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  • This Red MacBook Is Real, But It’s Not What You Think

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Monday, December 5th, 2011
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    Gizchina has the scoop on a fake MacBook clad in red alloy, a look that I wouldn’t kick out of bed for eating crackers but, obviously, is marred by not being a real MacBook.

    This is a 1.8GHz Atom device with 2GB RAM and a 320GB hard drive and they couldn’t stick an optical disk in there without making it huge. It’s slightly thinner than a real MacBook and it has a delightful Apple logo right on the front there so everyone can enjoy your refusal to fall for Apple’s high prices but your desire to mimic Apple’s cool. I mean at $275 how can you go wrong?

    No, this will never reach our shores, but it’s fun to look at.