Critical Voices of our Generation

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"Noted fashion photographer" and America's Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker critiques computers in the latest issue of Laptop Magazine. On the MacBook Air: "I don’t like the fact that it doesn’t have CD/DVD drive. I also think it’s overkill. Skinny is no longer so important; I don’t think everything needs to be that tiny. I think they have gone a bit too far with it and she needs to chunk up a bit. She needs to eat something and put on a DVD drive and some USB ports for her to go to the next round. Eat something honey." [Laptop Mag via Gawker]