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Reseller sells early MacBook Air prototype on eBay
AppleInsider —
... primarily in fixing old computers and sits across the San Francisco Bay from Apple's Cupertino headquarters. The posting cautions buyers that the system has a malfunctioning hinge and minor blemishes on the outer shell, but says little to give away its preproduction status other than to claim that it carries a 60GB hard drive and uses Mac OS X Tiger, neither of which has ever shipped with a production MacBook Air. A curious contributor from MacRumors ' forums, however, chose to buy the system and has quickly discovered that the Air in question could only be a pre-production ...
See we weren't crazy! MacBook Air did come in Black!
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... A MacRumors forum member reports on a prototype that made it out to the real world a few years after it, or one of its brethren, were spotted by our spy. It is good to know that there was some more truth to that one, even over a year later. ...
MacBook Air Prototype Sold on Ebay
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... build of OS X 10.5 Leopard, rather than Tiger, but for someone who writes "The Hinge of the LCD is Losing", we can forgive the slip.
How did this mystery Mac make it out of the Cupertino campus? We don't know for sure, but MacRumors forum member brett33 is the buyer, and he's as mystified as everyone else. He's also aware that Apple may want it back:
The black vans haven't shown up yet, but I have heard helicopters circling.
Fake / Prototype Macbook Air [MacRumors Forums via Apple Insider] ...
Prototype Macbook Air from mid-2007 surfaces on eBay
Tech Digest —
... aluminium base and no 'Macbook Air' written on the bezel of the display. On further investigation, Brett discovered that it was a very early prototype of the device, built in May 2007. The laptop was running a build of OS X 10.5, and the device was produced six months before it was announced to the public. It's rather unusual to see one of these prototypes in the wild, given how secretive Apple is as a company. If I were Brett, I'd stick it straight back on eBay at double the price. Forum thread (via ...
Macbook Air Prototype Escapes Cupertino, Gets Sold on Ebay [MacBook Air]
Gizmodo —
... A Macforums member who bought an "as-is" Macbook Air from Ebay has ended up with some pretty strange fruit: It's actually an early Air prototype, bearing marks indicating it was built in May 2007, six months before the Air was introduced. It's got a few giveaways: the microphone positioning near the webcam is off, there's no keyboard lighting, no "MacBook Air" legend, it runs an interim build of OS X 10.5 and the bottom is black-colored aluminum, versus the usual shiny silver. Lord knows how this baby escaped Cupertino's clutches, but escape it did. Does this make it ...
Prototype MacBook Air found on eBay
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... "as is" on eBay, and when it showed up, he got something even more valuable than the envelope-filler: a prototype version. As you can see above, there's no "MacBook Air" nameplate under the monitor, and hardware inside is dated to May of 2007, which is way before Apple officially announced the machine. ...
MacBook Air Prototype Purchased on eBay
Tech Blog —
... recently picked up a MacBook Air on eBay for quite the deal, but didn't realize that it was a prototype model -- defined by red logic board. Click here for first picture in gallery.
It's got a few giveaways: the microphone positioning near the webcam is off, there's no keyboard lighting, no "MacBook Air" legend, it runs an interim build of OS X 10.5 and the bottom is black-colored aluminum, versus the usual shiny silver.
[via Gizmodo - Macrumors]
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MacBook Air prototype ends up on eBay, sells for $730
Infinite Loop —
... , as one MacRumors reader discovered when trying to find out how to fix the "as-is" MacBook Air he bought on eBay for just $730. After numerous MacRumors forum posters pored over details of the machine, it appears as if it is actually a MacBook Air prototype produced some eight months before the product's ...
