmodo.
        • TheMidnight, on 01/16/2008, -0/+8Have you ever looked at political cartoons? It doesn't take many people to come up with the same idea that they both think is funny independently.
      • Scoresheet, on 01/16/2008, -3/+6Wow. you're....really dumb.
      • ophello, on 01/17/2008, -3/+4Wow...you fail at life.
        • Magnus150, on 01/17/2008, -1/+1Wow...you must really love Steve to deny such an obviously witty comment. You are probably just sad that you would have said the same thing, without the sarcasm.
      • xyqxyq, on 01/17/2008, -1/+4Epicfail is epic.
    • Chirp08, on 01/16/2008, -1/+90Don't feel like lugging that heavy new laptop around? Well this case doubles as postage packaging! Simply mail your laptop to your destination and avoid the hassle!
      • digggggggggg, on 01/16/2008, -3/+2But not the hassle of using jb weld to get your laptop back in once piece again.
    • daridave, on 01/16/2008, -3/+47Apple logo? come one that's worth at least 500$.
    • Urkel, on 01/16/2008, -7/+5The annoying part of all this "It fits in a Manila Case" hoopla is that my Macbook fits in one too. I understand the symbolism and blah blah blah but I just find it odd that the Manila case is the most talked about item at Macworld.

      Props are for carrot top. I want products.
    • Ireland, on 01/16/2008, -0/+40Don't let Gizmodo into your house, they'll turn off you TV
    • madwh, on 01/16/2008, -7/+2the future iPhone http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_Air
    • punx777, on 01/17/2008, -1/+5Manila® Case®
    • cr4wl3r, on 01/17/2008, -2/+1I guarantee some fanboy is jerking off to a picture of steve jobs while simultaneously thinking that this is indeed a small price to pay. probably on his new overpriced apple computer.
    • acitcratnA, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3There is a real Manila envelope laptop case for the Air on sale...

      http://www.manilamac.com/
      • opiniastrous, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Actually, I really like that, though I wouldn't buy it if I had an MBA (I leave my MBP cleanskined).
  • an0nym0uz, on 01/16/2008, -132/+50apple sucks
    -and yes i know this is a joke
    but apple still sucks
    apple = overpriced and overrated
    • r2builder, on 01/16/2008, -12/+69Dear an0nym0uz, kindly go to your profile and stop receiving news about Apple. Until you do this, you'll continue to annoy the rest of the digg community.
      Thanks.
    • IglooBurner, on 01/16/2008, -10/+22your name sucks. dude ur 29 years old and u still use zero in place of "o"'s? you might as well upper case every other letter. wow and you even topped it off with a "z"
      • Dedpoet, on 01/16/2008, -1/+14You're 26 years old and still use "ur" when you mean "you're?" You're on Digg; you can probably type relatively quickly. Type the few extra characters and you won't look as bad as the person you're trying to make fun of.
        • IglooBurner, on 01/16/2008, -15/+0stop being a bitch about "u"s, its perfectly normal. this is a discussion thread, its one step up from chatting, i don't have to write a business letter every time i want to say something.
      • abhiroop, on 01/16/2008, -3/+1z? he should...its the American thing to do!
      • dullly, on 01/16/2008, -5/+1u suck and ur an idiot. and so does averything related to apple.
    • digitalarcanum, on 01/16/2008, -9/+18I agree. Apple sucks and this year's macworld just proves it in spades. they haven't done anything revolutionary.
      • NotaFanboy87, on 01/16/2008, -4/+2Ah, so you expect Apple to do something revolutionary in order for them not to suck? What if they do, would it shut you up? No. You obviously care enough about the company to keep your fingers on its pulse, why not try to see what they are trying to accomplish and maybe ask yourself "why" they do the things they do? Couldn't hurt.
        • digitalarcanum, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5the thing is I don't care why they do the things they do. The fact is their ***** is over-priced. anything Apple makes, there's a PC compatible version that's better, more efficient, and more affordable and made with the same quality hardware (if you think that extra money you're paying goes towards hardware quality, you're vastly mistaken.)
        • ophello, on 01/17/2008, -4/+1youre pretty much an ignoramus with a chip on his shoulder who likes to make ***** up rather than actually compare the products.

