blog.wired.com - 10/2/2008
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If all of today's MSI Wind news wasn't enough for your, here's a MacBook Mini, fashioned by German hacker Florian. All it took was a dremel, six white LEDs and a very steady hand. Inside is a little less tidy, with tape and aluminum foil holding things in place and bouncing back a little ...
inquisitr.com - 10/9/2008
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inquisitr.com —
Tech : Duncan Riley Posted: October 8, 2008
Some Apple retailers in the United States have been...
given price lists for a new Apple laptop line, and there’s a big surprise: an $800 laptop. The information comes from a source we would categorize as ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Apple to launch $800 laptop
9to5mac.com - 10/4/2008
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9to5mac.com —
The MacBook Brick is a block of high-quality,
aircraft grade aluminum . It is the beginning. The...
beginning of what? It is the beginning of the new Apple manufacturing process to make MacBooks. It is totally revolutionary, a game changer. One of the ...
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The 'Brick' is...
macrumors.com - 10/9/2008
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macrumors.com —
An Apple.Pro blog has posted three small images
of what appear to be a new MacBook case....
The casing resembles the MacBook Pro case image leaked earlier today, but clearly represents a smaller screened laptop. Absent are the speake...
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More 'Brick' MacBook Case Images?
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MSI Wind Modded Into a 'MacBook Mini' Using LEDs, Tin Foil [Fakes]
Gizmodo —
... Ohmigod, it's a MacBook Mini! Oh, wait, no it's not. It's a cheap MSI Wind clone with a fake Mac backing on it, put together with dremel, six white LEDs, tape and aluminum foil. Impressive, but not quite what people have been waiting for. But hey, nice work nonetheless! I'm sure it works to fool people in coffee shops. [Gadget Lab] ...
MacBook Mini mod gives netbook mistaken identity
SlashGear —
... Obviously after cutting a hole in the lid of his netbook, he also had to cut out an identical Apple logo from frosted perspex to slot into it. Then, inside, there’s some nifty modding with aluminum foil and six white LEDs to properly illuminate things.
Perhaps the neatest part is the advert Florian created to go along with the MacBook Mini. Taking its cues from the MacBook Air ad, it shows the tiny netbook hack fitting in a much smaller envelope.
[via Wired]
Click here to view the embedded video. ...
MSI Modified Version Of Apple MacBook Mini
High Tech Lounge —
... the genius behind this creation. I guess he couldn’t wait for Cupertino to release something. We can’t see the screen from this picture, but I’m assuming that he hasn’t converted this into a Hackintosh yet. I know people who have converted other (Windows) laptops into Mac OS X-running MacBooks, so it’s not that far-fetched. Will Apple have a real MacBook Mini (or MacBook nano) for us this fall? I guess we’ll have to wait to find out. MSI Modified Version Of Apple MacBook Mini Source: blog.wired.com
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