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Prototype 3G MacBook Pro Actually had a 'MagSafe' Antenna
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Now nobody should complain about the price of current pros, did you not just see the price of the old outdated pro? 
Woah!
I had dream and a laptop just like that was on a table, must have been something like 4 - 5 years ago though. If my latent psychic powers keep developing I might be able to give you guys a heads up on the new products
Also to the owner, sell it through a private auction.
I had dream and a laptop just like that was on a table, must have been something like 4 - 5 years ago though. If my latent psychic powers keep developing I might be able to give you guys a heads up on the new products
Also to the owner, sell it through a private auction.
yup, and also via bluetooth, but it's still a hassle to get you phone out of your pocket to connect the two.(if the two were constantly connected all right, but your battery-life would suffer. Imagine opening your macbook and viola, there's internet, wherever your are.
I like where they make this statement...
"The antenna may exhibit improved transmission and reception efficiencies when the antenna is placed in an extended position away from the conductive housing "
Was this not precisely the 'antenna-gate' issue with the original release of the iPhone 4? They knew this back in 2008?
"The antenna may exhibit improved transmission and reception efficiencies when the antenna is placed in an extended position away from the conductive housing "
Was this not precisely the 'antenna-gate' issue with the original release of the iPhone 4? They knew this back in 2008?
On the subject of it being 'stolen' for that to work they'd have to prove it was actually stolen and still their property, rather than just being a thrown out prototype wouldn't they? Since I doubt they have room to keep all of their old prototypes, they'd still had an interest in keeping the product. This is a prototype of a product that was speculated upon and never came out. It's not like the iPhone 4 prototype where it can be reasonably assumed that it was lost on a field test: a computer like this is too conspicuous to take out of the lab on a daily run and there's no reason to lose it.
If this is a legitimate apple prototype and assuming for the sake of argument, he doesn't supply any software, the D.M.C.A. takedown is a somewhat ridiculous abuse of copyright law for the sole purpose of ease of censorship. I don't really see any infringement happening so long as there's no licensing violations (there would logically be no license to violate for abandoned product) especially since section 109 allows the transfer of physical goods. Now if it's a fake or if there is software, that's another story....
If this is a legitimate apple prototype and assuming for the sake of argument, he doesn't supply any software, the D.M.C.A. takedown is a somewhat ridiculous abuse of copyright law for the sole purpose of ease of censorship. I don't really see any infringement happening so long as there's no licensing violations (there would logically be no license to violate for abandoned product) especially since section 109 allows the transfer of physical goods. Now if it's a fake or if there is software, that's another story....