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1. Mahangu

   March 1st, 2006 at 11:07 am

   Definitely looks like an i/powerbook. :)

2. John Oxton

   March 1st, 2006 at 3:46 pm

   Yup, that looks like my iBook alright! ;D

3. Hayo Bethlehem

   March 1st, 2006 at 3:54 pm

   Hahah, maybe this means Windows for Mac will be released soon ;)

4. Ben Ward

   March 1st, 2006 at 5:33 pm

   Aha, that’s very good. I like it.

   Hayo: “Windows for Mac” is called Vista, since that will support the BIOS-replacing EFI boot-thingamy.

5. Johan DeSilva

   March 1st, 2006 at 5:49 pm

   i/powerbook is slightly slimmer? Looks more like an Acer to me!

6. Matt Robin

   March 1st, 2006 at 7:00 pm

   Why? Because it’s white?!

   It’s too chunky to be a mac laptop…it looks more like a stylised Thinkpad. ;)

7. Veracon

   March 1st, 2006 at 7:53 pm

   While I’m not a fan of either of the companies, I think this is great if it was intended. I always love seeing to giants working together.

8. Marcello

   March 1st, 2006 at 8:24 pm

   That is a Dell laptop that is vectrized and stylized to look white. It is probably an image from a stock photo site.

9. Prabhath

   March 1st, 2006 at 8:32 pm

   Oh com’on guys, thinkpads and Dells don’t open as drawn in the illustration. Macs are the only laptops I’ve seen where the screen folds like that.

10. Vlad

    March 1st, 2006 at 9:02 pm

    That definitely looks like a Dell Inspiron. But who cares anyway?

11. Tyson Tate

    March 1st, 2006 at 9:30 pm

    Dells don’t use Apple’s hinge design that pulls the screen back and down when you open it.

12. M_333

    March 1st, 2006 at 9:41 pm

    Some people have too much time on their hands. Who really cares enough to argue the point either way?

13. Prabhath

    March 1st, 2006 at 9:46 pm

    M_333, we’re not arguing about laptops here. We’re talking about the fate of the world :P

14. Sebhelyesfarku

    March 1st, 2006 at 10:29 pm

    This is a Macuser falling to sleep from Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field.

15. Ben Ward

    March 2nd, 2006 at 12:38 am

    Whilst I completely agree that getting into anything close to an argument about this is very, very silly… I will point out that the look+dimensions are extremely close to the 12″ iBook sat to my right. The picture is marginally chunkier, but well inside the reasonable realms of artistic license.

    Now if people would just take it at the face value of “Ha Ha, it looks like an iBook!”, God can stop killing kittens.

16. Leopold Porkstacker

    March 2nd, 2006 at 1:14 am

    I’m not surprised since a lot of designers and illustrators still use Macs for their work, and injecting the obligatory “hidden” (to the otherwise clueless) Mac reference is expected.

    Oh, and Powerbooks make nice heated pillows.

    -he who stacks pork

17. Bill Gates

    March 2nd, 2006 at 3:18 am

    I love Apple!

18. Brock

    March 9th, 2006 at 2:45 pm

    Lovely :)

19. Chamil

    March 11th, 2006 at 11:45 am

    Well it looks a _lot_ like the iBook _not_ a powerbook. And Vista people anounced that they are not supporting EFI stuff. So no luck there. But I read some where that some guys are working it.

    BTW what are u doing on the MSN site huh :P

20. serendib_isle

    June 13th, 2006 at 11:00 am

    Well guys,

    Just a few weeks after your comments above (end March) Apple released “Booot Camp” (beta) that enables the Mac to run Microsoft Windows XP as a native operating system. So you could startup your Mac as a Mac or a PC (Windows).

    See details at: http://www.apple.com/getamac/windows.html

    We have, in Colombo, run most memory intensive PC games and various other applications on Mac+Windows combination, and we are very impressed.

    Running Windows will never add anything new to the Mac, but this is a great opportunity for those PC users who has a taste for style and design. And the price is very competitive too.

    So, no more excuses.