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Boingboing has it wrong...regular MacBooks will have plastic shells, not aluminum
Boingboing has it wrong...regular MacBooks will have plastic shells, not aluminum
Boingboing (and others) did some analysis on the aluminum laptop in the Apple event invitation and concluded it was a regular MacBook.  It wasn't.  MacBooks will have black (perhaps other colors - we have only heard black) plastic outer shells.  The same type of plastic ...
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Boingboing has it wrong...regular MacBooks will have plastic shells, not aluminum
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Boingboing (and others) did some analysis on the aluminum laptop in the Apple event invitation and concluded it was a regular MacBook.  It wasn't.  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.  The inside shell, around the keyboard and the screen will be aluminum and that one piece structure will be the skeleton of the laptop.   It will be two-tone.  Think if a iMac and a MacBook Air had offspring.  Thinner ...

Macbooks to Be Two-Tone, Plastic and Aluminum?
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — Seth Weintraub from 9to5Mac claims that BoingBoing is wrong in their prediction that Apple’s recent Media event invitation shows an image of a 13.3″ Aluminum Macbook. On October 1st, we reported about some alleged leaked, blurry spy-shots that anonymously came in. The images depicted a two-tone Apple notebook, accompanied by a mockup of a two-tone Macbook Pro. While the images were originally dismissed as fake, according to 9to5Mac, they might be most accurate to what Apple will actually unveil. ...

Two-Tone MacBooks and a Questionable MacBook Video
MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors — With only four days until Apple's "notebook" media event, the rumor mill continues to ramp up. 9to5mac claims that the laptop pictured on Apple's event invitation does not represent the new MacBook. Instead, they believe that the new MacBook will retain an outer plastic design while incorporating an aluminum inner frame. They describe the final product as "two tone" and expect the new MacBook to come in black at a minimum. Meanwhile, we're confused by the antics of taiwanese site Apple.pro . The site has been the source of multiple case images claiming to be the MacBook Pro and MacBook . The ...

RUMOR: Apple’s next-gen MacBook to be two-tone: aluminum and polycarbonate
MacDailyNews — ... 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." Full article here .

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