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Spy Shot: WWDC Presentation Slide?
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looks great, but the pricetag on this thing would be well over 3000$......
With a 120GB flash drive it would be a lot more than that...
do you have a page 1000? because that's where this one belongs. it's easily the least convincing fake i've seen in a while!
Nice! I love this!
The "Elevator shot" has evolved into the "Slideshow shot"!!!!!
AWESOME!
Flash drive makes it fake.
32GB Flash drive was the largest I remember seeing about 4 months ago. I think SanDisk was bringing it out. Someone correct me on this one if I'm wrong!
The "Elevator shot" has evolved into the "Slideshow shot"!!!!!
AWESOME!
Flash drive makes it fake.
32GB Flash drive was the largest I remember seeing about 4 months ago. I think SanDisk was bringing it out. Someone correct me on this one if I'm wrong!
Not big enough for me...but in a small notebook it would be purrrrrfect for my dad...
Hopefully my next laptop (I guess in a year and a half-ish) will be reasonably priced with flash
I read it as 1 20GB flash drive, so you could fit in 2 in a more advanced config.
Honestly though the layout looks like crap and not up to apple standards.
My vote is for fake. Find out in 3 days though.
Honestly though the layout looks like crap and not up to apple standards.
My vote is for fake. Find out in 3 days though.
Let's see, 16gb flash drives are priced around $150.
So 7.5 of those would be 120gb and cost $1125.
Assuming Apple gets the flash for half the retail price, they would still be spending over $500 dollars per laptop on the drive, compared to under $100 today.
Seems like a long shot.
Although, I also found this article which mentions rumors of an flash based notebook by Apple.
I vote fake.
So 7.5 of those would be 120gb and cost $1125.
Assuming Apple gets the flash for half the retail price, they would still be spending over $500 dollars per laptop on the drive, compared to under $100 today.
Seems like a long shot.
Although, I also found this article which mentions rumors of an flash based notebook by Apple.
I vote fake.
To be fair, we really can't be sure from this photo that the stage isn't built into a really, really big elevator.
Oh, you can get way bigger, but it's gonna cost.
The bastart needs to be a man and come out about the truth of this picture. HAHA you got your 5 hours of forum fame.
....right?
....right?
And let me guess, this phot was taken with a iPhone nonetheless?
Maybe that 120Gb should read 1 20gb HDD, as in a single one?
Maybe that 120Gb should read 1 20gb HDD, as in a single one?
yes
Traditionally, Steve Jobs and Apple go through several rehearsals running through the entire event. The Keynote is treated as a true performance, complete with tech rehearsals and run-throughs. Whether a tablet or ultra-thin Macbook, the use of a 120G Flash Drive would be insanely great.
Traditionally, Steve Jobs and Apple go through several rehearsals running through the entire event. The Keynote is treated as a true performance, complete with tech rehearsals and run-throughs. Whether a tablet or ultra-thin Macbook, the use of a 120G Flash Drive would be insanely great.
Common Sense ...
Naysayers have it here. Why would a keynote presentation need to be "dry rehearsed" without the presenter on-stage? I can definitely imagine Steve wanting to dry rehearse his presentation, although I'd imagine that he'd rely on his monitors, not the projection screen behind him. Besides which, we all know his dry runs are done in a french elevator.
IMHO, assuming the submitter has the best intentions there's still the very real possibility of the guys testing the projection system throwing together this "fun" slide to make sure things work from Keynote to the displays. I mean, seriously, this bears all the hallmarks of a test slide: simple enough to create in less than five minutes, bearing a sense of humor from the geeky author, and visually pretty ugly (G3/HSDPA/802.11x???) It's A/V geek porn. I would imagine that there are several people involved in the mechanics of preparing for the keynote at this stage, and have a very hard time believing that they would be made privy to any actual presentation details.
A year or two back there was an hour-by-hour look at Steve preparing for a keynote presentation published somewhere. I wonder if that would shed some light on this particular situation. Anyone remember that article?
[Edit: Fun mind experiment: Pretend this WAS real. Imagine Steve walking into the room and seeing his hitherto-fore top-secret device description emblazoned on the screen. How many people involved in putting this image on the screen would remain breathing five minutes later?]
Naysayers have it here. Why would a keynote presentation need to be "dry rehearsed" without the presenter on-stage? I can definitely imagine Steve wanting to dry rehearse his presentation, although I'd imagine that he'd rely on his monitors, not the projection screen behind him. Besides which, we all know his dry runs are done in a french elevator.
