George Pearce - iamPearce

Have you ever thrown out a gadget unintentionally? I havn’t had the misfortune of this yet, but I’m sure I will one day.

Steven Levvy, the technology journalist for Newsweek had almost this exact problem this week. He recently reviewed the MacBook Air, and liked it so much that he decided to keep it. After a few weeks of having it, his laptop vanished.

He called Apple, thinking it had been stolen, and reportedly, they laughed at him. Then came searching, and finally he decided that it had been thrown out with the Sunday Papers, by his “less clutter tolerant” wife,

My wife, whose clutter tolerance is well below my own, sometimes will
swoop in and hastily gather the pulp in a huge stack, going directly to
the trash-compactor room just down the hall from our apartment, dumping
the pile into a plastic recycling bin.

Ars Technica thinks that his biggest mistake may not have been letting it vanish in the first place, but allowing himself to name his wife as a suspect.

That’s great. While it is a pretty dumb mistake (remember, papers are normally flexible, a laptop isn’t ), it’s probably not the last.

The best bit is that Newsweek is going to stump up to replace it, apparently