September 25, 2008 3:06 PM PDT
Is this the new MacBook Pro?
Let the Internet comment trolling commence!
(Credit: nowhereelse.fr)The Interwebs are atwitter with a single blurry cell phone shot of what may or may not be one of the newly redesigned MacBook laptops we've been reading about.
The pic briefly showed up on a French Web site, and just as quickly vanished, but not before several sites (from Valleywag to Wired) were able to grab copies of the photo. (The original post is now up again.)
Some Apple faithfuls are crying "fake!" while others think it's the real deal--we should all know for sure at Apple's next big press event in mid-October.
We present the original photo here for your examination and interpretation.
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I would hope this what the next MacBooks and MacBook Pros would look like but,
I'm not getting my hopes up. I could be disappointed...
As an innovator; Apple is now at the lowest point in its steep recession of innovativeness. Peak of the zenith of course was the iPod. What I strongly urge everyone to do is to find the next innovator. Google? Amazon? Sony? How about All three!
A web surfing device that runs on Android and is built by Sony with premium content provided by Amazon [DRM free, Apple fanboys need not Apply {no pun intended}] that will come to squash away all competition involving notebooks, mp3 players and smart phones. Granted; this is just an example of the next 'IT' - but you are seriously mulling over an under designed, over priced laptop that looks like a product Apple released earlier this year; Air. SOHO, NYC.
Any comments on my thoughts would be nice.
(im good with photoshop :))
If it were real, Steve Milhous Jobs would have had his cadre of corporate lawyers disappearing the evidence. "Are you now, or have you ever been involved in public discussion or distribution of information about upcoming Apple products?"
I hear Steve has a lobbying firm working on getting the Apple NDA added to the Constitution.
Actually now that I think about this... A great idea would be to put a dock on the trackpad to save more screen space... add a little LCD screen in the trackpad with a glass cover and then that would be the new dock, but I dont think that is what it is.
1 The keys are blank!
2 Dark area on trackpad/touch screen!
3 Dock on trackpad is a reflection!
1) You cant tell if the keys are blank or not, the image gets too reduced that not much detail can be seen. The reason the keys look mushed together on the left and right is simple, looking at it from such a low angle, you cant see the silver between the keys. That is why the keys look like so on the left and right. Also, if this is a standard apple keyboard, the left-most keys would be shift, casp lock, and tab, relatively wide keys.
2) The dark area on the trackpad/ touch screen can be very easily explained. If it is a touch screen, which it appears to be, then it could merely be the touch screen background. Or it could be a reflection from the main screen, which has a darker lower right corner.
3) As for the dock on the maybe touch screen, if it is a reflection, why would the guy not photoshop it out? Obviously, it looks as it is supposed to.
- by Lemon5 September 25, 2008 6:55 PM PDT
- Ok, question: Who cares? I mean it looks really really similar to the last macbook pro. I am getting sick of people freaking out everytime Apple farts. The only thing that is all that big right now is the redesign of the nano, and even then it isn't that big of a deal. Show us something revolutionary! Oh, how is Crysis running on Macs?
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