          i doubt you even looked at the other thin models out there. macbook air is easily comparable to other models, and fairly priced as well. do some research before opening your dumb hole.
      • masbestiaquetu, on 01/16/2008, -3/+2what has microsoft done revolutionary in the past year?
        • TheMidnight, on 01/16/2008, -2/+7Driven more people to Apple.
        • digitalarcanum, on 01/17/2008, -1/+4the touch screen interface table, the windows home server, provided express editions of the visual studio programs, provided a free SDK for game developers, etc.. That's just microsoft. that's just a software provider. Now go ahead and ask me how many pc manufacturers have provided revolutionary things for the hardware industry and it beats Apple every time.
          • pinstripewizard, on 01/17/2008, -4/+0touch screen tables are great for things like ummmmmm... decorating virtual snowboards?
          • MadOtaku, on 01/17/2008, -3/+1Microsoft's awesome table thing (Surface?) isn't anything Microsoft came up with. It was bought off someone else and was really just an up-scaling of already existing tech.

            I don't know enough about Windows Home Server to comment on it; but it seems pretty nice. Not really sure how "revolutionary" it was though.

            "Express" editions of software have been done by Apple, Adobe, and other high-end software producers for years now (probably at least 10). That's hardly revolutionary.

            I assume you mean an XBox 360 SDK. If so, hasn't the PS3 had one for a while now? I think other platforms have too, but gaming isn't my area of expertise.

            Personally, I would have talked about Microsoft's Zune; with its fantastic wireless capabilities, it's the closest thing to revolutionary that Microsoft has done in a while (even though that N95 had more stuff sooner/simultaneously).
        • ophello, on 01/17/2008, -2/+1other manufacturers COPY apple. you got it backwards. look at the iphone, and how quickly other phone companies copied the formal design and interface design.
          • digitalarcanum, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5right so time capsule isn't a copy of windows home server? the Apple TV isn't a gimped copy of a HTPC (windows media center). The asus EeePC, solid state disks were made available for PCs first. The mac pros that have multiple graphics cards in them (SLI) guess who did that? Nvidia. Who does Nvidia cater to? games. Where are gamers? on PCs. DDR3. AMD made dual core processors mainstream. I've yet to see an Apple system with AMD processors in it. RIM blackberry, and blackberry enterprise server revolutionized both the business and PC world.

            Are you seeing a pattern here?
      • ophello, on 01/17/2008, -0/+5tell that to the hundreds of engineers who spent thousands of hours figuring out how to develop an integrated board in a package that small, and the intel engingeers who had to shrink their processor by 60%.

        You, sir, dont understand the meaning of "innovation".

        This is CLEARLY innovative. Overpriced? Yes. Innovative? Yes.

        So quit your bitch'n.
        • Abomonog, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2Actually the copying goes both ways. It's well known that Windows is a rip off the Apple interface. (one great example of ripping off Apple) But Apple hardware technology is mostly copied from the PC innovations and maybe miniaturized a bit. The Integrated board was a PC thing BTW. Apple again just shrank it.
          And digitalarcanum, The reason you don't see AMD possessors in Apples is because Apple got greedy about rights in the 80's when IBM gave them away. They're still greedy even though it almost killed the company. So as long as Apple won't allow 3rd party MB's and CPU's AMD cannot produce for Apples. So no AMD CPU's for Apple.
    • Jomskylark, on 01/16/2008, -8/+1I disagree. If you don't like Apple, don't comment. Simple as that.
  • Lijiman, on 01/16/2008, -49/+9...but will my MacBook fit in it? What about a MB Pro??
    • slimjim5811, on 01/16/2008, -0/+47With minor modifications using scissors and tape.
      • 350Zed, on 01/16/2008, -1/+61NO!!! You'll void the warranty!

