Ever wondered what other MP3 players must have felt when they saw the second-generation iPod Nano? Sony Walkman felt so bad it married the first European guy that proposed to her, a Mr. Ericsson. The countless other MP3 player brands felt unappreciated many went into seclusion. To say that the portable computing world has been traumatized by the form factor of Apple’s new product is to deny the permanently debilitating effect of MacBooks getting thinner over the years. Is this how we see portable computers nowadays, as skin and bones, LED screens and aluminum and 65nm Merom chips in reduced size?