Is one of the most important ports for laptops missing from the MacBook Air?

[kap]

A light weight laptop locked up in a heavy duty briefcase? Now that would defeat the whole purpose of owning a MBA, wouldn't it?

[guitarist]

[quote smk]Yea, forgot about college and high schools. No parent is going to send a kid off to college with a laptop that can't be locked down.
Most parents have no clue what that slot is for, neither do the students, and neither do most of us in here.

I have a MBPro, and until you reminded me, I forgot that slot was even there. If someone's gonna steal my laptop, that little "lock" thingie isn't much use.

No parent will send a kid off to college without that little slot being in their laptop?

It's doomed! Doomed!

[MacMagus]

I used a Kensington lock on my laptop in the library.

With my particular major, it was not unheard of for people to camp out at the library through most of the day and night sometimes, researching and writing and occasionally napping.

It was also not unheard of for someone to notice an unattended laptop and walk away with it.

It took all of perhaps 30 seconds to wrap a cable around a table-leg and lock the laptop to it. Given the length of the cable, a thief would have to upend the table to take my laptop.

'Seemed like sufficient deterrent for a casual thief.

[Mike V]

This is the first I've heard of people actually using one of those slots.

Apart from demo machines at trade shows, I've never seen someone use one of those locks on a laptop.

On the a rare occassion I've seen a desktop locked down.