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Mid-2007 Prototype MacBook Air Found on eBay
MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors —
MacRumors forum member Brett33 bought an "as is" MacBook Air on eBay for a selling price of $730. As it turns out, it appears the machine is actually a prototype model of Apple's MacBook Air. After receiving the unit, Brett33 noticed that the bottom of the laptop was made of black aluminum and that the screen bezel did not have "MacBook Air" written on it. The laptop runs an interim build of Mac OS X 10.5 (8R4016). ...
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 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 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 ...
