Apple MacBook Knockoff For A Netbook Price

6:20AM August 25, 2009 | Joanna Stern

At first glance this MacBook knock off doesn’t look all that bad, but by picture three it looks like week-old garbage. According to the not very official picture caption, the “Macbook Mini” has the specs of a netbook.

It is powered by a good old 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and a 3-cell battery. No word on an OS, but let’s hope it is something that looks better than the SD card slot and ports on the right side of the chassis.

Frankly I’d rather the better smelling flowers it is pictured with and a decent Hackintoshed netbook. But it can be yours for $US2000 RMB (about AU$350) this September. [M.I.C. Gadget Flickr via micgadget.com]

Comments

Matt

August 25, 2009 at 9:06 AM

The real question is will it run Snow Leopard?

Alex

August 25, 2009 at 10:49 AM

Going by the keyboard, it’s obviously going to come installed with a variant of Windows. I’d guess (hope) Win7. Hopefully the motherboard & wifi play nice with Leopard

jj

August 25, 2009 at 1:04 PM

it may be pc garbage but they are giving us what we want looks wise, a mini macbook.

Jordan Comley

August 25, 2009 at 4:17 PM

Going to save up for one and get one at that price, but it looks so ugly! Looks like it’s made of plastic and is the BULKIEST netbook ever! I hope that’s not the final design!

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