It goes by many names: Air Light, MacBook Mini, Baby Apple, Chupacabra. But someone claims to have photographed one of these elusive creatures and, predictably, sent the evidence to Cult of Mac. It comes from a “trusted contributor” and they say they have more but they need time to “process” them. Sounds vaguely sinister.
As for the veracity of the photo, we can’t really say. It’s the right size for a netbook-type device, but Apple has repeatedly said they’re not interested in that size and spec. Doesn’t give a good OS X experience. Well, maybe they found a way to squeeze more into less, and changed their minds about making that sucker. The question is, who at Apple, involved in the development of the device, would set it next to a ruler and take a well-composed photo? It’s totally not the standard Apple leak. But we’ll see. it’s wood.
Commenter George reminds me: yes, that logo is weird, but we don’t know that it isn’t a placeholder they have internally before they put in a lit one.
Update: HA! It’s a wooden model. I thought it looked awful MacBook-y. There’s more from the guy who made it, Kyle Buckner, at Giz’s gallery. Hey, you can’t blame me for trying to breathe some life into it, can you? “Trusted contributor” indeed.
[via MacRumors]
That logo…. Not real.
Its ugly as sin, therefore fake. Unless they’re aiming for a $199 model, then I might believe it. But not really. Its definitely fake.
I would expect an Apple Netbook to be very Macbook Air-ish.
I think it looks thicker than it is. Remember, it’s only 9 inches across, I’d put it at about 0.8 in thick.
As fake as fake Steve Jobs
Yawn, why are you posting this? Cult of Mac is not known as a rumor site
http://gizmodo.com/5240279/apple-netbook-student-project-is-a-pencil+drawn-beauty
That’s not even a plausible attempt at a fake, much less the real thing. Things like this are why people hate Apple rumors.
Apparently, it’s some student’s wooden model. At least it is pretty though; there are some nice pencil drawings on the inside
http://gizmodo.com/5240279/apple-netbook-student-project-is-a-pencil+drawn-beauty
nice info :)
yeadhi
xD
At first looking at the picture next to the ruler it looks realistic but slightly off. I would’ve believed it had I not seen the pencil drawn keyboard and screen.
NO!!!