Appletell

We’ve heard the whiners. We’ve heard all the people making fun. “No Ethernet port?“ “No optical drive?“ “Only one USB port?“ “No FIREWIRE??“ Well, flickr user nybras.rodrigo has heard your pleas. The solution is something he likes to call the MacBook Aircraft. Three USB ports, three FireWire 400 ports, and two FireWire 800 ports.  You also get a full DVI port, built-in iPod Shuffle and Ethernet port. Of course the computer comes with all the necessities such as a floppy drive for those 1.44MB disk drives and a Superdrive. However, no matter how awesome this Aircraft looks, it’s just not going to do it for me. I mean, come on, where on earth is the modem port for dial-up??

Via [Flickr]

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Everything went a little crazy Monday night after someone found out that MacBookAir.com redirected to http://www.apple.com/?Will+We+see+a+MacBookAir+on+Tuesday?

It turns out that MacBookAir.com had been registered by Arn of MacRumors. He cleared that up in a post at the MacRumors forums and then in this post on the Macworld page of Mac Rumors:

This redirection is not an endorsement by Apple itself. Anyone can redirect any domain (they have control of) to any other domain and add a “query string” (?text). You can change it to whatever you want, and this query is passed to the web server. In this case, Apple.com ignores the query.[...]And besides, MacBookAir.com isn’t registered by Apple… it was registered by us. If Apple decides to use the MacBook Air name, they are welcome to the domain.

In addition to that, more MacBook Air news out of Wired this time: Wired has posted a mockup of what the MacBook Air will look like (see the top of this post.) It is “unbelievably thin” and has a tapered appearance, being thicker towards the hinge and thinner towards the palm-rest. Wired is not usually a Mac rumors poster, so it stands to reason that they are fairly confident in this mockup.

Via [Mac Rumors, Wired]

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Let’s start with the newest rumor to the game: the iMac-like docking station. Here, flickr user macbooktouchmebaby has posted his/her mockup of the MacBook Nano and the Docking Station. MacBooktouchmebaby shows the MacBook as a tablet, though if it were in fact a tablet it is more likely that the tablet’s screen would serve as the desktop screen as well, with the iMac shell as more of a holder.

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