“An alleged insider at a third-party vendor is said by Wired to have fresh details on the rumored ‘MacBook Air’ sub-notebook just hours before its unveiling at Macworld San Francisco,” Aidan Malley reports for AppleInsider.
“In its description, the magazine’s Gadget Lab blog describes the lightweight notebook as teardrop-shaped when shut, thickening towards the hinge of the system but thinning near the edges — and remaining ‘unbelievably’ thin overall, according to the source,” Malley reports.
“The system, according to the source, shares the same aluminum and glass construction of the iMac with black accents on a silver frame,” Malley reports.
More info, and larger images, in the full article here.
Someone is suicidal if this is not fake.
no ethernet port? no CD ROM?
hmmm.
That thing is thinner than Kate Moss. Does it double as a steak knife?
Looks like a bloody Sony Vaio Laptop!!!!!!!!! I pray that is NOT IT!
cmon guys…that’s a TIGER screenshot. ALSO, you can find that pic over at wired.com and they admit it’s a photoshop they put together BASED on info they have received from a 3rd party vendor. Go look for yourself if you don’t beleive me:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01/breaking-macboo.html
These were reported as Photoshopped ideas, not real, on Wired or something. They were not claimed to be real.
This is only supposed to be a mock-up, not a leaked spy image. Plus, the image shows it running Tiger so that right there shows it’s nothing to really take too seriously.
something is likely in the “air.” That illustration just does not seem like the real thing. Not cool enough. Too thin to be real. No Ethernet port? Why? The real areas of interest, track pad, optical drive or not, are not revealed. Looks to be simply another attention grabber.
The caption of the image clearly states “Mock Up”
Tony
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you threw our chorus off a bit. Try to come in on time ……
Here in Germany ethernet is the internet connection, if you’ve got a cable connection, that is.
Is that not the case in the U.S.?
Yeah Tony please focus. Now one more time….
Gavron,
Don’t confuse networking with the Internet. Your cable modem connects to your router or computer using Ethernet but that doesn’t mean the Ethernet connection “is the Internet”. And yes, Ethernet is a standard and is used in North America.
Isn’t Ethernet unnecessary if you’re sporting a super terrific, ultra-modern wireless connection? Maybe something that rhymes with “why macs”?
No in the US we use telepathic transmission for all data stream. None of this T3, 3G, DSL nonsense around here.
Gavron has a point though. As laptops get thinner, Apple may resort to some adaptor cable for their connectors. DVI and Ethernet are the thickest ports on my poor aging PB G4.
why macs is certainly better than squirt. Either someone at M$ has some bizarre humor or they are just stupid. No wait a minute – they’re just stupid.
Holy crap! An anonymous inside source has just posted pictures of the new all-in-one machine that Steve Jobs is going to release today at MacWorld. You can see the pics here if you hurry:
http://tinyurl.com/2or7bs
You can see that the screen is unlike any that are on the current Macs, and the application running shows that developers have obviously already had access to this machine! Fantastic!
I cannot remember when was the last time I used Ethernet on any of my Macs. This means at least last four years. That includes my desktop 20″ iMac (and its predecessor, 17″ G5 model). Wireless home routers have been selling for below $30 US for the past at least four years. Why would anyone want to bother will all those cables? Not to mention anyone out there who is married knows very well the benefits of wireless (i.e. lack of cables) for his marriage.
I’m not even sure Ethernet ports on my current CoreDuo Mac (and C2D MB) even work!
While Ethernet may be the connection that brings the Internet into our homes, Airport is definitely becoming the connection of choice that takes that internet from our Cable/DSL/WiMax/Satellite modems to our Macs.
As for Windows users, I have no idea. They just might want to save and, in the spirit of Windows thinking, accept the “good enough” solution, which is the Ethernet cable.
Get with it everyone.
Air = wireless, as in ‘no wires’
be wireless
be free
I want one, so I sure hope the screen in glossy!
Thanks Jimbo. That screen shot just made my day. Also kind of made me nostalgic for my old Mac Plus only with color and current speeds and able to use more than 4MBs of RAM.
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Watch, nothing will be said today about any thing even remotely resembling a ‘sub-notebook’. LOL! That’ll show ya! 😀
Something in the Air = B E A T L E S
Who knows if the rumor is true, but the mockup stinks. It’s just an aluminum keyboard with an iMac, photoshopped to fit together.
Apple Air is so fresh and clean…