http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html shows the OSX re-install disk as a USB thumb drive!

http://images.apple.com/macbookair/images/specs_flashdrive_20101020.jpg

WHY is 10% of all meeting and presentation productivity wasted on hooking the laptop up to the damn projector or plasma screen?

I don't understand why it's still so technologically challenging to sync a laptop with an external display, reliably and expediently. Mac's get this right more than windows machines do, but even they're a little sluggish at it.