"Doctors work to help Giffords' brain rewire itself"

Article here.  The piece begins:

Compared to a sleek new laptop, that three-pound mass of fatty tissue called the brain may not look like much. But when it's injured, it adapts and rewires its circuits in new ways.

That's the kind of flexibility that doctors and rehabilitation specialists hope to encourage in Gabrielle Giffords, the brain-injured Arizona congresswoman.

I find the first two sentences amusing.  First, would neuroscientists describe the brain as a mass of fatty tissue?  Second, the article suggests that we tend to think our brains are second-rate relative to "a sleek new laptop."  Is this just a peculiar introduction to an article or do people really think that way about computers and human brains?  I would think that we're still far more in awe of our versatile brains than our laptop computers. 

Let's see how tonight's Jeopardy! matchup affects public opinion...