        You need to buy the Apple® Manila® Case® Expansion Kit® for $30. It contains Apple® Manila® Case® Lacerators® and a roll of Apple® Manila® Case® Adhesive Strips®.
        • Lythium, on 01/16/2008, -8/+2Bastard, you beat me to it >:|
        • BOFH2, on 01/16/2008, -1/+14You can't modify it on your own! You have to send it in, wait 3 weeks and then get it back. I mean, that's what this guy told me online....
  • grantmc1, on 01/16/2008, -112/+8Lol, a was lk eh! but then a was lk naw! n now am like fagots beleiving this is true!
    • UncleHenry, on 01/16/2008, -4/+64n now am liek u r such a doosh!
      • Jeffler, on 01/16/2008, -20/+3n now am liek C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
        • slvrbullet87, on 01/16/2008, -10/+1n nowz i wsa lykz breakin you'are C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!1!1!11!@221!! Superduper PWND
        • opiniastrous, on 01/17/2008, -1/+11 comment + 1 reply ≠ combo.
    • roberri, on 01/16/2008, -0/+31Least coherent post ever!
      • MacEnvy, on 01/16/2008, -2/+5According to his profile, he's Scottish. It makes more sense if you read it with an accent from "Snatch".

        As a side note, it's rather interesting that one can sometimes guess another person's nationality from a single comment, even without any obvious colloquialisms, simply from the way words are abbreviated.
        • richardiscool, on 01/16/2008, -3/+8It actually does make sense in a comedy Scotch accent.
          "Lol, I was like 'eh?', then I was like 'no!' And now I'm like '*****, believing this is true!'."
      • cozmo88, on 01/16/2008, -3/+1Could you explain how reading an accent from Snatch would help?
        Snatch is set in "England", not Scotland the accents sound nothing alike at all.
        If you are referring to the gypsies in the film they are from Ireland, another country which doesn't happen to be Scotland.

        As a side note it's also interesting how you didn't guess grantmc1's nationality from the way his comment was abbreviated, rather by looking at his profile.
        • MacEnvy, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Separate comments in the same reply, sorry about that. Here's a clarification:
          1. His comment begins to make sense if you read it with a heavy brogue, such as that of the Irish Gypsies in Snatch, or a heavy Scottish accent if you prefer. It just works.
          2. I guessed his nationality before looking at his profile, and was pleased to find out I was correct.
          • cozmo88, on 01/16/2008, -1/+0I know my first comment and I managed to place it in the wrong part, sorry.
            I thought it would have made more sense to refer to a movie spoken in that kind of dialect such as trainspotting.
            There were only two abbreviations in his comment "lk" and "n", but there were more than a few colloquialisms (a, eh, naw, am) which would give away the nationality more than n which is widely used outside of Scotland as far as I can tell, and lk that I guess most people would mistake for look than like what grantmc1 meant.
    • kevdude421, on 01/16/2008, -0/+8You should never be allowed to breed.
    • Jomskylark, on 01/16/2008, -1/+1Wait, what'd you say? I'm having trouble reading "lk" and "beleiving".
    • thesha1, on 01/17/2008, -1/+0..........what?
    • str1fe, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3I'd probably still digg you down if I could understand that post
  • CTK14A, on 01/16/2008, -39/+22MAJOR feature flaw! The manila case doesn't support USB 3.0 capability! Get it right, Apple.
  • CraigJ, on 01/16/2008, -44/+22buried as lame Gizmodo bid for traffic.
  • ScottAG, on 01/16/2008, -46/+30Someone just shoot Gizmodo. Put it out of its misery.
  • geezshock, on 01/16/2008, -29/+175will it blend ?
  • blackmage439, on 01/16/2008, -37/+8Yes, but will it blend?

