Apple Macbook Air Core 2 Duo 1.6ghz 2GB 60GB AC AS IS - eBay (item 130265939597 end time Oct-30-08 20:52:16 PDT)

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Great MacBook Air eBay deal turns out to be prototype...
Published 11/18/2008 by Rob Beschizza at Boing Boing Gadgets
... at eBay turned out to be an engineering sample of some kind. This would be possible to fake, and he even suggests that he might have gotten a modded machine. But in a wonderful and convincing detail, the serial number encodes a May 2007 incept date. Either way, the thought that something like this could escape Apple's secretive innards is a myth-making par excellence. Let's see what the Genius Bar makes of it! Fake / Prototype Macbook Air [MacRumors] Auction Page [eBay]

Reseller sells early MacBook Air prototype on eBay
Published 11/18/2008 at AppleInsider
... Published: 06:30 PM EST A California computer repair shop is likely to receive a call from Apple asking it to explain where it obtained an internal MacBook Air prototype that it later turned around and sold on eBay for $730. The auction listing for an "as-is" version of the ultraportable gives virtually no clues as to who at Apple allowed the system off-campus and has seen the poster take its images offline. An image link embedded in the auction points to Pleasanton, California repair shop ...

Unidade de pré-produção do MacBook Air é encontrada à venda no eBay
Published 11/19/2008 by Silvio Sousa Cabral at BLOG.MACMAGAZINE
Um usuário dos fóruns do MacRumors encontrou no eBay um protótipo do primeiro MacBook Air, sendo vendido por US$730. Uma análise feita com o número de série encontrado no produto revelou que se trata realmente de um modelo construído pela Apple em maio de 2007. Segundo o comprador, ele roda um build de testes do Mac OS X Leopard (8R4016), possui um HD de 60GB e 2GB de memória RAM. A câmera iSight e as portas USB e Micro-DVI funcionam perfeitamente como no primeiro modelo — lançado apenas em janeiro desse ano —, mas a sua MagSafe é igual a dos demais portáteis da Apple, e não uma exclusiva, como nos ...