Flickr Find: FakeBook Nano
Gizmodo found these pictures of a customized MSI Wind laptop that comes complete with glossy finishes, Apple logos and Mac OS X. The laptops feature the name "MacBook Nano."
The laptops have 10-inch screens, 2GB of RAM, 320GB hard disks, a flash media reader, and the specifications feature Windows XP Professional and Mac OS X 10.5.5.
Gizmodo notes that they can't tell if the laptops are a custom hack, or are being illegally sold. Descriptions on the images appear to be in Chinese, so if you can let us know what they say, be so kind as to leave us a comment!
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KoNeko said 3:59PM on 11-10-2008
I forget what forum, but I know I saw some MSI Wind forum with a bunch of custom made stickers posted that say MacBook Nano, MacBook Pro Nano, etc. So it may just be a custom hack. I remember the sticker being similar to how the "MacBook Nano" font looks on the posted pic
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Andy Mazal said 4:05PM on 11-10-2008
Note too the green Apple-branded device, which appears to be an external hard drive, to the top left of the laptop. Last I checked, Apple doesn't make external drives either.
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dandaman said 5:19PM on 11-10-2008
I think that's just a sticker. Last I checked, they didn't make my car or my guitar case either
dandaman said 5:22PM on 11-10-2008
*bumper sticker... the ones that come with your mac, iphone, or ipod
ben said 4:10PM on 11-10-2008
ironically, there is a windows key on the bottom left of the keyboard. Where's the Cmd love!?
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Meridimus said 5:21AM on 11-11-2008
My thoughts exactly!
Jash Sayani said 9:53AM on 11-11-2008
Just what I was going to say... A Mac with a Windows key !!!
I love the FakeBook...
Sam said 4:11PM on 11-10-2008
I think I've seen this before I'm pretty sure its a hack. Is that a windows start key? They should have change that if they were going to all that trouble with everything else.
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Jay said 4:23PM on 11-10-2008
MSI U100 MacBook Nano (bitter white)
XP Pro + OSX 10.5.5
Lightweight, small, friendly multi-media design!!
Processor: Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz
Memory: 2G DDRII
Screen: 10 "WSVGA LED (1024x600)
Hard Disk: 320GB SATA
Weight: 1kg (non-6 cell battery)
Others: 1,300,000-pixel video, Bluetooth, wireless Internet access (adapted), built-in MMC / SD / MS 4-in-1 card reader
Operating system: Windows XP Pro + Mac OSX Leopard
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thats from google translation services off the writing on the page
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weldon said 4:29PM on 11-10-2008
http://forums.msiwind.net/post44132.html
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Scott said 4:32PM on 11-10-2008
If you carefully look through the same person's Flickr album, he photographed some steps of the modifications. It's a hack.
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sonofacpu said 10:55PM on 11-10-2008
No, it's a trap!
Joe said 4:36PM on 11-10-2008
There's many discussions in the msiwind forum about installing osx on a wind. I'm next!
http://msiwind.net/search.php?cx=partner-pub-4362190332215502%3Ay79z1m-n1kv&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=osx+on+msi+wind&sa=Search#973
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badweasel said 7:21PM on 11-10-2008
Do the Dell Mini 9 instead.. http://www.michaelsmith.tv/2008/11/10/dell-mini-9-leopard-install/
benny said 4:36PM on 11-10-2008
MacBook Nano.. now with no working sound!
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gehrbox said 5:01PM on 11-10-2008
Bought one of these a few weeks ago, runs OS X 10.5.5 well. I set it up to dual boot Windows Xp or OS X. Only downside is the mic and headphone jacks don't work. Sound works fine through the speakers though. Had to buy a Dell 1490 wireless card to replace the one that comes with the computer in order to get wireless working well.
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badweasel said 7:21PM on 11-10-2008
It probably works, it prob just doesn't auto-detect that you inserted the mic or headphones. Use the free source source app:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/download/SoundSource.dmg
josh said 5:01PM on 11-10-2008
im posting from my own mac book nano except in black.... i did it all my self though. That picture appears to be from msiwind.net and in the mac osx section about modding the case
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ez2c said 5:43PM on 11-10-2008
this is a Taiwanese guy, made a faked MacBook Nano which is never existing, based on a MSI laptop, polished the shell, put apple logo there. Seems he did it for fun.
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Shawn said 5:46PM on 11-10-2008
It's not perfect, but Google Translate gives you a good idea of the pictures and contents
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fmickpro%2F2991697754%2Fin%2Fset-72157608560230667%2F&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=zh-CN&tl=en
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