{"id":586,"date":"2012-10-16T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=586"},"modified":"2012-10-16T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:42:57","slug":"microsofts-new-gravity-defying-magnesium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s New Gravity Defying Magnesium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking News!! Microsoft invented a new type of magnesium that is lighter than actual Magnesium according to some PR bullshit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At 1.5 pounds, the Surface isn&#8217;t the lightest 10-inch tablet. It&#8217;s not  even the thinnest, at 0.37 inches. Still, Microsoft claims that it feels  lighter than other 1.5-pound devices, partly because it&#8217;s made of  magnesium, and partly because the battery is evenly spread inside the  chassis, making for some more balanced weight distribution (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/10\/16\/microsoft-surface-behind-the-scenes\/\">from Engadget<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you remove the PR bullshit filter what this really means is that it feels flimsy and cheap compared to decent tablets.<\/p>\n<p>I like this <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/treestman\/post\/1021534\">post by Tom Reestman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Remember,  1.5 pounds of magnesium feels lighter than 1.5 pounds of aluminum or  plastic. But Microsoft engineers are working hard to make their  next-generation tablets feel as light as 1.5 pounds of feathers. :-\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking News!! Microsoft invented a new type of magnesium that is lighter than actual Magnesium according to some PR bullshit: At 1.5 pounds, the Surface isn&#8217;t the lightest 10-inch tablet. It&#8217;s not even the thinnest, at 0.37 inches. Still, Microsoft claims that it feels lighter than other 1.5-pound devices, partly because it&#8217;s made of magnesium, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,3],"tags":[190,116,189,188],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-general","tag-magnesium","tag-microsoft","tag-surface","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}