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.
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 than its predecessor. They are going to sell a lot of these. More info on the MacBook.
BoingBoing originally used the Media Event invitation sent out by Apple to do some seemingly “forensic” research, and assumed that the notebook pictured was an upcoming 13.3″ aluminum Macbook, not the Macbook Pro or Macbook Air. Apple will be holding a Special Media Event on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 at 10am PST at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California.
