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MacBook Mini Photos Generate Speculation

There's no way that's legit. It looks WAY too much like (and specs are too similar to) the Macbook Air. It would decimate sales of the Air. No way in heck Apple would do that...
 
No ExpressCard. One can find $300 netbooks with ExpressCard, and add FireWire or whatever.
 
Totally fake.

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  1. "MacBook" and "mini" are slightly different font sizes.
  2. The text has no perspective, although the dock items do.

If the photos are fake, so is the machine.
 
4np said:
Fake, apple wouldn't install AdiumX and World Of Warcraft on a promotional laptop. Also, if they would really utilize the Atom processor to create a netbook kind of device I somehow think it would be running the multitouch OS X on a tablet kind of device instead of regular OS X on a shrunken MacBook. But that's just a hunch of course :)

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Well that settles it WOW in store??? They ban facebook just to let people play WOW?
 
If only it were true (apart from the price!). I have to clear out my AA account at work by the autumn or They will zero it, so I'm in the market for a netbook, Steve! Sadly, I don't think this is it - for a start, it's not in an elevator.
 
the pics themselves are more than likely fake, but I'm in agreement with others in this thread that "if" apple was to make a netbook, those would be the specs AND price of the machine. Apple making an 'affordable' netbook? Ha, that's a laugh. I don't seem them putting anything in the laptop category out that's significantly priced below the $1000 mark so a $899 sounds very realistic from them.

Also, they wouldn't be the first $1000 netbook. Sony has all ready taken that with the P series that just came out not too long ago.

Still, at $899, why not just get the $999 macbook with a better processor, bigger hard drive and larger screen resolution? Is shaving an extra pound or two REALLY that important when the macbook is all ready pretty light and you get a much more solid machine?

Then again, these are Apple products and if people could find a way to justify the ridiculous nature of the Macbook Air in all its limitations for the price, I'm sure those same people would justify owning this one too.
 
this looks pretty snazzy. well, if it happens, if it doesn't . . . well, whatever. to me the pics look like a MBA and seems to have pretty close specs for $1,000 less.

i guess i'm just glad to have other rumors to read than the microsoft ad. cripes that was a doozy of a thread!
 
apps!

has anyone even conisidered how much money they would potentially lose if they came out with this? It is more like apple to go for the highest over all profit... and i think they could achieve that with releasing a larger tablet device that has the iphone OS and sell it 500-700ish (maybe even subsidize it), and then connect it to the app store for MAJOR profit. especially with the premium app store ($20 and up apps). --they would lose a ton if they just decided to do another clone of the macbook and expect people to want a mac that is tiny and runs like molasses with the atom proc. Anyways just my thought.
 
Call me crazy, I believe it. Apple did as I through they would do, they didn't reduce the complete size of the keyboard, just the length of some keys. They removed just enough of those keys (primary functions keys: Space, ctrl, alt, cmd, shift) in addition with the complete removal of the eject key (make sense, no CD drive) to remove one complete row of keys. Personally, looking at the 2 second row, they would have been better to cut some length to the back space and make the 1 key the same size like the other. The bezel is also slightly bigger then the Macbook, which is part of the unibody design (tiny bezel on the 17'', acceptable on the 15'', big on the 13'', bigger on the mini).

I like it, just like I said the 1 key is not right.
 
It seems to have en excellent display panel. Viewing angle is superb. Much better than an ordinary TN panel.
 
Since Lauren discovered her HP is too heavy to haul around the producers give her the balance of her $1000 to find a netbook. Still not cool enough...
 
We're watching that space, but from our [point of view] the products are based on hardware that's much less powerful, software technology that's not good, cramped displays. We don't think that people are going to be pleased with those type of products. It's a category we watch, we have some ideas here, but we think the products there now are inferior and won't provide the kind of experience people want.

Tim Cook
 
notjustjay said:
The keyboard depicted is full-size layout. If indeed this product has a 10" screen, like the Asus netbook I'm typing on now, then those keys are going to be pretty tiny. Most netbooks use a combination of shrinking the physical key size down a bit as well as making some compromises with key layout to reduce wasted space.

$899 is pretty high, but sounds about right for Apple.
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It seems to have a substantial bezel which would allow for slightly larger keys (probably not full size, but near enough)

I'm sure it's a fake, but I like it, and would buy it if the price is right (i.e. about 100 less than claimed).
 
PeterQC said:
Call me crazy, I believe it. Apple did as I through they would do, they didn't reduce the complete size of the keyboard, just the length of some keys. They removed just enough of those keys (primary functions keys: Space, ctrl, alt, cmd, shift) in addition with the complete removal of the eject key (make sense, no CD drive) to remove one complete row of keys. Personally, looking at the 2 second row, they would have been better to cut some length to the back space and make the 1 key the same size like the other. The bezel is also slightly bigger then the Macbook, which is part of the unibody design (tiny bezel on the 17'', acceptable on the 15'', big on the 13'', bigger on the mini).
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My thoughts too on the keyboard. I also thought a smaller keyboard could be achieved by shrinking the widths of some keys.
 
No way...it would cannibalise MBA and probably even MacBook sales...unless it was priced at $5000 or even $900
 
Trexznl said:
Is it just me, or does it look like the screen would shut onto the keyboard? Which to me seems a bit silly as you'd get every bit of rubbish of your keyboard on your screen.
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My current unibody MB does this already when I close it... little oily squares all over the screen if I'm having a bad sweat day.
 
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