“MacBooks will have black (perhaps other colors – we have only heard black) plastic outer shells. The same type of plastic that is on the backside of an iMac,” Cleve Nettles reports for 9 to 5 Mac.

“The inside shell, around the keyboard and the screen will be aluminum and that one piece structure will be the skeleton of the laptop,” Nettles reports.

“It will be two-tone,” Nettles reports. “Think if a iMac and a MacBook Air had offspring. Thinner than its predecessor. They are going to sell a lot of these.”

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