[killer_735]

The eraser thingy doesn't need to be a mouse button...it could very easily be one of the keyboard buttons...(Fn+space perhaps?)

Do a little research...I'm pretty sure that one of the 630-based laptops DID in fact use a nipple pointer. I've checked lowendmac.com, but they don't list pointing devices.


So the Apple store gets crates of stuff with 'Do not open until ____'? Man, I'd go batsh$%..... could never resist the challenge of peeking at Christmas presents without being caught. C'mon, if people could steal steaks and bottles of Johnny Walker from the restaurant where I worked, surely someone here could engineer something....
*sigh* I suppose it's not worth risking a cool job over...

[icruise]

Originally posted by Eug:
Nonetheless, like you, I still think it's fake.

I don't know... I don't think it's possible to fake something like that....

[iNeusch]

Originally posted by Icruise:
I don't know... I don't think it's possible to fake something like that....

Not bad, but not quite as good

[icruise]

Originally posted by killer_735:
Do a little research...I'm pretty sure that one of the 630-based laptops DID in fact use a nipple pointer. I've checked lowendmac.com, but they don't list pointing devices.

Ah, no. No mac has ever used an eraser pointer. The first powerbooks had the trackballs, and then they went to the trackpad and stuck with it ever since.

[icruise]

Originally posted by iNeusch:
Not bad, but not quite as good

Well maybe if I shrunk it down to the size of the first one...

[killer_735]

Two things..

1. The first pic showed the nipple pointer, and the keyboard going all the way to the edge of the case. This one has about an inch or two of whatever space in front of the keyboard, and no nipple thingy.

2. Is it me, or are the edges of the case closest to the camera not parallel with the edge of the keyboard? Looks like a slightly shoddy photoshop job.

I don't know about the first pic, but I think this one's definitely a fake.

[icruise]

I did the second one, and yes it is fake. But it could be a touch-screen. Makes more sense than a eraser-pointer with no button...

[iNeusch]

Originally posted by Icruise:
Well maybe if I shrunk it down to the size of the first one...

try to take the picture from further away

[icruise]

Anyway, the point is that if I could do this in a few minutes (with my pathetic photoshopping skills) it doesn't seem that hard to imagine that the other is a fake too, especially since it's so small.

[escher]

Originally posted by Icruise:
Anyway, the point is that if I could do this in a few minutes (with my pathetic photoshopping skills) it doesn't seem that hard to imagine that the other is a fake too, especially since it's so small.

As much as I would want it to be real, there's no question in my mind that the first picture (with base) is a Photoshop job. As I pointed out above, several very similar 12-inch PB-based subnotebook concepts have floated around the SpyMac Gallery since January. This is just another one of them.

On a related note, if Apple were to release a sub-PowerBook, I hope that it would be single-spindle, i.e. without a built-in optical drive. (As opposed to double-spindle, i.e. HDD and optical drive.) If you want to make the device small and light, there's no point to include an optical drive.

Escher

[Heman]

I'm pretty sure this is a fake, but a darn good one.

take a look at the screen and the doc pages, especially the one on the left, it is not parallel to the edge of the screen, and those 2 pages seem x overlapping each other rather than face-face.

[Eug]

Originally posted by Heman:
I'm pretty sure this is a fake, but a darn good one.

take a look at the screen and the doc pages, especially the one on the left, it is not parallel to the edge of the screen, and those 2 pages seem x overlapping each other rather than face-face.

One is in the foreground and one isn't so it would make perfect sense to be overlapping. You can tell by the widget-thingies in the top left of the document. (There are actually three documents. Two on the left, and one on the right. The right one is in the foreground.) It looks to me to be an actual photo of a TiBook screen or something.

By the way, I think there isn't enough room for a latch by the keyboard. It's possible a bad photo could just obscure it, but I'm not sure if there is enough physical room there even taking the bad picture thing into account.

Next time the creator of that pic can use this thread to make a better fake.

[hyteckit]

Other then the fact that there is no mouse button and the screen is chopped in half (look at the dock and windows), this picture looks pretty real.

The dock. Look at it, no trash can icon. Also, the most bottom icon is only showing the top 1/4. Obviously chopped off, including all the windows on the screen. All in all, very nice photoshop job indeed.

[escher]

Originally posted by iNeusch:
Not bad, but not quite as good

I actually prefer icruise's mockup with a little bit of a wrist area left.

