You might already know that products intended to be sold in the United States have to go through the FCC, a certification agency. Sometimes, these products aren’t final versions—they might have small differences, unfinished manuals, etc.
In the (vast) majority of cases, there’s nothing special, but occasionally, there are some amusing things. Given how messy it is, I probably missed some things. That’s how I found out that the AirPort Express was supposed to support hard drives.
A G5 with G4 CPUs
A prototype mouse
An Apple-less base station
An iPhone running a test OS
A prototype keyboard
An Apple-less Magic Mouse
An AirPort Express base station without the Apple logo
An iPad running a test OS
A product code name (Victoria) instead of the actual product name
An iPod touch with a black (or hidden) button
There are also quite a few manuals with « Apple Confidential » stamped on them and red annotations, but I haven’t found anything interesting in them (and it’s quite tedious to check).
