Oct 16, 2008 3:30 AM

MacBook Unboxed: Packaged Like a Big iPhone

It’s the natural order of all things Apple: First the announcement, then the un-boxing. Opening up a new Apple toy is always fun — the company pays almost as much attention to the box as what’s inside the box, and with the new MacBooks it looks like Apple has outdone itself. Flickr-er Joe Russell picked […]

It's the natural order of all things Apple: First the announcement, then the un-boxing. Opening up a new Apple toy is always fun -- the company pays almost as much attention to the box as what's inside the box, and with the new MacBooks it looks like Apple has outdone itself.

Flickr-er Joe Russell picked up a MacBook and has posted the packaging porn in the form of the traditional unboxing pics. His conclusion?

Very small, dense box. Not unlike a ream of paper.
Opening the box, first thing I noticed was that its virtually identical in the iPhone 3G experience... the back of the lid is black softy foam, and when lifting the black tab it brings the machine up and forward.

Joe also gives his first impressions of the new glass trackpad:

the entire surface is in fact not a clickable button... but rather the lower two-thirds. And as far as it being glass, it feels more like the original textured surface of the trackpad on the MacBook Pro.

MacBook late 08 unboxing [Flickr/Joe Russell]

Photos: Joe Russel/Flickr

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