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Not as light as apple said
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It's just a marketing thing, but it looks cool.
Edit: - Did you crash your car into that building just to prove that?
Edit: - Did you crash your car into that building just to prove that?
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It's the display at my apple store too, and it CLEARY has a solid wire from the balloon to the ceiling.
I don't think they want peeps to actually believe it's a real balloon?
It's the display at my apple store too, and it CLEARY has a solid wire from the balloon to the ceiling.
I don't think they want peeps to actually believe it's a real balloon?
Poor Apple Store! 
At least it didn't hit the display tables.
Where did this happen, and how?
My local Apple Store has the same display. I know it's not a real balloon holding it up, but it is a great window display that catches the shoppers attention.
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At least it didn't hit the display tables.
Where did this happen, and how?
My local Apple Store has the same display. I know it's not a real balloon holding it up, but it is a great window display that catches the shoppers attention.
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Thanks for spoiling it for the rest of us. At least put it in white so that people who want to read it have to highlight it.Kidding.
If they used real balloons they would constantly have to replace them as they leaked down, people might mess with them, and they would get blown around with air currents.
Like everyone else said it's just a fun marketing display, I don't think it is meant to be taken literally.
Like everyone else said it's just a fun marketing display, I don't think it is meant to be taken literally.
Helium has a lifting force of about 1 gram per liter. (source)
A typical amusement park balloon holds 14 liters of Helium.
The 11in MBA weighs 1.06Kg (1060g), so you'd need about ~76 balloons.
The 13in MBA weighs 1.32Kg (1320g), so you'd need about ~95 balloons.
This is assuming the balloon itself and string are negligible in weight... so you may wanna throw in some extra balloons
A typical amusement park balloon holds 14 liters of Helium.
The 11in MBA weighs 1.06Kg (1060g), so you'd need about ~76 balloons.
The 13in MBA weighs 1.32Kg (1320g), so you'd need about ~95 balloons.
This is assuming the balloon itself and string are negligible in weight... so you may wanna throw in some extra balloons
Helium has a lifting force of about 1 gram per liter. (source)
A typical amusement park balloon holds 14 liters of Helium.
The 11in MBA weighs 1.06Kg (1060g), so you'd need about ~76 balloons.
The 13in MBA weighs 1.32Kg (1320g), so you'd need about ~95 balloons.
This is assuming the balloon itself and string are negligible in weight... so you may wanna throw in some extra balloons
hahahahaha
nice customer marketing strategy tho
The MacBook Air also appears to be made out of metal, and not air at all. I have also been totally unable to find the book that I expected to find with my Mac. I'm glad you crashed your car into the store in order to expose the Apple lies.
Since the Air weighs 1.06Kg and as another poster mentioned helium has a lifting force of 1gram/Liter, it's a very straight-forward bit of math. 1060grams=1060 Liters of Helium (plus change for balloon and string mass). That is equal to a cube of about 1.02 meters on all sides, or a spherical balloon 1.27 meters in diameter.
It probably could fit in a window display, but I think the effect would be lost.
It's exactly so, for further reading one can read this - http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/21168/How-much-helium-do-one-need-to-lift-1KgSince the Air weighs 1.06Kg and as another poster mentioned helium has a lifting force of 1gram/Liter, it's a very straight-forward bit of math. 1060grams=1060 Liters of Helium (plus change for balloon and string mass). That is equal to a cube of about 1.02 meters on all sides, or a spherical balloon 1.27 meters in diameter.
It probably could fit in a window display, but I think the effect would be lost.