Spy Shot: WWDC Presentation Slide?

[mainstreetmark]

Maybe it says "1 20GB Flash Drive". Eh?
Maybe that's one of the smaller presentation rooms at Marcone. Eh?

well, what do i know.

 

[balamw]

And it's green?

For old times' sake they're using an Apple //e to run the presentation this time.

B

 

[nightelf]

Fake. Apple use widescreen projectors.

 

[syklee26]

oh i am sure that notebook is coming....with a price of about $5000, to compete with Lenovo Limited Edition Leather-clad Thinkpad.

 

[raykhrud]

Hsdpa

huh? Though I cannot really read or understand the last two features, this looks super cool. (Maybe I'm being obtuse but what's a programmable LCD keyboard? Like the optimus thing??)

The last one seems to list 3G, *something*, then 802.11x. Can't read the something in the middle though.

EDIT: I'm realizng the 120GB drive is a big reason to think its fake. Why would a faker make that up though? Perhaps they are faked specs that apple was using on purpose so others in the room wouldn't get the full lowdown? Hrmm...

HSDPA is European fast-speed 3G, even 3.5G standard. It was created by Nokia and presents in its recent phones, like Nokia N95 or E90.

 

[mrparet]

Interesting but would apple really need to test the real keynote, somehow I doubt it.

Steve Jobs rehearses the Keynote well in advance of the event. Although, I'm not sure if he practices at Moscone...

 

[Chris Bangle]

its obviosuly not the REAL presentation but could be a mockup presentation which they carry out.? If this is real it says flash BASE, maybe a harddrive AND flash. If this is true I cant see any reason for it not to be real. appel tablet has been hinted at by people for ages. Maybe this is the ultraportabe. but 10inch screen seems small. Maybe its the 10screen ipod with core 2 duo.

 

[twoodcc]

120 GB flash drive? Right...

hey, we can hope......and hope that one goes in the touchscreen iPod also

 

[Mgkwho]

FAKE!!! That screen looks WAY smaller than the one at Moscone West. Also the font is wrong. And it's green? And the spacing is wrong.

Um...everything is just "shrunk" a bit. The font IS correct...it's taken from a camera phone...and there's nothing wrong with the spacing.

I believe it's fake. But your reasons for believing so are absolute crap.

-=|Mgkwho

 

[DMann]

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.

Quite true, flash drives need to evolve further before the price drops into affordability range. kuebby, Clive, and icrew, you're quite right about the 128G proportion. Must be a 'test screen' after all....

 

[Clive At Five]

I've got it!

It's the long-awaited PowerBook G5!

(I can't believe no one had said it yet! )

-Clive

 

[72930]

To be fair, we really can't be sure from this photo that the stage isn't built into a really, really big elevator.

My first laugh out loud at a post all day

 

[justflie]

Don't believe it. 120GB Flash Drive? How freakin' expensive would THAT be??!!

Looks like a bored student at university had fun with an empty lecture hall and it's projector system.

Well what about using the ZFS file system to put multiple smaller flash drives together? ZFS would make it all appear as a single 120gb drive. I wouldn't imagine that it would be the most effecient way to do it, but it would certainly be more feasible and less expensive.

 

[1000masks]

What I love is that stuff like this always surfaces prior to big events. That someone would go through all this for us fans. Like just when one rumor dies down an ultra portable device other then the iphone appears.

 

[kymac]

Look, its a fuzzy picture of Sasquatch!

Honestly...

hey sasquatch is real. dont hate!

 

[Clive At Five]

kuebby, Clive, and icrew, you're quite right about the 128G proportion. Must be a 'test screen' after all....

You would think that anyone who worked at Apple would know that it would have to be 128 to be remotely realistic. Unless it's just a low-level techie who made it... or some wishfully-thinking fiend on photoshop.

-Clive

 

[x13gamer]

You say the cost would be insane apple is putting out a smartphone in 21 days that costs $600 and yet you still are going to but it.

I read it as:
Standard Features
120 GB Flash based Drive
Intel Core 2 Duo
10" LED Widescreen
Programable LCD keyboard
3GHSDPA 802.11n

the last Line is too Garbled to read

Nice shot or Nice Fake

 

[Lepton]

Now for some 'real' speculation..

That's as fake as it gets. Here are some real educated guesses on what will be said at the keynote. It's speculation, but I batted around .800 when I speculated what the iPhone would be... What Steve will announce

 

[chuckiej]

Fake. Apple use widescreen projectors.

Quite right. All of you are. The stage is nothing like we are used to - it can't be deep at all but Apple's stages are always quite deep. The projector is not the beautiful widescreen ones they use.

Looks like someone at another convention center set this up as a joke (while setting up for a smaller convention) and decided to post it.

 

[paul.nord]

Message Text

Let's be clear about what we're all seeing in this image.
It seems to say:

1| Standard Features
2| 120 GB Flash based drive
3| Intel Core 3 Duo
4| 10" LED widescreen
5| Programmable LCD
6| keyboard
7| 3GhSdfa 802.11x

Or something like that.

Now... let's discuss this...

Line 2: Might say "130GB." Might say "One 30GB" or "120GB"
Line 3: Might say "Core 3 Duo" or it might say "Core 2 Duo."
Line 4: Might say "10 inch LED" or it might be "18 inch LED". Who would dare to call 10" widescreen?
Line 5: I have no idea what an LCD keyboard is. Sounds like a touch screen. Could they have put LCD's on each key of a traditional keyboard? Could it be a "two-screen" laptop... kinda like the Nintendo DS?
Line 7: Technical specs on a wireless card.

If line 4 says 10-inch then this is a super-mini laptop... or an iPhone on steriods. If it says 18-inch then this is the new iMac. Flashdrive prices have come crashing down. This description would match with the rumor of "striking new industrial designs aimed at leaving both competitors and onlookers smitten."

Or this could all be a great big pile of ...

 

[Chris Bangle]

2 problems

FCC and iphone.
would they launch this right before iphone coming? Last time there was a fake image, (ichat mobile) i believed they were real and I was wrong so i am saying that this is not gooing to ahppen but i do beleive the pictures ARE REAL but IT WONT happen.

 

[Clive At Five]

Well what about using the ZFS file system to put multiple smaller flash drives together? ZFS would make it all appear as a single 120gb drive. I wouldn't imagine that it would be the most effecient way to do it, but it would certainly be more feasible and less expensive.

There would be no way to do it cleanly or inexpensively. You would need a 64GB, a 32GB, a 16GB and an 8GB... four HDs... and a lot of space. It's not worth it to make it an even 120GB. At 128GB, you'd need two 64GBs or 1 mammoth 128GB drive (if they're even available).

Plus, if this is an ultra-portable, it's not meant for large capacities. I'd estimate that 32GB is all you'd *need* for a portable suppliment to your powerhouse computer.

-Clive

 

[Clive At Five]

3| Intel Core 3 Duo

Line 3: Might say "Core 3 Duo" or it might say "Core 2 Duo."

Core 3 Duo doesn't even exist. Nor will it at any time in the immediate (WWDC) future. Besides, it's possible that Intel will migrate to all quad-core chips before Core 3.

...meaning it would be Core 3 Quatro.

...and if that's the case, it most-likely won't have a mobile platform yet.

-Clive

 

[Turkish]

So. Totally. Fake.

I liked it better when they did stupid stuff like post G5 specs on a Power Mac G4 page.

 

[Armsreach]

anyone notice the highschool style curtains hanging around the stage, or the marshall entry level guitar cabinet and other band clutter? fake 10x