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pffxmacuzer · Mar 3, 2006, 10:56 PM

What is this? Found it at MacMall.com when looking up the 17" PB.I kept clicking on the pictures and there it was. I have never seen a notebook from Apple yet that looks like this.

Barefoot Matt · Mar 3, 2006, 11:13 PM

That does kind of look like an ExpressCard/34 slot on the right side, suggesting a new model... but it looks like it's in the wrong place, like the optical drive should be in the way, suggesting it could be a fake. I don't know why it would be a fake, though. Even if someone did try to fake a picture of a new 17" mac laptop, why would it be on MacMall? I'm wondering if maybe this is a picture of a prototype 17" AlBook, later replaced by the current design before shipping.

PeterKG · Mar 3, 2006, 11:19 PM

It looks like a TiBook. The hinges, display, base.

Star-Fire · Mar 3, 2006, 11:21 PM

Yup Ti, that little thing on the side was the window for the airport antenna.

Barefoot Matt · Mar 3, 2006, 11:29 PM

Ah, I've never seen a TiBook, I just assumed that the OP knew what he was talking about when he said he'd never seen one like this

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ibook_steve · Mar 3, 2006, 11:47 PM

That is not a Ti or an aluminum Powerbook. That's some weird Photoshop creation. The speaker grilles are aluminum, and the airport window is Ti. Where did you find this?

Steve

pffxmacuzer · Mar 3, 2006, 11:56 PM

That is not a Ti or an aluminum Powerbook. That's some weird Photoshop creation. The speaker grilles are aluminum, and the airport window is Ti. Where did you find this?

Steve

I was clicking on the 17" PowerBook pictures at MacMall.com and found it.Where the screen connects to the rest of the notebook and the airport window looks like a Ti but everything else looks like an Aluminum PB mostly. What also caught my eyes was the lack of ports on the side and a card slot.

goMac · Mar 4, 2006, 12:03 AM

Yeah, that's a TiBook that's been Photoshopped strangely.

The TiBooks were so sexy. Too bad the paint chipped.

Voch · Mar 4, 2006, 12:14 AM

Hey! It's the computer I'm typing this on!

Velocity211 · Mar 4, 2006, 12:21 AM

That's pretty weird, TiBook with AlBook's speaker grills and keyboard, also the TiBook never originally shipped with OS 10.3 Panther.

PurpleRabbit73 · Mar 5, 2006, 09:05 AM

Oh yeah, well I saw this:

And this:

http://www.theapplecollection.com/de...ign/PBG50.html

And even this!!:

JKT · Mar 5, 2006, 10:09 AM

Does that Al G5 pack my lunch too?

It actually looks cool in a strange, chunky way. However, the silver thing is ugly as sin, IMNSHO.

harrisjamieh · Mar 5, 2006, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by JKT

Does that Al G5 pack my lunch too?

It actually looks cool in a strange, chunky way. However, the silver thing is ugly as sin, IMNSHO.

What WOULD have been cool is if that pic was the entire unit, but the top little bit lifts off, along with the screen, to leave you with a much more portable G4 PowerBook. Then when you went back home, you reconnected the PB and the big box, and you get upgraded to a G5 PB.

photoeditor · Mar 5, 2006, 11:12 AM

Yes, I remember seeing that G5 mockup. I laugh every time I see it. The mother of all thermal challenges indeed.

The one at the top is a very strange bastardization indeed. A TiBook display and side (a 15 incher of course) and an aluminum 17 inch keyboard and top panel.

PurpleRabbit73 · Mar 5, 2006, 11:40 AM

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/famil...~powerbook.asp

The second picture is not the same as the first...

tooki · Mar 5, 2006, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by pffxmacuzer

What is this? ...

Wow! What a careless (and pointless!) Photoshop job!

They started with a TiBook (already almost 3 years outdated), which is why it has the antenna slit on the bottom. Then they pasted in the keyboard area from a 17" AlBook. The result? Look at the screen latches: the TiBook had one latch, so the lid in that photo has one latch. The 17" AlBook has two latches, so the base there has two latch slots -- which don't match up with the latch shown.

I can't imagine why they'd go to the trouble of doing this when they can just get images from Apple. MacMall is insane.

tooki

SSharon · Mar 5, 2006, 01:00 PM

Why does it look like there are two latch holes on the base and only one on the screen? I thought only the new MBP has two latches and then it should have an isight.
strange indeed.

PurpleRabbit73 · Mar 5, 2006, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by SSharon

Why does it look like there are two latch holes on the base and only one on the screen? I thought only the new MBP has two latches and then it should have an isight.
strange indeed.

Haha your right, what morons!!

B Gallagher · Mar 5, 2006, 01:25 PM

Does the fact that what looks like the PC Card slot lines up exactly with the optical drive (a physical impossibility) not give it away?

I'm really curious as to why someone would bother to make that image. :S

iREZ · Mar 5, 2006, 01:35 PM

dont ask me why...but for some reason macmall uses the base of a ti book but if you look at the keys and the space between the keyboard and the edge (ie. the top of the base) it is indeed a 17" powerbook layout. then it uses the hinges of the tibook again. macmall has been doing this for quite some time....w e i r d.

Velocity211 · Mar 5, 2006, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by SSharon

Why does it look like there are two latch holes on the base and only one on the screen? I thought only the new MBP has two latches and then it should have an isight.
strange indeed.

The screen and the base is part of the TiBook, and the top is the 17in AlBook

icruise · Mar 6, 2006, 12:29 AM

I could understand people doing something like this if they were going to try and pass it off as a Windows computer (that happens all the time). But why on earth would they do it for a Mac?