All hail Vietnam, new Xanadu of surprising Apple leaks! Vietnamese site Tinthe — the very same site that leaked video of the fourth generation iPhone last week — somehow managed to get their hands on pictures and specs of the next MacBook.
Don’t expect anything too boldly different from the case: the new MacBook appears to be identical to the old unibody plastic. This is mostly just a hardware refresh to make the MacBook more competitive with the baseline 13-inch MacBook Pro, and like the latter laptop, the new MacBook gets a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and an NVIDIA GeForce 320M GPU.
How does Vietnam keep getting these leaks? TUAW has a great theory: “Based on Vietnam’s proximity to the Chinese factories where these products are built, it seems likely Apple has a factory leak on its hands.” Given the worker discontent at several Apple manufacturers recently, we wouldn’t be surprised.
