I’d notice that it was made in China and hit the big red button. An immediate nuclear attack is the only chance we’d have against the technological superiority of a country that could make such a device. A little while later the unit would overheat and I’d realize I shouldn’t have reacted so quickly. Then I’d toss it out the window.
Check how the letters LBJ look in San Serif fonts.
Play a lot of solitaire during meetings.
Design slacks that leave more room for the bunghole.
Didn’t President Carter create the Department of Energy in the 1970s? I assume the Department of Defense was in charge of Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos in 1965.
Yeah, it would have been the Atomic Energy Commission in 1965. Either way, the nuke boys would have been using it to do atomic weapon calculations, considering that a MacBook Air is probably on par with an early supercomputer in processing power, and well above anything available in 1965.
That is a pretty interesting question. The first microprocessors were invented in 1970-71, so once you pass that date you’re looking at having the 1965 team trying to get a jump start on an invention to come about merely 6 years in the future.
Unfortunately, I don’t know enough about all the types of mainframes, terminals, etc that were around in the early-mid 1970’s to give you an answer. 
The hardware is mainly a matter of scale. They’ll need a long time to understand how the chips work at a very basic level, especially if they don’t want to break the thing they only have one of. Even if they destroy the machine to analyze it faster it would still take years of development to be able to use most of what they can learn.
Reverse engineering the software is much easier because they can work on that using slower computers as they go. For software all general purpose computers are at approximately the same level of complexity, and reverse engineering most of it will take years. Parallel development based on what’s learned from initial reverse engineering will exceed the reverse engineering effort before it’s completed.
There may be some advanced hardware that has massive parallel processing through many core cpus that could be called more advanced, but it’s really just multiplying the same type of components. Some of the techniques for constuction of the hardware and integration of the software might be useful though.
There are some advanced concept computers being experimented with including quantum computers, neural network computers, and biological computers, but these are still rudimentary examples of the technologies.
I miss the song of the modem.
I know a guy who was working at Livermore making bombs back then (or thenabouts; it’s a time travel story, after all). They would have had fun with it, but yeah, reverse-engineering a microchip would be a bitch.
Withdraw from Vietnam and not run again for President. Use the airbook as a doorstop.
Concur - these are both very interesting and productive things to do, but you can’t do both without two devices - in fact, supplying only one of them may ensure that neither thing happens - the single device gets locked away in a vault while everyone argues whether it’s best to try to use it or to take it apart.
It’s great. Left and and right click works like a traditional PC mouse but you can also swipe your fingers over it for various gesture commands.
You should get that sound file to play on boot up.
You do not need an internet connection to set up a new Apple computer.