Photos of Apple Tablet Back Shell Leaked?

[GelatinousCube]

Apple TV

This just looks like an updated Apple TV shell maybe?

 

[MrT8064]

these pictures presumably would have been taken some time ago, why would they only surface an hour before the keynote is due to kick off?

 

[sionharris]

If the screen is square I'm gonna make a leftfield prediction that it will operate some sort of cubical operating system - easy to understand and very flexible. You heard it here first.

 

[CFreymarc]

White Herring

My personal guess is that we are going to see at least two different sized tablets at this announcement. One a larger one running full OS X about 12" in size and a smaller one that is about 8" in size.

As far as this photo, looks like an industrial assembly mock up checking for arm path tolerances and speed of assembly. You save a turn or a flip and in large scale, that is a big production savings.

 

[VenusianSky]

Definitely faked, the tablet hasn't been designed yet . . .

CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of ****! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.

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LOL. Nice! The Onion is great.

 

[Eduardo1971]

Fake... Apple makes everything in an assembly line method, not like that (4 at a time). It would be a waste of resources, time and money...

Fake... next

Besides, that looks like Aluminum, we need the plastic bar to help with radio waves for Wi-Fi and supposedly included 3G radio.

Is it just me or does this shmuk not know what he is talking about.

There is nothing more annoying than someone who is not only arrogant but also wrong at the same time.

 

[Stridder44]

Fake... Apple makes everything in an assembly line method, not like that (4 at a time). It would be a waste of resources, time and money...

Fake... next

Besides, that looks like Aluminum, we need the plastic bar to help with radio waves for Wi-Fi and supposedly included 3G radio.

Well at least you're not jumping the gun or anything.

 

[cmaier]

My personal guess is that we are going to see at least two different sized tablets at this announcement. One a larger one running full OS X about 12" in size and a smaller one that is about 8" in size.

As far as this photo, looks like an industrial assembly mock up checking for arm path tolerances and speed of assembly. You save a turn or a flip and in large scale, that is a big production savings.

No way there will be one running "full OS X."

 

[mwjd299]

Only 45 minutes to go people, calm down.

 

[alexk82]

last one looks fake

something doesn't look right with the last photo. i would have expected to see more than 4 tablets being worked on with a machine that size.

 

[sara123456]

Looks good to me. I'll take 2.

If you want the best coverage, go to http://live.twit.tv

Leo is covering everything about this release.

Thanks its cool to listen

gizmodo's is pretty good, it's just starting

I will check them out thanks

You will have to go to engadget/gizmodo/many others

Thanks I will keep an eye on both of them.

Macrumors said they would be updating, but I'd also open Engadget up.

Here's the link:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event/

Yeah they should have a live blog on here seen as this seems to be the main forum.

 

[jonharris200]

Is something happening today?

 

[alexk82]

haha

Only 45 minutes to go people, calm down.

you're right, but waiting for my food in the microwave kills me

 

[Eye4Desyn]

This is certainly credible form-factor. I can definitely make out the 3.5mm headphone jack on the side. The other switches and buttons - who knows....only 45 minutes 'til showtime. Bring it SJ!

 

[ri0ku]

fake unless apple are going back to the ninties.. square really? common people its got to be widescreen.....


If this thing is a big square im out....

 

[Peter95]

I say fake....

 

[VenusianSky]

Can't believe they fired bullets at the thing!!!

I was thinking spit balls and rubber bands

 

[SchneiderMan]

Looks like a unibody design, pre coated and all that.

 

[jetoo]

Fake or not, juste have to wait another hour.

 

[GeoffShoulders]

Maybe I need glasses, but that doesn't look square to me at all.

+1

 

[dguisinger]

Is it just me or does this shmuk not know what he is talking about.

There is nothing more annoying than someone who is not only arrogant but also wrong at the same time.

Yup, very annoying that he doesn't understand ********
a) it is a room for FCC testing
b) you wouldn't use an assembly line for prototypes, its not like the tablet is shipping today

he must get a lot of ID ten T errors....

[edit] I should clarify, you wouldn't use a large assembly line for prototypes, you still generally would use a short line for PCB assembly since that is the most complicated part to do by hand... but we aren't looking at a circuit board assembly process

 

[EETFUK]

Any guesses on what those ports are?

I am guessing the ones that I can recognize are:

Kensington security slot
SD-card slot
headphone jack
audio output jack (for external speakers)

Just speculating... We will know soon!

 

[twoodcc]

i don't know about these pics. where's the dock connector?

 

[Revelation78]

Actually it looks like a staging area for paint to be applied to the exterior of the device.

 

[GoCubsGo]

Apple showed us videos how they made the casing for the Aluminum MacBooks back in 2008. Clearly it's a assembly line method. Nothing is done by hand unless something needs to be inspected.

Testing facility.....

Assembly line =/= testing facility jav.