Higher Quality MacBook Pro Case Photos

[Phrasikleia]

If we look at the leaked images from about a month ago showing an apple notebook case with a large area at the back missing for the battery and line this up with the screw holes near the front of the keyboard, they fit perfectly. Suggests that the battery will be at the back.

Yeah, I posted this photo earlier, on which I indicated where the larger part of the bottom case will reach.

(click to enlarge photo)

 

[dm10003]

let's hope steve is also not half the previous thickness

I think the laptops are going to be tapered when they add the metal plate at the bottom. Just like the Macbook Air, the vertical edge around the whole computer is uniform but the metal plate that makes the bottom of the computer is what gives it its tapered shape. The similar is going to happen to the Macbook Pros and Macbooks by adding a plate either metal or plastic, although they are going to be less tapered. The Pro might get a metal baseplate, while the regular Macbook might get a polycarbonate bottom shell for better wireless reception.

Apple won't make their computers like a rectangle again. Just look at the iMac, iPhone, iPod touch, and Air and you can see they are moving towards a new design direction for this generation's computers.

+1
but i doubt the laptops will have an iphone-style rounded bottom!!!

 

[Cloudane]

Fifth possibility: The presumed MacBook pics here aren't even legit to begin with.

So unlikely, given the multiple photos and sources etc, that I didn't even bother including that possibility

It's a VERY clever, time consuming and possibly very expensive hoax if so!

 

[steamed.hams]

So unlikely, given the multiple photos and sources etc, that I didn't even bother including that possibility

It's a VERY clever, time consuming and possibly very expensive hoax if so!

It's neither clever, time consuming nor expensive to take a shell of a prototype and post pictures of it.

 

[r0k]

Roughly 24 hours to go... I don't see how I can afford a new computer right now but I'd still like to see how this turns out. Maybe in early 2009, on the anniversary of my Penryn...

I'd really like to see Apple offer a smaller lighter cheaper machine more like the form factor of the Asus EEE than the Macbook Air but I doubt that's gonna happen tomorrow.

 

[NStocks]

Dumb question, Will the Apple logo still light up? From the above pictures ( on this page ) it seems like it won't and if I remember correctly there was a lot of speculation about this, even though the media event shows it lit up.

please be nice I just wanted to know ... ( will be my first Mac )

 

[aleksandra.]

If we look at the leaked images from about a month ago showing an apple notebook case with a large area at the back missing for the battery and line this up with the screw holes near the front of the keyboard, they fit perfectly. Suggests that the battery will be at the back.

Yeah, I posted this photo earlier, on which I indicated where the larger part of the bottom case will reach.

(click to enlarge photo)

The photo which was posted with the speculation about the ridge was of MacBook's case... but you have a good point. I suppose it's pointless to make guesses based on current design.

 

[likemyorbs]

Dumb question, Will the Apple logo still light up? From the above pictures ( on this page ) it seems like it won't and if I remember correctly there was a lot of speculation about this, even though the media event shows it lit up.

please be nice I just wanted to know ... ( will be my first Mac )

of course it'll light up, don't be silly.

 

[juststranded]

Btw, only 2 USB ports? How do I suppose to attach wired keyboard/mouse and iPhone Dock.

If you get the Apple keyboard, you get this:

There's a USB port of each side. You actually gain a port that way.

 

[pkiula]

Well all this is well and good, but:

• Hope they don't change the keyboard to the kind that's on MB
• The thinness of the new MBP, if true, should not affect its heating
• More ports needed, thank you (but this seems to be addressed)
• Above all, the price point now should really be around $2,500 max (parts are not THAT expensive these days, even the best materials)

 

[deriko100]

Erm sorry guys but didnt type post title right but heres a link to a post shows no new macbook prices and shows best buy stock https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6400781#post6400781

 

[aleksandra.]

Well all this is well and good, but:

• Hope they don't change the keyboard to the kind that's on MB
• The thinness of the new MBP, if true, should not affect its heating
• More ports needed, thank you (but this seems to be addressed)

Did you mean "I hope these photos are fake"?

