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Prototype Laptop Stolen from Apple in December?

Zirana.com published a weekly crime summary of Cupertino, CA for late December which reveals that a prototype Apple laptop was stolen from Apple campus:

Trade Secret Theft/Possession of Stolen Property - Infinite Loop
Between 1/1 and 12/18, unknown suspect(s) took a prototype laptop worth about $100,000 from Apple Computers on Infinite Loop using an unknown method. The suspect(s) sold it to another suspect. Deputies recovered the laptop from the second suspect and he was released pending further investigation.

The laptop is said to be worth about $100,000 but has since been recovered according to the brief report. Zirana is a startup company which provides local news and information for various cities including Cupertino. The source and validity of the report, however, is unclear as the site encourages user generated submissions to the site.

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27 months ago
I would like to see a $100,000 laptop an apple prototype one would make it even better

Stupid thief dident even take pics :mad:
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27 months ago

The laptop is said to be worth about $100,000


...and sports a 5GHz 32-core CPU, 128GB of RAM, an 8TB SSD and 17 inch 4k OLED screen, all encased in a hardened white gold case.
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27 months ago
And I thought $2000 for a laptop was a rip off.
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27 months ago
... and if Steve has his way, the person in question will spend the next 15 years incarcerated in Gitmo. :P
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27 months ago
Prototype stuffs can have very high prices on (black) market ...
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27 months ago
A watched kettle never boils.
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27 months ago
Well,
at least we now know the price of the new tablet. $100,000. Bwahhhaaa haaaa haaa haa ha h...whooo. (Best Dr. Evil impression)
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27 months ago
The key word here is "PROTOTYPE". Which means, small batch OR one-off. As such, the 100,000 price tag no doubt represents R&D investment as well as the time into it.

Furthermore, anyone who has worked on plastic crappy PC laptops, and a MacBook understands that the price difference is more than just an Apple Tax...the machines are very well built. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!

Why can't PCs get it?
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27 months ago
that 100k represents what they would get had they taken pics and sent them in to that bounty website.
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27 months ago

Well,
at least we now know the price of the new tablet. $100,000. Bwahhhaaa haaaa haaa haa ha h...whooo. (Best Dr. Evil impression)


Great post
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