Archive for May, 2009

MacBook Air insides

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

The MacBook Air is lovely, but could use a bit more disk-space. Looks like the 5mm 1.8″ drive in the 1st generation product doesn’t come in larger capacities than 80GB. Ifixit and AnandTech have illustrations of the insides.

Articles by Michael Lewis

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

I just came across this book review of “Liars Poker”, a book I’d enjoyed reading (whilst doing something entirely different, studying this). It contained links to two great articles recently penned by Michael Lewis; one on the Icelandic meltdown and the other on the meltdown of the investment banks. Thanks Russ!