    On another note, I noticed Apple dared copyright Manilla(R). Who the hell do they think they are? T-Mobile?
  • vagrantwade, on 01/16/2008, -38/+22Could anyone recommend me a social news site that isn't dominated by Mac fanboys? I'd throw in "and not full of Ron Paul fanatics" but I realize this is the internet and there is only so little take with the give.
    • duffblue, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2Something Awful : /
    • timusca, on 01/16/2008, -1/+29No, but I can point you to a social networking site that allows the blocking of certain categories.

      Digg.com
      • Firehed, on 01/16/2008, -2/+1Not in the RSS feed.
      • gandhii, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2digg is a social "news" site more than a social "networking" site. And although the RSS feed option is a bit limited, one could always just subscribe to all the other sub-categories and not the apple one.
    • universeman, on 01/16/2008, -9/+2Ron Paul!

      end the war
      cut Federal spending
      reduce the debt
      protect the Constitution
      return the U.S. to a humble global citizen

      I can see why so many are so fanatical. Go overseas and ask around, you'll find lots of support for his program.
      • dirtmonkey, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5hey, back on task! We are bashing Mac fanboys here, not Ron Paul. Macworld was lame, lets move on with our lives.
      • MindStalker, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Free Mac air books for all?

        If not I simply can't vote for him. ;/
    • Radan, on 01/16/2008, -1/+12Can anyone recommend me a a social news site which isn't dominated by platform fanboys who screams out fanboy every time someone likes a product which (s)he doesn't use?

      I believe there's at least if not more Anti Apple "fanboys" on this site than Mac users and people who has accepted the fact that just because someone likes a product that they don't like, doesn't mean that he or she is a retarded maggot.

      Bashing other people because they like another product (I'm talking about everyone right now) is so bloody 1990 that it hurts. Even worse is that many simply bash the other product for no other reason but that someone ELSE likes the said product.

      Now suck this; I own an iPhone and I love it, I think gun control laws are great, Super Mario Galaxy is fun but got to be the most overrated game in history, closely followed by Bioshock which also was great but far from perfect, I'm against piracy and I'm even thinking about buying a PS3.
      • slvrbullet87, on 01/16/2008, -1/+2You would be my hero if it wasnt for the iPhone. I do own a mac book tho
      • dullly, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1I am sure the iphone is cool, but for the price with contract you gotta be f&^%$King kidding. I use my phone for calling people.
      • LeeSoong, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Well, you will have only 1 PS3 - Not 3 PS3s.

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1jB4hVJRg
      • digitalarcanum, on 01/16/2008, -3/+31) iphone is over-rated. Get a blackberry and be happy.
        2) the reason there's so many anti-apple fanboys is because the ifans here on digg never shut the ***** up, even after you tell them you don't give a ***** about apple they still cram it down your throat case in point-- this website. blocking the Apple catagory did nothing to get rid of that stupid ass macworld countdown banner.
        Not to mention the mac community even down to its developers constantly flames the PC community. You started this ***** mac users, now reap what you've sown.
        3) gun control laws are reasonable, no qualms there
        4)no comment on UR MR GAY
        5)I love bioshock
        6) Piracy is fun
        7) as soon as the school stops raping me in the ass for $800.00/month in tuition payments, I'd get a PS3

