We’ve seen a lot of mini-laptops that people claim look like a miniature version of a MacBook. But I think the MacBook Mini spotted by M.I.C Gadget probably wins the award for the most authentic looking. Unfortunately, beauty is only skin deep, because on the inside, this thing is pretty much a generic netbook with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270…

Read more »

Over the last year or so we’ve seen a lot of fake Macbook Mini fakes. Some are real netbooks with an Apple logo slapped on the case (or carved out of it). Others are nothing more than works of Photoshop art. But student Kyle Buckner took things to a whole new level with his mockup. Buckner carved a 3/4 scale…

Read more »

A Hong Kong company is promoting a new mini-laptop with a 1.3GHz VIA Nano CPU, the new VIA VX855 chipset, a 10.1 inch, 1024 x 576 pixel display, and a choice of a hard drive or SSD. Nothing too new there. But here’s the kicker: The product page is filled with images making it look like this is an Apple…

Read more »

A member of the MSI Wind.net forums has put together a tutorial for modding an MSI Wind U120 netbook lid to include a glowing Apple logo. Look, I know this isn’t the first time we’ve seen a hack like this. But that doesn’t make it any less cool, OK? One thing that really makes this hack special is that it…

Read more »

We’ve seen instructions for building a fake MacBook Mini out of an MSI Wind netbook, complete with a glowing Apple logo. Now you can do the same thing with an Asus Eee PC. Beware, this hack is not for the faint of heart, as it requires drilling into your nettbook case. And to be honest, the whole thing looks pretty…

Read more »

Over the past year almost every major notebook manufacturer has announced or released a netbook. Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, LG, MSI, Samsung, and Toshiba, just to name a few. But one name that’s been noticably absent from the list is Apple. To date, the iPod and computer maker (in that order), has yet to announce a low cost ultraportable…

Read more »