 

[AppliedMicro]

Dumb question, Will the Apple logo still light up?

Most probably.
It's somewhat a trademark of Apple's.
More than aluminum or other design features.

The invitation shows them backlight (ok, maybe cause they won't giva anything away before the even). And if you look at the pics above, there are holes in the case, where the plastic translucent Apple goes. I think they are for some kind of illumination.

I'm not sure about this... but weren't the Apples in the displays backlit by the display backlight? Now, I really don't know how these things work(ed) in notebook displays, but do LED backlight emit light on their "backside" (where the Apple would go)? So maybe Apple has to include some extra lighting for the white Apple anyway? In that case the wouldn't need to make big hole in the metal frame.

 

[Cloudane]

It's neither clever, time consuming nor expensive to take a shell of a prototype and post pictures of it.

I agree.

Good job I was talking about hoaxes and not prototypes!

 

[juststranded]

Dumb question, Will the Apple logo still light up? From the above pictures ( on this page ) it seems like it won't and if I remember correctly there was a lot of speculation about this, even though the media event shows it lit up.

please be nice I just wanted to know ... ( will be my first Mac )

Yeah, it'll light up. As long as the display has a backlight (which I can't see any display in the future NOT having one) the Apple will light up. There's not a seperate LED to light the logo. They kill two birds with one stone and just have the disply LED light the logo. If you turn the brightness on your screen up or down, the logo changes too.

 

[Masklinn]

Hope they don't change the keyboard to the kind that's on MB

First hope dashed, it's pretty much certain that MBPs will get chicklet, as everybody else (which is = awesome)

More ports needed, thank you (but this seems to be addressed)

If the 15" enclosure talked about in this thread is real, then the MBP loses the FW-400 port.

Above all, the price point now should really be around $2,500 max (parts are not THAT expensive these days, even the best materials)

I strongly doubt the pricepoints of MBP will move much.

 

[AppliedMicro]

• Hope they don't change the keyboard to the kind that's on MB

They are going to change keyboard to the kind that's on EVERY OTHER Apple keyboard nowadays.

Some prefer these chiclet keys, some don't. But there should be no doubt that we will see somewhat akin to the MacBook keyboard. Of course these keys will be backlit on the MBP. So expect something like the Air's keyboard...

 

[AppliedMicro]

There's not a seperate LED to light the logo. They kill two birds with one stone and just have the disply LED light the logo.

So the light gets somewhat "diffused" in the white plastic matter... if I understand this correctly? Cause if you look at the pics above, there are only relatively small holes through the metal...

 

[pkiula]

Did you mean "I hope these photos are fake"?

Yes, kinda.

 

[Phrasikleia]

If you get the Apple keyboard, you get this:

There's a USB port of each side. You actually gain a port that way.

Heh. Thanks for posting that. The keyboard is so thin I had forgotten those ports were even there! I just gained two ports!

 

[pkiula]

They are going to change keyboard to the kind that's on EVERY OTHER Apple keyboard nowadays.

Some prefer these chiclet keys, some don't. But there should be no doubt that we will see somewhat akin to the MacBook keyboard. Of course these keys will be backlit on the MBP. So expect something like the Air's keyboard...

Shucks then. Anyway, why do people prefer chicklet? My fingers are so used to seamlessly moving between the keys on the current MBP. With chicklet (or current MB) the keys keep hitting the side of the keys!

 

[steamed.hams]

I agree.

Good job I was talking about hoaxes and not prototypes!

The hoax is that the person is posting prototypes without captions or explanations, and everyone's filling in the blanks and confirming that they are the real deal. They didn't create the hoax. We did.

 

[orangeillini14]

Does it look like there is going to be a right click option? The trackpad button seems like it's kind of split into two.

 

[narcotic]

Does it look like there is going to be a right click option? The trackpad button seems like it's kind of split into two.

there has always been a right click option?
just tap with 2 fingers on the trackpad, but first enable that option in your mouse preferences

 

[Baadshah]

same question here, is there going to be a right click option in the new macbooks??

Its my first mac thats why im asking will use bootcamp and install windows aswell, so thats why a bit nervous