        and to add to your notes: the wii is over-rated.
      • thingnumber2, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Well said.
      • Tunguska, on 01/17/2008, -1/+1You must be a Mac Fanboy.
    • dullly, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3www.rushlimbaugh.com // this site rules. It is hosted by a radio talk show host who is very intelligent but also funny. his name is Rush Limbaugh and his show is the best radio show I have ever heard. His website is also very cool. He does, however, use a lame apple computer. but other than that you should check it out. He says ron paul is a nitwit. I think that he might be a nitwit but i haven't heard of ron paul until last july when i saw his name on CNN. ron paul is another not as good radio guy I think.
      • keeganspeck, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Are you ***** kidding me? That's friggin' Rush Limbaugh. We all know who he is. And he doesn't rule in the least bit. In fact, he's an idiot.
  • johnnybluejeans, on 01/16/2008, -69/+335This just in: Gizmodo should stick to tech and drop the comedy.
    • cawpin, on 01/16/2008, -1/+10Especially the performance "art".
    • phoomp, on 01/16/2008, -3/+33I like the comedy
    • gn0stik, on 01/16/2008, -2/+47Selling an envelope for three hundred dollars is pretty funny and appropriate apple satire in my opinion.
    • Falldog, on 01/16/2008, -0/+17It was funnier when someone on digg made the joke yesterday.
      • GeneralGore, on 01/17/2008, -0/+4Where do you think they got the idea from?
    • isadalawatatlo, on 01/16/2008, -5/+1Gizmodo should diaf
    • zspeed78, on 01/16/2008, -5/+14Comedy or not.. I thought we werent supporting these morons after their CES pranks?
      • drunk3nrabbit, on 01/16/2008, -1/+6most of us aren't since we use ad-block, so we are "stealing" bandwidth from them
    • kevlarbaboon, on 01/16/2008, -2/+1You aren't my local news anchor!
    • nyrol2, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1They get banned from current tech news, so they have to make ***** up.
  • theholotrope, on 01/16/2008, -3/+197I have a couple of these in my office if anybody is interested. I'll sell them to you for 250. But just for you, my friend.
  • borez, on 01/16/2008, -11/+2Evolope
  • basic0, on 01/16/2008, -12/+187I seriously couldn't tell if this was a joke when I first started reading it. I think my line of reasoning was "If they'll release the MacBook Air for $1800-3200, then a $300 envelope doesn't seem that outrageous."
    • pixelmixer, on 01/16/2008, -7/+5agreed +digg
    • streak, on 01/16/2008, -13/+2I seriously think anyone's a dork if for one instant they believed it. Like, it says so on a highly respected news site like jizz-modo, so it must be true.
      • blahtastic, on 01/16/2008, -3/+4I didn't believe it, but if apple put these out, sadly, I bet a few would sell.
    • rspeed, on 01/16/2008, -8/+6Leave the satire to the professionals.
    • ophello, on 01/17/2008, -5/+4i dont know why people are bitching about the $3000 price tag when its a ***** OPTION and has NOTHING to do with apple's pricing. its a SSD drive, for gods sake. of course its expensive as hell.
    • tiberone, on 01/17/2008, -0/+8i seriously thought this was real. does anyone remember the $100 leather ipod cases apple came out with a while ago? just a leather sleeve with a cheap strap sewn in..
  • hyperionshift, on 01/16/2008, -2/+76Oh noes, the clip and tie-string are embedded in the case. If they fail, you'll have to ship it back to Apple for replacement. Thankfully, it's still free shipping!
    • Lunarparcel, on 01/16/2008, -0/+9Yeah, it is free shipping to send in your broken Manila case for repair, but what's even better... they actually send you a FREE Manila case in which to package and send in your broken one. Some folks might just think, "Well, gee whiz - I'll just keep the free one they sent me and toss my broken one in the garbage." But no way, man. That would void your warranty.
  • Waskonator, on 01/16/2008, -3/+24$20 to be able to close it? pffft. I mean, I've paid $5 for a bit of red string before. But $20???
    • Firehed, on 01/16/2008, -2/+12You've paid $5 for string before? I've got a piece of real estate that may interest you...
      • Lythium, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4You don't knit, do you.... Admittedly, $5 will get you a REALLY LONG piece of string (half a scarf's worth, sometimes).
        • dkirkham, on 01/16/2008, -4/+1I'm guessing from the name "FireHed" that no, he doesn't knit!
    • lrdntwnd, on 01/16/2008, -0/+6you get white string included... it's if you want to upgrade to the red....
    • holygram, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Sorry sir, we don't accept bits of string.
  • yikiad, on 01/16/2008, -12/+5I can't believe they would produce a case like this, I mean hell, where's the inter-office memo field? sheesh!
  • jptolife, on 01/16/2008, -18/+7I don't understand the need to bash Apple all the time. If you do not like their products, you are not forced to buy them period. Don't you people like something a lot? anything? Just think of that and then think of people who like apple, is their lives to like and not like whatever they want and you have no ***** right to call anyone a fanboy. Assholes.
    • Tourney3p0, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1I like cake a lot. I would probably wager that many people here like cake a lot. Yet you don't see many cake-related articles here. It would be equally sad to make cake my life or be a self-proclaimed cake fanboy. If someone gets to the point where Betty Crocker releases a new recipe and they lay out of work to go purchase it, they should probably go ahead and be put out of their misery.
      • blahtastic, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5*sigh* Someone has to do it.

