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Macbook in its bag

Macbook before unwrapping

People are swooning over that stunningly beautiful MacBook Air notebook.

 

 


Never mind that its usability in terms of ports and drives means it's a fashion statement more than a useful or especially mobile computer. But how, you are asking, did they get it so skinny?. OK. Here's how at TechRepublic where contributor geek, Mark Kaelin, has taken it to bits, photographed the result and published 40 or so closeups of its innards. Macolytes who hate watching those tv pathologist policiers should look away now.

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The Macbook in the process of being taken apart

That APC sterling engine cpu cooler, shown at last week's CeBIT, makes you think of that Lego computer shown by Geekologie .

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All done by Lego

All right, it's completely different. It's based on a Via Epia nano-motherboard. But. It's on wheels. It means the whole ensemble can run back and forth across the desk. Setting up a breeze across that hot little cpu chip. No need for fans here. Funny, there seem to be at least two built in.

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