Gizmodo is reporting that it's a wooden model?
http://gizmodo.com/5240279/apple-netbook-student-project-is-a-pencil+drawn-beauty
A few warning signs:
1. It's not aluminum.
2. The Apple logo looks odd.
The MacBook Air did not inspire me one bit, nor does it inspire me now.Have we not learned by now... if it doesn't FEEL right it ain't right. I could drone on @ specific aesthetic tell-tales, but we macheads have got to adopt a new M.O. when analyzing leaks... if it doesn't inspire, its not apple... and this is the least inspiring fraud i've seen in a very long time.
Hey guys,
here's the REAL story on the "fake netbook" you're looking at...
http://gizmodo.com/5240279/apple-netbook-student-project-is-a-pencil+drawn-beauty
I don't know whether this is fake or real.
I just want to remind you that a few months ago, a picture appeared featuring one of the new unibody MBP and it was also fake according to all of you. It was so obvious to all of you it was ugly and fake and bla, bla, bla. Of course many of those who said it was ugly, run to the store the minute it was released, because something ugly becomes pretty with a real Apple stamp on it.
Seriously, I don't see any obvious reason why this should be fake.
Do you really think that someone trying to fool everyone is gonna make the mistake of putting there a logo that looks odd?. I's probably an effect of the bad camera/ crappy light condition combination. Or, maybe, it is a fake, but don't speak so loud. You have been wrong in the past.
Saw something very odd last week.
Guy sitting in a cafe, by the window using a small 10" or under laptop. What was odd, is that it had a curved back, shiny black plastic with the Apple Logo smack bang in the middle. The curve to the lid looked akin to the iPhone back, but obviously larger.
Apple logo indeed looked lit, and I glanced at his screen and he was running OSX. He was deep in conversation on his phone, so I didn't bother him, and we were running out to catch a show.
But boy it looked different to what I've seen before, and first time I've ever seen anything that could even be considered a prototype out in the wild.
Few caveats though, he was in London (not well known for spying on Apple tech) and sitting in a cafe for all to see. He could be running his own hacked up machine also - or I could have had a extra-super-mega strength coffee and halucinated the whole thing.
Odd, and not saying I have anything confirmed/right or real - but thought I'd share 🙂