More "MacBook Air" evidence wafts by

Sure, all will be revealed tomorrow, but rather than twiddle their thumbs, the Apple curious are scouring the internet for further evidence of the MacBook Air. A certain tipster named "byrd" searched for "macbookair" on Dogpile and found a Google ad listing up top, which redirects to the MacBook page of the Apple Store. Meanwhile MacDailyNews reader "mango" tracked down the macbookair.org domain name and found that it is indeed listed under Apple -- the Whois domain name lookup won't show any info on the .com or .net versions. Obviously these are pretty minor details that don't say a lot in themselves, but the more of these that pile in, the more we're inclined to believe in a magical ultraportable from Apple tomorrow that will fulfill all our wishes -- we're suckers like that.

[Thanks, byrd]

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[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 4:19PM]

"Something in the Air" probably refers to Apple committing to wireless USB to replace the ports on the new macbooks. I wonder if that implies there's some type of port replicator or docking station required. I think the collapsible ports that Apple patented a while back are too ugly for their designers to try to use.

[KiddJones Posted Jan 14th 2008 4:26PM]

http://i5.tinypic.com/87a7fr4.gif

It's a definite!

Someone already posted the page above, but here it is again...
http://www.macbookairblog.com/post/23698665

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 4:36PM]

Yeah, I posted about this a minute ago.

But Apple has, in the past, let out fake shots to lead us off.

[Argote Posted Jan 14th 2008 4:46PM]

Bullshit... SSD's come in power of 2 sizes... not 60 or 80 GB

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 5:19PM]

Some peculiar things about that Air pic. The text under the cinema displays doesn't match current store. Plus there is a lot of space between the display section and the next row of customization. Should already be seeing the horizontal line separating the adapter (or similar) section.

[KiddJones Posted Jan 14th 2008 4:40PM]

Do they allow video cameras in the keynote? They obviously allow laptops and they have wifi in there... Someone should stream it live (for free!) on the website ustream.tv .... I just found it. It's pretty cool. And I really want to watch this live rater than keep refreshing the page, lol.

[oshean Posted Jan 14th 2008 4:51PM]

View synergypi's signature. Is he bluffing?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6327136

[Muji Posted Jan 14th 2008 4:53PM]

AIR = Apple iTunes Rentals
AIR = Apple iTunes Rentals
AIR = Apple iTunes Rentals
AIR = Apple iTunes Rentals
AIR = Apple iTunes Rentals
AIR = Apple iTunes Rentals
AIR = Apple iTunes Rentals
AIR = Apple iTunes Rentals
AIR = Apple iTunes Rentals
AIR = Apple iTunes Rentals

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 5:59PM]

DUH!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 5:19PM]

How about a deal with at&t with 3g service in the laptop?

[woutje76 Posted Jan 14th 2008 5:41PM]

HA, this is a obvious hint I think.

http://www.macbookair.com/

redirects to :

http://www.apple.com/?Will+We+see+a+MacBookAir+on+Tuesday?

How clear that sign is !!!!

I am betting a MacBook Air is to be aired .... :-p

[wesg Posted Jan 14th 2008 5:22PM]

What was the creation date on the WHOIS record?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 5:38PM]

you DO know that macbookair.org was registered January 11th, right?

and that Apple doesn't own macbook.com, or macpro.com, or macbookpro.com, or anything else like that, right?

I don't know about you, but to me, this tidbit makes the MAcbook Air seem LESS likely, if only by a little.

[RomeoDude Posted Jan 14th 2008 5:45PM]

Has anyone else seen macbookair.com? It looks legitimate, but I guess it could be fake.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 5:49PM]

By the way, www.macbookair.com redirects to:

http://www.apple.com/?Will+We+see+a+MacBookAir+on+Tuesday?

Don't know if that means something...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 6:09PM]

That was just redirected in the past few hours. It was a discount providers page this afternoon.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 6:07PM]

!!!! if you go to macbookair.com it forwards to

http://www.apple.com/?Will+We+see+a+MacBookAir+on+Tuesday?

[byrd Posted Jan 14th 2008 6:53PM]

Actually, 'macbookair' (no space) would not have arbitrarily produced a sponsored link. Apple would have had to actually purchase it. It actually isn't too far fetched that they'd buy 'macbooknano' or '[-]red' since they'd only pay if someone were to search on it. Doesn't really matter now since it it's produce store.apple.com anymore. If one were to enter 'macbook air' (with a space), the results could be quite different. You would have had to specify the longer string. Enough for today... enjoy the keynote!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 6:58PM]

anyone notice this....

"airbook" and the banner this year says "there is something in the air"

could that be a hint?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 8:37PM]

Somebody also screwed up since Apple would use the full product name. Meaning they wouldn't say "The MacBook supports up to..." rather they would say "The MacBook Air supports up to...."

This is notable when you look at pages for various products, for the MacBook Pro, they write, "All MacBook Pro models support up to 4 gigabytes of RAM."

For the Mac Pro they write, " Mac Pro systems support up to 32GB of 800MHz DDR2 fully buffered ECC memory in eight FB-DIMM slots. "

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2008 8:38PM]

Sorry, that was in reply to http://i5.tinypic.com/87a7fr4.gif

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2008 3:32AM]

Has any thought that 'Air' might be Adobe Air and that might be what the new SDK for the iPhone will be based on? (Still hoping it is an ultraportable Mac tho ;-) )

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2008 3:47AM]

Yet another expensive ripoff of existing technology from Apple. When are people going to learn that paying more for less is not a good deal.