I couldn't find the mockup I talked about before on SpyMac, but I found a copy of it on my HDD. I guess I liked it so much I saved it. I've uploaded it to my .Mac account and here it is. I can't remember the author, but he was referring to it as an "Aluminum Newton." This concept has the exact same dark blue fabric background as the first image in this thread, which leads me to believe they are both from the same author.

PS: I just realized both mockups have the same screen image as well. Definitely the same author, and defnitely concepts based on the 12-inch PowerBook.

http://homepage.mac.com/escher/alnewton.jpg
[Inline images MUST be no wider than 480 pixels! --- tooki]

If it's a great concept mockup, can it really be "fake"?

Escher

[daniel999]

[DO NOT quote large inline images!! It's especially unnecessary when you are quoting the immediately preceding message: in that case, it's unnecessary to quote at all. --tooki]

This is not the same as the first one (no pointer) and its thinner as well
also... the keyboard and the background....look so........fake~

[Eug]

Originally posted by daniel999:
This is not the same as the first one (no pointer) and its thinner as well
also... the keyboard and the background....look so........fake~

Not the same, but close enough. Perhaps an earlier version?

[escher]

Originally posted by Eug:
Not the same, but close enough. Perhaps an earlier version?

That's what I'm thinkin'.

Escher

[Mac Zealot]

it IS an early version. I remember seeing both on spymac gallery before and they WERE photoshopped.

[fisherKing]

photoshop!
think of all the mac devices we've seen "in advance" over the last few years...
pdas, sub-notebooks, tablets...

then there are the sites with mac mockups, designs that never made it to production.


anyway...
it's not real until it's real.

(as for me, still waiting for the 2003 equivalent of the 2400c...)

[escher]

Originally posted by fisherKing:
(as for me, still waiting for the 2003 equivalent of the 2400c...)

The 12-inch PowerBook G4 comes pretty darn close to being "the 2003 equivalent of the 2400c." Look at this comparison picture from a Japanese site.



Sure the 12-inch is a little bit heavier. But you don't have to carry FireWire and USB PC Cards and your AirPort card doesn't have a protruding antenna dongle. On top of that, you can often leave the power adapter behind because of the improved battery life. Finally, the 12-inch runs OS X.

I miss my PowerBook 2400c "Comet" dearly, especially the green translucent Yu-Plan keyboard. But I do not regret selling it to buy my current (aging) iBook/500 two years ago. I'll be even happier when I move up to a Rev.B 12-inch PowerBook whenever they are announced.

Escher

[escher]

Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
it IS an early version. I remember seeing both on spymac gallery before and they WERE photoshopped.

Thank goodness somebody shares my memories of the SpyMac mockups! Now we can give our hopes a rest and focus on the exciting PPC 970 PowerMacs and Panther at WWDC on Monday.

Escher

[danamania]

I'm replying pretty late to this thread, but yeah they're fake (the 12" based silver ones, anyway). I did them a while ago and... only just found links to this thread tonight

Plenty more of my random fakings at http://www.danamania.com/gallery/vhacks/

enjoy!
dana
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[nate_02]

looks like it suffers from uneven illumination. It looks a bit darker in the middle (just like my last three LCDs on my 15" - I'm not bitter though)

--that is on the first pic of it

[HasanDaddy]

add me to the list of people who
would buy one of these things,
should they ever be sold

I would love the portability for
taking notes and writing documents
on the fly!

BRING IT ON APPLE

iWantOne

[McFarmer]

Originally posted by danamania:
Plenty more of my random fakings at http://www.danamania.com/gallery/vhacks/

Dana, cool stuff!

I love your ellen-extreme. Anyone remember Ellen Feiss? She was hilarious. I wonder what happened to her.

And that 17" PowerBook with a numeric keypad is more than overdue.
I understand Apple's argument that they want the keyboard centered below the screen. But the thing is most people work on documents which are left aligned on the big screen anyway, so why not left align the keyboard too?

[The Placid Casual]

I saw the image on AI a few months ago... really like the concept, excellent work!

[milhous]

Nice mockups, but it would be real nice if they replaced the 12" PowerBook with a 13.3" widescreen version, which would make all the displays in the PowerBook line proportional. The 12" screens could still be used in making the iBooks. This would help differentiate the product lines even more. Widescreens for Pros.

[spatterson]

I like that base station... Kinda wish I had one for my PB 15 ALU

[azdude]

Originally posted by McFarmer:
Dana, cool stuff!

I love your ellen-extreme.

Indeed... great makeover. Wow!