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Mr Ti · Jan 3, 2008, 02:06 PM

Peter · Jan 3, 2008, 02:09 PM

no.
notice the blending in the trackpad.

richwig83 · Jan 3, 2008, 02:10 PM

Doubt it.... but im quite willing to be wrong...

Mr Ti · Jan 3, 2008, 02:11 PM

hang on let me put my glasses on......

osiris · Jan 3, 2008, 02:15 PM

I don't think so. The trackpad looks fake because of the aforementioned blending.

Also, I doubt Apple would make such a ridiculously huge trackpad.

richwig83 · Jan 3, 2008, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by osiris

I don't think so. The trackpad looks fake because of the aforementioned blending.

Also, I doubt Apple would make such a ridiculously huge trackpad.

It would be pretty awesome if it was that size and doubled up as a graphics tablet!!

Oversoul · Jan 3, 2008, 02:21 PM

No. Apple would never put out a design this ridiculous. If the trackpad is that huge to suggest added multitouch functionality (as rumored), then wouldn't my putting my palms down to type kind of defeat that purpose?

analogue SPRINKLES · Jan 3, 2008, 02:25 PM

It looks like it was casually taken in a dorm room. Hence, bullshit.

osiris · Jan 3, 2008, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by richwig83

It would be pretty awesome if it was that size and doubled up as a graphics tablet!!

That would be a good idea, but I still don't buy that huge button.

Mastrap · Jan 3, 2008, 02:43 PM

Id say the biggest giveaway is that it doesn't make sense to have the palms of your hands resting on your trackpad. It moves the freaking mouse.

Oh, and:

richwig83 · Jan 3, 2008, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by osiris

That would be a good idea, but I still don't buy that huge button.

True... its waaaay too big!! althought a small button and big pad would look a bit daft!

osiris · Jan 3, 2008, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

love it!

Mr Ti · Jan 3, 2008, 03:22 PM

Link to some mad patent

Revenge of Apple patent attack: giant laptop touchpad - Engadget

Oversoul · Jan 3, 2008, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Ti

Link to some mad patent

Revenge of Apple patent attack: giant laptop touchpad - Engadget

Oh my... what will Apple engineers think up next?

Dakar the Fourth · Jan 3, 2008, 03:41 PM

...and so it begins. Countdown to the next thread in the showing up in the MacBook Pro forum in 3... 2... 1...

Oisín · Jan 3, 2008, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

It looks like it was casually taken in a dorm room. Hence, bullshit.

It looks like it was casually taken in a Swedish dorm room*; hence, bullshit.

* The book in the upper right corner. Dan Brown’s Änglar och Demoner, in Swedish.

Dakar the Fourth · Jan 3, 2008, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

* The book in the upper right corner. Dan Brown’s Änglar och Demoner, in Swedish.

****ing Scandinavians!

PB2K · Jan 3, 2008, 05:11 PM

i'm glad they didn't continue their oversensitive and useless "Mighty Rat" buttons on this thing

Not that I take this picture for real but, the size is good but it looks really boring. SSH drive, LED display.. those are the nice things that should give it a loong battery life

ajprice · Jan 3, 2008, 05:40 PM

If it was going to be a new Macbook mini or whatever, wouldn't Apple make it look like a new design instead of a miniature version of a Macbook Pro?

Laminar · Jan 3, 2008, 06:21 PM

If Apple was making a new tower for the new architecture, wouldn't they make it look different from the old tower?

imitchellg5 · Jan 3, 2008, 08:54 PM

ZOMG!1!ONE! I would throw that out the wind0ze. So stupid. !11

I love how we always make fun of these things. I bet Apple just throws these bad photoshop jobs up on the internet to get a feel for what people don't want.

Tomchu · Jan 3, 2008, 09:25 PM

It's either a Swedish dorm room, or the desk of an Apple engineer who happens to be reading Angels and Demons in Swedish.

