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Woohoo, clear-case Lombard prototype!

vollspacken

vollspacken

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well, you might have seen the infamous "clear SE prototype" somewhere on the web (uhg, I forgot where and I'm too lazy to do a search now...), or the "clear classic proto" that was posted two weeks ago or so...

o.k., here's another one straight from http://www.applefritter.com, a clear Powerbook G3 Lombard... you might not be able to see as much of the innards as in the two compact Macs (hey, it's way more crammed in that 'book, isn't it...), but it still looks funkee..!

vSpacken
 
A few months ago there was a guy on Yahoo! Auctions Japan trying to sell what was supposed to be a prototype Newton MP with a clear case ... but in Japan there are so many mods, who could tell if it was real or not?

This thing *is* real, right? (Sorry, too lazy to read things over)
 
apple should make a clear mac....everythink is more exiting when you can see through it ;)
 
I knew a girl who has/had a clear plastic Powerbook G3... she is working at Industrial Light&Magic and got the case from a friend who's a product designer at Apple... apparently they use clear cases when designing new products to see how everything fits together.

This auction was by a different girl, though.

Now what would be really cool is a clear plastic iMac G3. Oh, wait... :)
 
Must be a fairly late prototype, as it looks quite well finished. Most laptop prototypes look quite a bit more rough. I remember seeing the early TiBook hardware, came in a clear plastic box the size of a large phonebook. It was pretty astonishing to see how slim the final product was, by comparison!
 
look!
clear_portable.jpg
clear_portable_front.jpg
Portables are my hero.
 
to whoever asked about clear newtons: i don't know if they're production or mod either (they look too good to be mod), but they're not terribly rare, at least when i was still using newtons there were always a handful of them on eBay... wanted one, but never wanted to pay extra for something like that.

paul
 
Wasn't the Cube clear? And so often people would complain of minor imperfections in the molding process (that showed up so much more visibly in a clear case). I agree, it would be nifty to have though.
 
WOW! Cool my freind from Italy bought them. I just sold a Newton 2100 Prototype and I still have a Apple PRO Mouse PROTOTYPE... I'll be puting it up for auction soon NEED Cash:(. All rare stuff goes for a 2 Network Servers. As for the Clear Prottype Newton the EVT's were clear and the DVT's were not the EVT (Enginerring Verifaction Test) and Development Verifaction Tests are differnt). EVT was first secont was the DVT. Like I said I'v got a EVT Pro Mouse and a DVT Newton, and somewhere a IIe DVT.
 
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