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$4 billion doesn’t do much for Zuck’s wardrobe [Facebook]January 14th, 2008 at 2:47 pmSource:Valleywag
First, the specs don’t check out. Solid state drives — the no-moving-parts flash-memory hard drive rumored to be in an upcoming notebook — don’t come in 60 and 80 GB sizes. Currently available models are 32 and 64 GB. Second, the picture lists the mini-DVI port on the MacBook Air as being able to support the 30″ Apple Cinema Display and a new, unannounced, 40″ display. Both of these displays would require some serious graphics power that the current MacBooks simply don’t have. If Apple is trying to shrink this laptop, they wouldn’t include that sort of graphics card, which is big and generates a lot of heat. A decent Photoshop job, in other words, but we call shenanigans.
newVideoPlayer(”Zuckerburg_One_Bedroom.flv”, 475, 376,”"); “I have a little one-bedroom apartment with a mattress on the floor,” he told Stahl. OK, so maybe we got it wrong when in early December we reported Zuckerberg cashed out. But Zuck’s taste in Italian leather loafers — his only upscale apparel — tells us maybe he wishes we’d gotten it right.
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There’s not even a product yet, but already the rumored “MacBook Air” 
With his 27 percent stake in the company, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is worth about $4 billion. (In an interview aired last night, 60 Minutes put the figure at $3 billion, but the venerable show is — how to put this delicately? — incorrect.) So what does a billion here, a billion there do for the 23-year old founder? Not much to improve his wardrobe, apparently. “You don’t look like you’re buying expensive clothes,” interviewer Lesley Stahl tells him. Ouch. And it sounds like that paper wealth isn’t doing much to improve Zuck’s housing situation, either. 
