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Ooh, it looks like the black MacBook from 2007! Definitely my favorite Apple laptop I've ever used. Less plasticky feeling than the iBook it replaced, more comfortable to use than the metal unibody machines that replaced it.

I had the plain old white version and stuck a bunch of blackbook replacement parts on it to make it look kind of like an oreo.

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Totally, something like a mix between that and the Sony TZ series.

Also gives me flashbacks to the Google CR-48, which itself looked like a Blackbook but a bit sexy-fied.

Was that the model that introduced the magnetic power cables? I got one of those right out of high school and it was the first laptop I'd owned that wasn't a 3+ year old hand me down. It was magic.

That sounds like it'd look awesome, do you have any photos of it? :>

I'll check when I get home-- I probably still have most of that computer. It's similar to this[1] but the non-letter keys are also swapped for black keys like this[2]. I was super into chessboard pattern at the time so I wanted everything to be black and white.

[1] https://osxdaily.com/2010/10/30/mac-setups-oreo-macbook/ [2] https://www.blogger.com/profile/01006273801333641372

The desktop background also reminds me of Tiger.

Looks to me like a Windows UI or one that was influenced by Windows.

The UI looks linux-y to me. Windows never really had a large "dock".

That's a taskbar. You can make it as large as you want on Windows.

Maybe the icons, but the background and dock are straight out of OSX Tiger.

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