        The cake is a lie.
      • rspeed, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4Man, that new Betty Crocker Cake Book sucks. Did you see that new recipe? Angel food??? Who the hell wants angel food cake!? I want vanilla cake with chocolate frosting! What the hell is Betty Crocker thinking making a cake book that has a recipe that's not vanilla with chocolate frosting!?
      • gandhii, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2cake sucks!
      • no1nos, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1Do you have any good analogies, or is this pretty much it?
    • Lythium, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Someone hand the boy a valium. If he gets that worked up over a spoof this benign, he's gonna need it.
    • BbIT, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4jptolife's comment is the Apple Fanboy equivilant to the "Leave Britney Alone!" youtube video.
    • slvrbullet87, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4We cant have one article bashing on the Air? 7 or the aricles in the top 10 right now are praising apple products so why cant we make a joke?
    • foreignwarren, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2fanboy
  • emcea, on 01/16/2008, -7/+77When did Gizmodo turn into the ***** Onion?
    • bbqsalad, on 01/16/2008, -11/+6Giz has always had funny post's and content.. Check out there youtube videos some of them are hilarious.
      • GreenAlien, on 01/16/2008, -1/+1"some of them are hilarious"

        I doubt it. Childish, maybe.
    • Rezistik, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1When they got banned from CES, they basically said screw it we can't be a tech blog when quite a few conventions will be banning us
    • Zephik, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1When did Gizmodo TRY to turn into the Onion?*
  • Thoraxes, on 01/16/2008, -2/+22Next worlds thinnest should be the price tag. Seriously.
  • hs112186, on 01/16/2008, -11/+9wow i thought manila cases were only for TPS reports :-O i am amazed, does this amazing case come in an ASUS EEE edition?
    • BFisch06, on 01/17/2008, -1/+1This case does support the Eee, but for another $200 you can upgrade to the XL case, which will hold 2 Eee PCs!!!
  • DrKillJoy, on 01/16/2008, -4/+6I'll wait for the Tyvek knock off.
  • risico001, on 01/16/2008, -7/+0Haha great title. I thought the same when I saw it. The Air looks nice but the fact that it now lacks a CD/DVD ROM drive (Keep in mind iMacs were the first comps to do away with the 3.5" floppy). That might cause some problems even though they have that remote drive wireless capability.
    • rspeed, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Not to mention the $99 external drive. The only thing Apple is doing differently here compared to companies like Sony is not bundling the drive by default.
  • RadiantBeing, on 01/16/2008, -7/+57Buried as innaccurate. I just spent half an hour trying to buy one of these for my MacBook Air. It isn't on Apple's website.
    • selbrit, on 01/16/2008, -4/+12please tell me you're kidding. Please.
  • SupaNeo, on 01/16/2008, -34/+101This idea was blatantly stolen from a Digg comment yesterday. See for yourself:

    http://digg.com/apple/New_Apple_MacBook_Air_Is_Wor ...

