Landing Zone makes your MacBook Air actually useful
Dan Seitz 
If you own a MacBook Air, you probably quickly realized, soon after getting it, that Apple can be pretty stingy with the ports when pursuing the smallest, thinnest laptop possible. It literally has a headphone jack, two USB ports and one Thunderbolt port, and that’s it: no HDMI, so no way to stream Netflix to a TV; no PCI slots, so no way to add new cards to it; no Ethernet port, so you can plug into a wired Internet; and no serial port, so it’s impossible to physically connect a printer to it. Although considering the quality of most printers, that’s a bit like saying they left out the “shock you in the testicles” feature.
Nonetheless, people need ports, and if Apple won’t provide them? The Landing Zone will.
Laptop docks are usually boring, but the Landing Zone is actually an extremely elegant solution. It’s designed to be unobtrusive and slot right into all of your Air’s ports.
Yes, it fills all the holes. We’ll wait while you stop laughing, you immature rascal, you.
Anyway, once your Air gets plugged up like an aging porn star, you get a wired Ethernet port, three USB 2.0 ports, and a Mini DisplayPort, the one downside: Apple’s annoying proprietary display connector means you still have to lug around an HDMI to MDP converter. Need to take your MacBook Air somewhere else? Pull the lever at the back and it immediately pops free, ready to go.
$200 sounds a little steep for a laptop dock, but it’s worth it and besides, if you cared about saving money, you wouldn’t have bought an Apple laptop anyway.
Landing Zone to ease docking woes [Ars Technica]
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