A very good mockup of a MacBook Air

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 7:16am — Quincy Pince-Nez

We think this is very close to what will come on Tuesday - perhaps a bit darker and less iMac-y and we are getting somewhere. Flickr user Superfunny. Has anyone else seen any good mockups?

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i'd buy one or two

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 7:22am — thinkingdog (not verified)

i'd buy one or two

I love the freakishly small

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 7:46am — Anonymous Coward (not verified)

I love the freakishly small trackpad.

Think that last comment hits

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 8:05am — Ben (not verified)

Think that last comment hits the nail on the head.

I can see the press now: Apple launches ultra-slim notebook with unusable trackpad. Stock prices fall 10%. Entire Reality Distortion Field under threat - for several seconds entire world sees Job's real 700 year old wizened body... etc etc

oh is there a trackpad on

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 8:11am — admin

oh is there a trackpad on there? nevermind then :P

Trackpad? We don't need no

Tue, 01/15/2008 - 6:42am — Dwight_ (not verified)

Trackpad? We don't need no stinking trackpad!

That'd be interesting. But surely they'd have an eraser stub for notebook mode? It'd suck to need a mouse for effective use as a notebook (and no, pointing at a screen does not equate to effective, that gets tiring very fast from holding your hand out).

What the heck kind of hinge

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 8:22am — Anonymous Coward (not verified)

What the heck kind of hinge is that?

And what about new Macbook

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 8:23am — Anonymous Coward (not verified)

And what about new Macbook pro? (or at least some facelift).... :(

hi, did anyone notice the

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 8:29am — TTTV (not verified)

hi, did anyone notice the new color of the apple packaging?...they are not black anymore...bleu/grey-ish...

Right.... This is just

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 8:38am — Anonymous Coward you know me! (not verified)

Right....

This is just stupid... I saw anotherone at some rumor site called the mac nano and that one looked real!

Pretty cool, but the hinge

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 8:43am — Anonymous Coward (not verified)

Pretty cool, but the hinge seems to bulky.

This would be awesome, beacause I

could just use Back To My Mac with

my home computer (if I can get it working)

and wouldn't need to worry about hard drive size.

This would also be great for having at Macworld

or other keynotes, because you could do liveblogging

w/o having a big laptop to carry around.

I need this.

I think the first one on

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 9:02am — Anonymous Coward (not verified)

I think the first one on this is cool...
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/05/thin-macbook-laptop-concept-images/

But this one's even better...
http://www.applesfera.com/2007/12/30-el-nuevo-macbook-pro-imaginado-por-...

And if I got my wish...
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/mock-up/apple-macbook-touch-concept-and-thoug...

is it just me or is there no

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 9:03am — Anonymous Coward (not verified)

is it just me or is there no on button?

I made this

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 9:43am — John Ellenich (not verified)

I made this one...

http://homepage.mac.com/ellenich/.Pictures/MacBookmini.jpg

Nice work!

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 10:04am — admin

Nice work!

well~ you guys DID say there

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 9:45am — Anonymous Cowherd (not verified)

well~ you guys DID say there was something strange about the touchpad. we all just assumed that meant bigger / wider; rather than just large enough for Stuart Little to use :-/

here's looking forward to tomorrow anyways. been putting off the new Mac portable purchase for far too long as is.

There will be NO trackpad.

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 10:53am — Orng (not verified)

There will be NO trackpad.

At least, when I guessed in the comments on this site before Christmas that there would be no trackpad based on 9to5's various cryptic posts on the topic, Admin replied with a confirmation.

So yeah, guess big or small, I'm sticking with NONE.

Touch my Macbook! Love him! Touch him!

Is anyone else silently

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 11:52am — Guber Mc Guberson (not verified)

Is anyone else silently ashamed of themselves for being pathetically excited, like childhood christmas eve, about tomorrow? I have no-one around to share this pathetic fetish with- sure I have mac geek friends but it feels wrong to call them to trade predictions- is it wrong? Really? Can I? I would love it if there is no rim around the screen, no moving parts and it had inductive charging and easy syncing to home mac.

I need help.

Yeah...its sad but this is

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 12:05pm — admin

Yeah...its sad but this is our support group. We all need help!

I am hoping for wimax and most of this

Where is the trackpad??...or

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 11:56am — Anonymous iDario (not verified)

Where is the trackpad??...or is used only for the dock icons???:P

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Mon, 01/14/2008 - 12:06pm — Anonymous Coward (not verified)

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If apple were to do

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 12:19pm — Just_a_guy (not verified)

If apple were to do anything, it would keep the clamshell design but would make the bottom half be a huge multi-touch screen, that could act as anything you want such as the keyboard, to act as a tablet PC (the top screen could fold all the way to the back (fits neatly on the back of the computer), or even act as your controls for the cockpit of an airplane, all with multitouch....

i don't understand why

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 12:38pm — cameron brown (not verified)

i don't understand why everyone feels it has to be a tablet OR a perfectly normal ultra-portable. I really think a convertible tablet is the way to go in apple's case. It would reach a larger audience than a tablet would, and it could attract both business and consumer customers alike. (business guys for convenience, consumers for its media capabilities and "cool factor". Yep, my money's on a Macbook Air convertible tablet for around 1700 bucks...

I agree with just a guy. I

Mon, 01/14/2008 - 1:14pm — Matthew (not verified)

I agree with just a guy. I think it'd be stupid for apple to release a slightly thinner macbook with a nicer screen as a whole new line. People don't seem to realize that this machine would kill the macbook...this looks like an improved macbook to me, not a new machine and definitely not a new line. I say we will be introduced to a laptop with an entirely new touch interface, probably a convertible tablet if i had to guess or an apple spin on the convertible tablet. I honestly don't even think that "air" will have anything to do with the laptop being launched, I attribute the "something in the air" to some sort of wimax project. I say that "something in the air" is internet access, not an obscure reference to the lack of weight on a new notebook. Everyone has totally gone berserk running with this macbook air concept, aside from the fact that it sounds a little stupid for apple, it just makes no sense to me why they would release that product and use an ad like that for it. This reminds me of the hideous iPhone mockups we all saw for a month before macworld. Apple will out design all of us, thats why they work for apple and why we are all watching them.