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Fake / Prototype Macbook Air
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I call it fake! This is definitely done in PhotoShop-job. There is no way Apple would release a computer this thin, people.
Lol
Wow, nice catch I would put it back on ebay but state its a pre production model, just say a number and someone will pay, haha. Big cash in this one for you!
GSX say "The serial # you entered is not valid. Please enter the serial # as it appears on the customer's unit."
Actually, sorry, but I can't buy it. I wouldn't want to get caught up if it was stolen etc...
I didn't know eBay sold stolen goods...
I have to admit, this is pretty cool. I wonder if there is a way to track where it has been since it was made???
GSX.Apple.Com
He looked it up using GCRM an Apple internal database. GSX will not show pre-production serial Numbers. Sweet find thou
He looked it up using GCRM an Apple internal database. GSX will not show pre-production serial Numbers. Sweet find thou
dude
don't bother bringing it to the Apple store, the genuises will just nerd out about it (like we all are right now!) and then tell you you're a lucky man and send you on your way.
Hang onto it for a while, find a die-hard apple collector, and pay your tuition bill with the proceeds.
don't bother bringing it to the Apple store, the genuises will just nerd out about it (like we all are right now!) and then tell you you're a lucky man and send you on your way.
Hang onto it for a while, find a die-hard apple collector, and pay your tuition bill with the proceeds.
GIMME!!! GimmE!! Gimme! gimme..... please..?
Someone... anyone..?
The Developer Transition Kits were all leased, not sold. At the end of the lease, developers were required to send them back to Apple. To encourage/entice them to do so, they were offered a free release iMac Core Duo when they returned the kit.
As the iMac was worth more than the $999 paid to get the Transition Kit, and the agreement said all along that the units were to be returned, pretty much every developer did so. I'm sure there are one or two that a developer had the balls to say 'broke' and not return; and some larger developers that got multiple kits (Microsoft, Adobe, etc,) may have been allowed to dispose of them rather than send back to Apple; so there are probably a couple floating around. But as they were never the legal property of the developers, a dev would be stupid to try to sell it in the open.
Contrast that to prototypes of production systems. Apple has been known to give such prototypes to employees before, (after the release of the real product,) with no strings attached. So prototypes CAN be legally found.
dude
don't bother bringing it to the Apple store, the genuises will just nerd out about it (like we all are right now!) and then tell you you're a lucky man and send you on your way.
Hang onto it for a while, find a die-hard apple collector, and pay your tuition bill with the proceeds.
Yes, protos are definitely collectible.
What you can do is gather as much documentation about it as possible, all printed out...
If you can get a testimony from a MBA developer, you'll have a diamond in the rough!
I worked at a Computer Renaissance once and someone brought in an old Mac Powerbook laptop.
On the bottom it didn't have the normal "Powerbook 500" name, it was labeled "Blackbird" which was the codename for that model during development.
I wish I had the foresight to pick it up, but I was a poor high school student back then and it probably wouldn't have been worth much until now.
On the bottom it didn't have the normal "Powerbook 500" name, it was labeled "Blackbird" which was the codename for that model during development.
I wish I had the foresight to pick it up, but I was a poor high school student back then and it probably wouldn't have been worth much until now.
I've often wondered whether there are any sort of issues, legal or otherwise, regarding selling prototypes. I have several Intel prototype wireless web tablets from 2002. A relative of mine works for the company, and they were sitting outside by an Intel dumpster one day, so he took them home. They boot up into MS-DOS, and then there's an initialization routine you're supposed to run, but it doesn't work. I did some research and learned that fully functioning versions of this particular prototype were never created. The project was terminated because of budget cuts, although the product was supposed to go on sale a few months later, and was demonstrated in a Street of Dreams "Intel smart home" show house. The wireless technology used was supplanted by 802.11b, so they soon would have been obsolete, anyway. I don't know whether the tablets have collector value, but it would be easy enough to check. My concern was whether Intel has people who look for prototypes like this on sale, and I didn't want to get my relative in trouble, because it wouldn't be difficult to connect us.
We kept ours for a while (I actually thought we still had it, but I checked and we did return it once they threatened to charge us for it). The thing wasn't that great, since there were very few updates for it and being the only BIOS Intel Mac it didn't run anything past the early 10.4.x builds it came with. It sat there unused for the longest time once the real Intel iMacs came out. Free functioning iMac would have enticed me to send it back too.
Yes, but is the drive a solid-state drive or standard hard drive? That's the question. It's the same form-factor as the iPods, so a 40GB could be a HD, or a SSD.
Just walk into the store, no macbook in hand, and do a feeler. The good ole' "I know a guy with..." should work. Feel them out, wait and see what happens.
Well, you're part right. They have to prove it. Meaning the cops have to be involved, and they have to prove it was stolen, etc. They cannot (themselves) simply steal it back because they believe it's theirs. They do not have the authority to do so. If they did we'd have chaos with people taking the law into their own hands.