It's interesting that the laptop is considerably thinner and narrower than the current MBP, though.

Cadaver · Jan 3, 2008, 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

It looks like it was casually taken in a Swedish dorm room*; hence, bullshit.

* The book in the upper right corner. Dan Brown’s Änglar och Demoner, in Swedish.

While I agree the picture is a big fakola, I didn't realize Apple was selling iPhones in Sweden.

Chuckit · Jan 3, 2008, 11:56 PM

The iPhone isn't sold in Sweden, but the iPod Touch is.

Oisín · Jan 4, 2008, 02:25 AM

And quite a few people here are starting to have iPhones, too, regardless of the fact that they don’t sell them.

Go to the US, get a local friend to buy one for you, bring it back home, and have it unlocked. No less than three guys at work have done this (two of them Swedish).

Tomchu · Jan 4, 2008, 10:37 AM

The iPhones that come with 1.1.2 out of the box include a new bootloader, which has yet to be hacked around. Thus, no unlocks for these phones yet. :-P

TETENAL · Jan 4, 2008, 11:52 AM

chris v · Jan 4, 2008, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

I like this idea. Wonder if they'll move on it?

Laminar · Jan 4, 2008, 01:01 PM

At the University where I used to work, all of the staff members that had Dell laptops got the docking stations and external monitors. The Apple users were forced to either just sit there with a laptop or individually plug in 5 different things when they wanted to "dock" their laptop.

Dakar the Fourth · Jan 4, 2008, 01:07 PM

Your plight moves me to tears.

osiris · Jan 4, 2008, 01:14 PM

I farted.

Judge_Fire · Jan 4, 2008, 01:51 PM

We're at level 7, it seems.

CharlesS · Jan 4, 2008, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Now that one would make the iMac make sense. I'd buy it if the specs were good.

chris v · Jan 4, 2008, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire

We're at level 7, it seems.

I've always loved that they used a screen shot of teh NN forums for that. A true classic.

Cadaver · Jan 4, 2008, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire

We're at level 7, it seems.

Worst part is of course that they're mostly correct.

Laminar · Jan 4, 2008, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Judge_Fire

We're at level 7, it seems.

Genius. Spot on.

olePigeon · Jan 5, 2008, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by TETENAL

Maybe the new portable will be the MacBook Duo! Complete with the Duo Dock!

imitchellg5 · Jan 5, 2008, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

Maybe the new portable will be the MacBook Duo! Complete with the Duo Dock!

Wow, you are totally right. I miss my PowerBook with it's little Dock.

TETENAL · Jan 5, 2008, 03:21 PM

analogue SPRINKLES · Jan 5, 2008, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

Maybe the new portable will be the MacBook Duo! Complete with the Duo Dock!

This is the first thing that is making me think it might be fore real.

OwlBoy · Jan 5, 2008, 06:55 PM

The leaked fat iPod pics were total fakes too. Along with the leaked Cube ones. FAKES I TELL YEAH!

Judge_Fire · Jan 6, 2008, 08:15 AM

It'd be more fun if you drop the portable in from the top and have it pop up, when ejecting.

mdc · Jan 6, 2008, 08:40 AM

Maybe they could put a toaster eject slider on the side

I'm looking at my MacBook and if I hold it facing me with the Apple logo the correct way up, the ports are on the right hand side and the cdrom on the left hand side.
Either that dock is for a new laptop with ports on the right and cdrom on the left, or they drew the Apple logo the correct way to signify that it's an Apple laptop.

I hope it's option b and it gets released for existing MacBooks.

ajprice · Jan 8, 2008, 04:06 AM

And another one, from the macrumors forums ...

Macbook Nano

Faust · Jan 8, 2008, 06:28 AM

I hope it is a fake. I hoped that too when the new iPod Nano images were leaked, people called it a fake and, boing, it turned out they weren't fakes. I still don't like the visual appeal of the new iPods and I won't like the new Macbook visually either if these turn out to be the real thing.