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Re:How I Got My Stolen Laptop Back Within 24 Hours Using Prey on Thursday September 08, 2011 @02:09AM (#2972815)
If I found a laptop I would:

1. PC... pop out the BIOS battery to clear the BIOS password, re-flash the BIOS, DoD wipe the harddrive and install Windows fresh.

2. Mac... pop out the battery, wipe the PRAM, DoD wipe the harddrive and install OSX fresh.

Re:Ask HN:Should I get the new Macbook Air to replace my 3yr old MBP? on Sunday August 07, 2011 @06:37PM (#2857998)
My opinion is that the current air is great for light weight development and travel, but not so good for heavy development. My use case is probably different then most, as I run 2 linux VMs, 1 win7 VM Xcode, Eclipse IDE, Xcode IDE, Komodo IDE, Adobe CS Suite and compile java, c, c++ in millions of lines of code. I'm currently working on a 17" mbp on 8gb ram and 480GB ssd. I'm usually 12 gb into swap, so I would love 16gb. I heard that the 15" air is in the pipeline, so that might be a good option.