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Apple advertising the Macbook (iBook)?

Melablog.it notices that Apple appears to be advertising under the keyword "MacBook" in Google.it's search results.

The top sponsored result returns the title "Macbook" and a link to the Italy Apple Store. This is not necessarily interesting in itself, but it describes the "Macbook" as starting at 999.

No MacBook Pro starts that low, and the current iBook starts at 1049 in the Italy Apple Store.

(Of note, the Google ad has now been changed from "Macbook" to "MacBook Pro".)

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77 months ago
Was there macbook or macbook pro? in the second case, I guess it's a typo:o
Otherwise, I hope we can expect the iBook within a few weeks:)
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77 months ago
It seems the process of preparing for a web centric product release is so complicated that even a company as sophisticated as Apple cannot keep track of every little detail prior to the official release.

Someone should write some software or something :)

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77 months ago

Was there macbook or macbook pro? in the second case, I guess it's a typo:o
Otherwise, I hope we can expect the iBook within a few weeks:)

Except that a price of 999Euros would imply a nonpro system. The MacBook Pro starts at 2159Euros at the Italian store, so it's not due to missing or transposed digits. 1259Euros would make me think it's a typo.
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77 months ago
If it is real then we probably will see the Macbooks at the April 1st event.
The slightly lower price would be very welcome, too (I always thought the intel chips were at least 100 $ more, that would lower Apples Margin a lot).
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77 months ago

If it is real then we probably will see the Macbooks at the April 1st event.
The slightly lower price would be very welcome, too (I always thought the intel chips were at least 100 $ more, that would lower Apples Margin a lot).

Integrated graphics would keep the price lower ...
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77 months ago
That's quite cheap, and like plinden says, it's less likely to be a typo if it's nothing like the macbook pro price.

1259Euros would make me think it's a typo.

I reckon this is a real leak, I don't see anything that says otherwise. (Edit: Unless the web site itself has just fed me a photoshopped image)

Integrated graphics would keep the price lower ...

With a price this low, I hope it's not a Pentium M.
The google translated (poor) article is here: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.melablog.it/post/1620/su-google-tracce-di-un-macbook-a-999e
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77 months ago
Just in case anyone hasn't looked, the current 12" iBook is selling on the Apple Italy store for €1049.

Edit: Sorry - the translated page makes that quite clear. Didn't see that.
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77 months ago
Yet another slip up. Most items seem to be "announced" before they actually are, anymore. Here's to hoping Apple releases something unexpectedly that most of us like (of course there will always be someone to complain about something, like I am doing in this post :))
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77 months ago
Can anyone translate Italian? I tried but it ended up like google's translation. :o
Oh well, Im only half way through my lessons...
I would really like to read their commentary. If this is real I will be happy.
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77 months ago
Sweet, good find. Its amazing what people will find in random places.
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