An in-house prototyping team at the German digital lifestyle site CURVED has created this adorable tribute to the original 128K Macintosh.

CURVED/labs repurposed the components of an 11-inch MacBook Air for their aluminum-cased concept, which also features an 11.6-inch touchscreen (looking good next to the 9-inch monitor of the original), SSD, FaceTime camera, speakers, mic, WiFi, battery, Lightning & USB ports, and the cutest little SD card slot in place of the original 3.5" floppy drive.

As you can see, they have also gone to the trouble of visualizing their design in silver, grey (TAM flashbacks, anyone?), and posh-Jony-Ive-spice gold. 

Is it practical? Not necessarily, but that isn’t what design concepts like this are for, really—I love how it traces the forward silhouette of the original Mac, for no other reason than the nostalgic flutters it yields me. Are there prudent aspects of its engineering which should be commended? Indeed. Does it send me back to a simpler time of playing Trinity, doodling pixel art à la FatBits, and building choose-your-own-adventure games from HyperCard stacks? Most certainly. via designboom