    "Oh, and one more thing....there will now be Apple branded Manilla Envelopes to carry your MacBook Air around in for just 89.99 ::wild applause::"
    -StormFreak

    Just when you thought you couldn't lose anymore respect for Gizmodo.
    • bbqsalad, on 01/16/2008, -22/+7jesus christ. you're a tool.
    • mwalker05, on 01/16/2008, -4/+58im sure the giz staff was avidly scanning digg comments for an article idea. it is fact that selling an envelope as a laptop case occurred to nobody else but stormfreak. i mean its not like its obvious given that its apple and they introduced it by pulling it out of one.
    • rspeed, on 01/16/2008, -1/+25Oh man, I thought of that during the keynote. That guy stole my brain waves and made that comment! WHERE IS MY ALUMINUM FOIL???
    • duggfunny, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5i didn't see the presentation,
      if they took it out of an envelope then doesn't that make this blog post all the more lame?
  • duggfunny, on 01/16/2008, -15/+24wow, was this comment their 'inspiration'?
    http://digg.com/apple/New_Apple_MacBook_Air_Is_Wor ...
    • Nothlit, on 01/16/2008, -1/+11Probably not. The fact that Steve Jobs himself pulled the thing out of a manilla envelope during the keynote was probably their inspiration...
  • flxfxp, on 01/16/2008, -0/+10At least with this you can actually replace a component, the red kaballah string.
  • FecalHurler, on 01/16/2008, -14/+8Didn't somebody make a joke about this yesterday on Digg...? I think Gizmodo stole this idea from someone on this site. For shame.
    • Firehed, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7I think they stole it from Apple's own marketing material.
  • pbrooks100, on 01/16/2008, -2/+3It should have been a white Tyvek bubble mailer with velcro to seal it.

    • rspeed, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I agree with the Tyvek. It's important that the humidity be regulated. A magnetic strip would be more Apple-esque, rather than velcro.
  • aparatoc, on 01/16/2008, -3/+9***** for a moment.. I did think that Apple did that, and looked around the apple store to find it.
  • nebion, on 01/16/2008, -6/+16.9 inches? The thickest part of the MacBook Air is less than 1 inch...there must be some kind of confusion in regards to which dimension they are measuring...

    • Digg90210, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4I guess you didn't read the part about the sandwich -- it *was* in the first paragraph...
      • nstrupp2, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Who gets a sandwich in an envelope? You'd have to staple the lettuce in place or risk total sandwich failure.
        • ChromaVita, on 01/17/2008, -0/+3They just put bread, lettuce, ham, and cheese in an envelope. Some assembly required.
  • truspect0r, on 01/16/2008, -7/+28Gizmodo: Our jokes always fail.
    • sirhomer, on 01/16/2008, -5/+1It talking ***** about Gizmodo a new trend in Digg now?!

      OMG A TREND LETS ALL AVOID IT OR WE SHALL ME NAMED ANTI-GIZMODO FANBOYS!
  • Radica1Faith, on 01/16/2008, -1/+40Warning: Manilia Case v. 1.2 will brick your Manila Case if it has been modified with third-party magic markers.

    Best comment on there.
  • insomniac8400, on 01/16/2008, -19/+5300 dollars for a padded envelope. Well done apple, well done.
    • Shakermaker, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4Read the last line of the story. Next time RTFA article b4 you comment.
    • Lythium, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Whoosh x10
  • zizzybaloobah, on 01/16/2008, -1/+8well at least there's no non-user-replaceable battery in it
    • Lythium, on 01/16/2008, -0/+9But you have to mail it back to change the string.
  • HypocriteDigg, on 01/16/2008, -11/+4Funny, but buried because it's fascist anti-Apple zealot blog Gizmodo.
  • praptak, on 01/16/2008, -4/+13Ok, not very funny, but the question remains: Who the hell cares that the laptop is so ultra thin? Why does Apple pimp the "feature" so hard? It's not a fvcking palmtop for God's sake, you won't fit it into your trouser pocket anyway!
    • Lythium, on 01/16/2008, -2/+2For me it would be a matter of weight. I'm a long-distance commuter, so I'm looking for a laptop which is small and lightweight while still having the functionality I need. Yes, I would prefer something which is small AND light, but if I had to pick one of the two, I would go with the lower weight. I don't intend to "fit it into my trouser pocket," but my backpack is large enough to accommodate a reasonably-sized laptop, so size isn't as much of an issue. So I could see why at least _some_ people would buy it.

