What would a new MacBook Mini look like? Is this real?

Cleve Nettles
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March 29, 2009
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Thanks to our Russian commenter meguxx, who passed along this little probably-Photoshopped - (but hopefully not) MacBook Mini.  Anyone with some Russian wanna break down the specs they list?  

Update: We've gotten many more picts here.

 

 Comrad Raleel says:

10.4" wxga display doing 1280x768, LED something (backlit I assume)
267x195x4 (millimeters one would assume)
19.4 mm (for what, I don't know)
1.03 of something
nvidia ION? nvidia mcp79, 533 MHz
intel atom z740, 1.83 Ghz, 1 meg l2 cache
2 gigs of ddr3-800 ram
geforce 9400M
64 gig ssd
bluetooth 2.1 + edr, 802.11a/b/g/n
1 usb, mini display port
5100 mA battery

....and remember April Fools is only a few days away...

Comments (138)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 2:19pm

See the enter key, its not at all what any other mac has

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 2:24pm

The enter key is exactly the same as on my recent macbook.

ulfoaf (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 3:06pm

Not the same on my American unibody macbook ... I am typing from it.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 3:35pm

this is not an american picture, look at the rest of the keyboard, remember there is a whole rest of the world out there

ulfoaf (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 10:00pm

It was bought through the American Apple website, hence it is American.
The Russian site does NOT show this type of keyboard.

www.apple.com/ru

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 30, 2009 - 3:15pm

Well if you think about it, those pics on Apple's Russian website aren't what the keyboard would look like. Why would someone who only speaks and writes russian want a QWERTY keyboard when it doesnt have characters from their language on it? I live in Hong Kong and the Macbooks they sell there have Chinese Characters on the Keys as well as the qwerty set. Obviously Apple cares about localization.

9to5Mac nowb (not verified) | March 31, 2009 - 3:36am

right,
almost every russian keyboard has cyrillic and latin, similar to japanese.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 10:44pm

Remember - this is VERY difficult for an American to imagine!

ulfoaf | March 30, 2009 - 6:38pm

I see no reason to insult nationalities here. Thanks for zero information.

Last I checked, the RETURN key was not part of any language. Sorry, you two jackasses, but European keyboards are not innate knowledge. In fact, when I was in Scotland and Norway on business, I do not recall anything unusual about the keyboards, but they were Dells. But maybe it was not a big enough deal to notice. The Norwegian ones had the Norwegian alphabet which you could access by some key sequence. Some of the Norwegians had Dell laptops with true Norwegian keyboards. The ones in Scotland seemed exactly the same.

You could have just identified where you were, and what keyboard you had. The discussion was whether this was a real image...

 

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 31, 2009 - 4:43am

Ouch! It's embarrassing to see you making such a fool of yourself. Some languages have more letters than the 26 in the English language. This requires additional keys, and a smaller return key. Who cares about Dell?

Lip Balm (not verified) | March 31, 2009 - 12:24pm

Are we arguing here?
THEY DID GIVE US TETRIS!!!! Let them have it!

Lip Balm (not verified) | March 31, 2009 - 12:25pm

Are we arguing here?
THEY DID GIVE US TETRIS!!!! Let them have it!

Norwegian sailor (not verified) | March 31, 2009 - 4:01pm

Hi,i'm from Norway and yes we have special Norwegian keyboards. On my macbook I got Æ Ø Å.. so we have Ø at the right side of L, then Æ next to Ø and right of P we got the Å.. look here : Norwegian Macbook keylayout

Slantsixx (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 3:40pm

Notice the funny little letters? Those are called Cyrillic letters. They're for people who don't speak American...

There are a lot of keyboard styles out there... even if there were only one style, i think a return key would be hardly a reliable way of telling whether or not a computer is real.

Chris (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 3:51pm

I believe the language is called English. not American.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 4:00pm

That's debatable. With how much our language has evolved through different dialects from the root english language, one could argue it's more "american" than english. At least it's the American dialect of the english language.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 4:59pm

you're an idiot. its english. you americans don't own the language - you just destroy it. kill yourself

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 5:30pm

your an idiot, buddy.

Josh Hawn (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 5:34pm

i'm not your buddy, friend!

Attk | March 29, 2009 - 5:47pm

 I'm not your friend, guy!

 

LOL! Great episode...

Josh Hawn (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 6:16pm

i'm not your guy, buddy!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 7:06pm

LOL keep going... please...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 7:48pm

I am not your buddy, friend!!!

Attk | March 31, 2009 - 2:14pm

 I'm not your fwiend, guy...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 31, 2009 - 4:04pm

im not your buddddyyy guuuuuuuy

Slantsixx (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 8:07pm

I'm sorry. I believe the word we're looking for is "you're."

9to5MacNoob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 8:18pm

Epic fail.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 8:41pm

"you're" is a contraction representing the phrase, "you are". "Your" is correct in this case

Grammar Nazi (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 9:35pm

I think the "your wrong" was what he was referring to...and not the "I'm not your buddy".

Sometimes I like to make sure I'm correct before I go all America all over everybody's a**es (to quote "It's Always Sunny")

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 29, 2009 - 9:24pm

wow, I had NO idea. your a genius!