IMHO, assuming the submitter has the best intentions there's still the very real possibility of the guys testing the projection system throwing together this "fun" slide to make sure things work from Keynote to the displays. I mean, seriously, this bears all the hallmarks of a test slide: simple enough to create in less than five minutes, bearing a sense of humor from the geeky author, and visually pretty ugly (G3/HSDPA/802.11x???) It's A/V geek porn. I would imagine that there are several people involved in the mechanics of preparing for the keynote at this stage, and have a very hard time believing that they would be made privy to any actual presentation details.
A year or two back there was an hour-by-hour look at Steve preparing for a keynote presentation published somewhere. I wonder if that would shed some light on this particular situation. Anyone remember that article?
[Edit: Fun mind experiment: Pretend this WAS real. Imagine Steve walking into the room and seeing his hitherto-fore top-secret device description emblazoned on the screen. How many people involved in putting this image on the screen would remain breathing five minutes later?]
"Flash based" should be hyphenated, "120" should be 128, and the entire line "120 GB Flash based drive" is just too ambiguous... and yet too specific. Obviously it implied storage, but would Apple say "drive" or would they say "disk drive?" Would they say "Flash based drive" or would they say, "SSD" or use one of the other many (more professional sounding) names for it?
Then on the specific side of things, why would the HDD be nailed down at exactly 120 GB but the processor be (ambiguously) just "Intel Core 2 Duo?"
Too many loose ends here. I'm leaning heavily towards fake.
-Clive
Then on the specific side of things, why would the HDD be nailed down at exactly 120 GB but the processor be (ambiguously) just "Intel Core 2 Duo?"
Too many loose ends here. I'm leaning heavily towards fake.
-Clive
The text on the silde
I read it as:
Standard Features
120 GB Flash based drive
Intel Core 2 Duo
10" LED Widescreen
Programmable LCD Keyboard
3G HSDPA, 802.11n
The only major flaw is that flash (almost?) always comes in 2^n size multiples, which would make a 128GB drive size more believable. Still, the whole thing seems nice but likely WAY too expensive to be marketable. 32-gb flash drives are running about $300 OEM cost, so a 128 would probably be at LEAST $1000 for the drive alone. This would push the cost of the complete unit into the $3000 range, I bet.
I read it as:
Standard Features
120 GB Flash based drive
Intel Core 2 Duo
10" LED Widescreen
Programmable LCD Keyboard
3G HSDPA, 802.11n
The only major flaw is that flash (almost?) always comes in 2^n size multiples, which would make a 128GB drive size more believable. Still, the whole thing seems nice but likely WAY too expensive to be marketable. 32-gb flash drives are running about $300 OEM cost, so a 128 would probably be at LEAST $1000 for the drive alone. This would push the cost of the complete unit into the $3000 range, I bet.
I agree with the poster who mentioned the "120GB" flash drive.It actually looks like 20GB flash drive with a smaller "1" to the left like it has an annotation..meaning scroll down to where the "1" is and it might say "upgrade to 32GB for $300 more.Or something like that.
And the scene itself .Even though I believe it to be fake,could actually be in a presentation area at WWDC.
And the scene itself .Even though I believe it to be fake,could actually be in a presentation area at WWDC.
Anyways I can tell you all if it's real or not in real time sometime between 2 days 19 hours 20 minutes from now and 2 days 22 hours from now.
Just watch MacRumors Live Coverage of the keynote. If this slide is for real, there'll be a shot of it.
AFAIK It can't be 120GB and be real though- all flash drives are done in certain increments...kind of like our RAM.
What sizes have the flash based iPods been?
Shuffle 1G: 512MB, 1024MB (1GB)
Shuffle 2G: 1024MB (1GB)
Nano: 1024MB, 2048MB, 4096MB, 8192MB (1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB)
and SSD's? So far I've seen:
16GB
32GB
64GB
*128*GB planned
Just watch MacRumors Live Coverage of the keynote. If this slide is for real, there'll be a shot of it.
AFAIK It can't be 120GB and be real though- all flash drives are done in certain increments...kind of like our RAM.
What sizes have the flash based iPods been?
Shuffle 1G: 512MB, 1024MB (1GB)
Shuffle 2G: 1024MB (1GB)
Nano: 1024MB, 2048MB, 4096MB, 8192MB (1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB)
and SSD's? So far I've seen:
16GB
32GB
64GB
*128*GB planned