      That being said: my functionality requirements exclude Apple immediately, since most of my gaming addictions don't run with the Mac OS, and anything I can _afford_ from Mac wouldn't be able to support it anyway. I've used Macs for a long time in several OS incarnations and several different work environments. I don't like 'em, and I find them vastly overpriced for the specs the offer. But that's only my personal opinion. Does that mean that people who disagrees with me are automatically cretins. Would I buy this product, even if I had the money for it? Hell no. But so what? I'm not part of the target demographic anyway.
    • pauleric, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3It's the only good feature, they have to pimp it. Otherwise it's just a more expensive and less powerful laptop with only one usb port. I'm sure somebody will buy it, but you've got to be pretty desperate for small and lightweight.
    • RikkiTikki, on 01/17/2008, -0/+1It's thin, but they compromise the features. You can spend $200 more for one that is more powerful, less than an a half inch thicker, with a CD drive. The Air is already 1799 STARTING. The one they show in their ads is 3000, and you have to get a wireless external drive if you want to watch DVDs or use a data CD. Once you get that, you might as well get a Macbook because it will take up less space.
  • DecoyQ, on 01/16/2008, -7/+10dug down for Gizmodo being a bunch of dumbasses lately. First you screw up CES, now making faux-news.. They are headed downhill FAST.
  • misteral, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3It's nice and all, but it seems to be missing 2 screws...
  • jarkkop, on 01/16/2008, -9/+4$300 for a paper bag? :|
    • DecoyQ, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2uhh read more into it... it's fake news
    • derjames, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5It is not a paper bag. It is the MacBook Air carrying case...
    • Chromatik, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1nevermind /diggs self down
      • pauleric, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Understandable, it is Apple after all.
  • LimeParrot, on 01/16/2008, -1/+8The funny part of this is that I can actually imagine Apple selling this, maybe for as high as $25 (remember the colorful socks for your ipod??)
  • diggtochina, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4Whats up manilla case? me and my homie Asemet would like to chill in your crib for the night....
  • dasunst3r, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3Is it padded with bubbles? Can I ship a MacBook Air in it without it getting damaged?
  • techweenie1, on 01/16/2008, -2/+14Will the envelope case be available in black for $500?
    • I_am_so_smrt, on 01/17/2008, -1/+2I would think so, with a U2 or Product Red edition soon to follow for an extra $229. Can't wait.
      • glory, on 01/17/2008, -0/+2I personally can't wait for the silver (aluminum foil) edition to come out.
  • bjs3171, on 01/16/2008, -3/+5OH MY GOD HOW DID THEY DO IT???????
  • DeFex, on 01/16/2008, -0/+9I wonder how many i can sell on ebay.
  • Goobernutz, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5I can put my MBP into a Manila envelope too (magnum sized of course). But when I boot the Vista partition and try it, the envelope mysteriously gets grease stains on it and shortly bursts into flames. Weird...
    • techweenie1, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5You can upgrade your envelope to have cooling slits included but it'll cost you $20.
  • SilentSpyder, on 01/16/2008, -5/+8Buried as lame. If it was the Onion I would have dugg, but Gizmodo?
  • Denneval, on 01/16/2008, -0/+0Roflwaffles.
  • potisreallygood, on 01/16/2008, -0/+1Wow, it's just so thin and cool. I really hope they have cool hip commercials for it that play every 5 minutes and they better make it so that if you try to put anything else inside, it explodes.
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