Remember your initial cellphone? If you're aged enough, that mental recall will add a pull-out receiver of a few kind, a undeveloped RF tail whose genes were transfered down from walkie-talkies and margin radios of old. And it seems that Apple, as if before office building its multi-zillion-dollar receiver lab, was moreover experimenting with pop-up antennae on its aged MacBook Pros.
Here's a print of a once secret antecedent MacBook Pro with built-in 3G, up for sale on Ebay and now requiring a bid of over $11,000 to win the auction. Externally, the Santa Rosa-based MacBook Pro looks similar to any other pre-unibody MBP, detached from a tiny slide-out rabbit ear in the tip correct dilemma of the lid. This extends to give improved accepting to the soldered-on SIM route house within. The inside is moreover full of antecedent gear, from the red motherboard to the "evaluation" visual expostulate (going on the visual drives in the stream MacBook Airs, we theory it unsuccessful the analysis [**rimshot**]).
Interesting is the amount of gloss that has vanished in to hardware that was unfailing never to see the soothe of an Apple Store manifestation table. Not usually is that receiver a best tie in is to lid, but the SIM card container has a really professional-looking home in the battery brook (just similar to a cellphone).
If (and may when) the MacBook Air gets a 3G radio, the receiver is sufficient more expected to be sitting at the back a cosmetic RF window similar to that in the iPad 3G, and the SIM will may have a little pop-out drawer, moreover similar to the iPad 3G (and iPhone). Which may usually creates this peek inside Apple's secret pattern lab all the more interesting.
Unreleased PROTOTYPE Apple Macbook Pro 15″ With 3G [Ebay around TUAW ]
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