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Moshi's latest accessory essentially "enhances heat dissipation by providing a direct heat conduction path between macbook's bottom casing and zefyr's cast aluminum heat sink assembly." Available in black or silver colors, it's priced at $75. Click here for first picture in gallery.

The Zefyr also provides a pass through USB port, so that peripheral use is not sacrificed. A portable cooling pad might be a little silly, but for anyone who's experience the heat of a MacBook on their lap, and worries about going sterile, it may be useful.

Not your average MacBook Air parody -- no Apple bashing -- this one shows why the standard MacBook is definitely "thin enough" to fit inside a manila envelope. Continue reading to watch.

Using the MacBook's built-in accelerometer, this plug and play virus causes your desktop to literally fall apart. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

It came on a little USB key that looked like a cross between a malevolent Apple and Pac Man and was aimed at, well, people like you or I, who spend far too much time fiddling around on their computers

For Apple's upcoming MacBook Pro update, these fans have taken their own ideas and put it into these interesting concepts. Click here for first picture in gallery.

In terms of true-to-reality, the jury's still out until Apple hits us with the truth, but when it comes to "imagination" and "rainbows," you guys win in a landslide. Up top we have the MacBook Pro touch from Alex W, who slapped an exterior touchscreen onto the MacBook Pro's lid for maximum optimism

Would you buy the new MacBook Pro, if it looked like the mockup above (darker gray and cleaner / more rounded lines)? Continue reading to vote.

Our guess is that Apple would lose the DVI port in this new generation however, probably replaced by the mini-DVI on the Air. What I like most about it, however, is that it reminds me of the good old Titanium PowerBook G4

Axiotron's ModBook Tablet may not be smaller than Apple's new MacBook Air, but it offers a gigantic stylus-compatible screen that can be used for drawing, multimedia applications, and more. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.

After all the waiting and wondering, we're not totally blown away by the end result, though if you're an artist or designer, this could be a real boon to your productivity

At just 3.0-pounds, the MacBook Air features a 13.3-inch display, 1.6-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 80GB HDD or 64GB SSD (optional), 2GB of memory, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Micro-DVI, and an iSight camera. Best of all, users will reportedly get 5-hours of use with Wi-Fi on. Price is currently set at $1799. Click here for first picture in gallery.

[via Gizmodo]

Over the past few weeks, there have been rumors circulating of Apple's forthcoming ultraportable MacBook, which just might be the laptop pictured above (right).

Well kids, it was bound to happen. With Macworld speeding our direction, and all the exciting, unfounded, and wildly hopeful Apple rumors we've been hearing as of late, a doctored (or not doctored) picture was bound to crop up

Computer-Choppers has created the world's first 24-karat gold MacBook Pro, or that we know of -- optional diamond-studded Apple logo shown above. Click here for more pics.

It'll cost you $1200-$1500, and take from two to four weeks, but that does include paint matching the keyboard (picture below) and trackpad, and re-etching the keys so the backlight shines through. If you really want to splash out, you can specify a diamond studded logo of your own choosing to replace the glowing apple

A reader sent in two concept images of what he claims is the next-generation MacBook. Simply put, it looks like a mashup of the new iMac and previous generation MacBook Pro. Click here for one more.

(Thanks, Jake)