The should have given you a new one
I don't know, I don't think the OP asked for a newer one, and he's still the one gaining out of it. I don't think Apple is going to sell the prototype and make money out of the thing
Cheers, OP!
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Fake / Prototype Macbook Air
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I don't know, I don't think the OP asked for a newer one, and he's still the one gaining out of it. I don't think Apple is going to sell the prototype and make money out of the thing
Cheers, OP!
The should have given you a new one
I have to agree but with Brett's good attitude this is not the only good deal he will get.
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im glad everything ended well for breet , and apple procede very well .
im glad everything ended well for breet , and apple procede very well .
*Now on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200278121944
I recently picked up a used Macbook Air 1.6
The bottom case is black without any markings on it.
Computer does boot up, but the battery has swollen and distorted the case. I removed the bottom of the case and pulled the battery with thoughts of purchasing a replacement battery. When looking at the connections they are different from the disassembly pictures on the web, and then most of the other internals are slightly different than on the various disassembly sites as well.
(Sorry for the relatively bad photos)
As you can see it looks very similar to the disassembly photos on the web, but it does not look exactly like them. The main board does have "Apple" stamped on it.
Just wondering what exactly is going on.
Thoughts?
when was this one made? looks nothing like the inside of mine...looks absolutley fake
update: seams like u found a gem...lol
I doubt the OP still reads any of this but I just wanted to say that this was an excellent thread that gave me plenty of amusement as I read the whole thing many months after all the updates had long since subsided. And thanks to MacRumors for posting a link to this thread so those of us who missed it had the chance to experience the same enjoyment as those who followed along as it happened. Now I'm wondering if there is a "Best of MacRumors" thread somewhere.
The red motherboard suggests it's a prototype, all known apple prototypes have red motherboards.
The red motherboard suggests it's a prototype, all known apple prototypes have red motherboards.
Thanks for the info but just did you realize this is an old thread?
First, yes, i do realize this is an old thread. But i just wanna say this.
I just got something similar. Except its a fake/prototype 2010/2011 model.
-> https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1556295/
Now on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200278121944
I recently picked up a used Macbook Air 1.6
The bottom case is black without any markings on it.
Computer does boot up, but the battery has swollen and distorted the case. I removed the bottom of the case and pulled the battery with thoughts of purchasing a replacement battery. When looking at the connections they are different from the disassembly pictures on the web, and then most of the other internals are slightly different than on the various disassembly sites as well.
(Sorry for the relatively bad photos)
As you can see it looks very similar to the disassembly photos on the web, but it does not look exactly like them. The main board does have "Apple" stamped on it.
Just wondering what exactly is going on.
Thoughts?
Hey Mate, Do you still have this MacBook Air?
going to Necro this thread, simply because I have to ask, does anyone know if the OP or anyone else managed to make an image of the hard drive of this prototype MacBook Air? not just for preservation sake, but also because given this prototype runs tiger it may well contain GMA X3100 drivers compiled for tiger, which would be Awesome for anyone wanting to run Tiger on a production MacBookAir1,1 or MacBook3,1/MacBook4,1, for those machines *can* boot a normal 10.4.11 tiger install, but critically there are no drivers for the GMA X3100 iGPU so its completely unaccelerated, so I have often wondered about the build on this Prototype MacBook Air and if it was ever saved?