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Aluminum MacBook Pro Case Photo?
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Three holes could be a placement for the logo
I can understand why this photo could be a fake. However, it looks like these holes are a machine stamp and could be the hold placement for a logo which would light up from the center hole, and secured with the other two holes. I think a few weeks after the G3 release date we will hear a new annoucement. I could be reaching here but it seems like they are trying move the current stock with the student specials. Perhaps that's just a hopeful wishing.
I can understand why this photo could be a fake. However, it looks like these holes are a machine stamp and could be the hold placement for a logo which would light up from the center hole, and secured with the other two holes. I think a few weeks after the G3 release date we will hear a new annoucement. I could be reaching here but it seems like they are trying move the current stock with the student specials. Perhaps that's just a hopeful wishing.
It could be that the Apple logo will be a white piece of plastic stuck onto the back of the casing, just not backlit. It wouldn't be quite as cool, but it would still give it that same kind of look. But really, this just doesn't look quite right. Prove me wrong Apple!
You mentioned getting a product without 8-bit panels (don't exist), eliminating matte panels (speculative), and not offering BD-ROM (not in high demand). You did not give any example or indication of "mistakes with quality."
Your market doesn't. Approximately 10% of European households have a Blu-ray player at all. Compare to when DVD-RW came to mainstream computers--about seven years after the consumer release, with higher market penetration. It also had the advantage of being the first computer-playable movie format.
If you want the drive, buy an external one. Nobody else wants one enough to redesign the notebooks to accommodate the thicker drives.
That's flatly untrue. There was no thickness problem with the first notebook drives, because notebooks accommodated a standard-profile drive mechanism. Battery drain was not a concern because it was similar to CD-RW drives already installed in notebooks. Expense was not a large concern because a DVD drive was a drop-in replacement for a CD drive.
None of that is true here.
Yes, 6-bit panels do exist. They're the only ones that do for notebooks 17" and under. The issue was your comment about 6-bit panels, as though you expected 8-bit ones to be used.
There aren't any.
I think you're the one needing a lesson. What does design have to do with your BD-ROM woes? If anything, design is the reason there's no Blu-ray option in the first place.
I can't wait. I bet Safari will be much snappier!
Other than death, it's the only other thing we can be certain of in life.
just for fun...
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That's not very attractive =P
I've got it. This one is way better. A black MBP (like the 'Blackbook,' maybe dark aluminum) with a very light aluminum Apple, perhaps the outline glow, like that mockup.
Now that would be sexy (not. or would it? Someone do a mock-up, please!)
I'm not trying to get into your debate, but if you take a look at the quote in my signature said by Steve himself, then maybe you will re-think that last thing you said.
Personally, I could careless if a Blue Ray drive was put into Apple Computers.
Actually, I hope they don't, because then it would encourage me to spend $30 on a DvD.
One last one before I go to bed...
I quite like the look personally, and I think it works well with leopard 'theme'. It would have to be done right of-course else it could easily look tacky. But then the same goes for anything in life.
PS: i have designed products using brushed metal and LED's before. I dont mind creating it for you Apple...
I quite like the look personally, and I think it works well with leopard 'theme'. It would have to be done right of-course else it could easily look tacky. But then the same goes for anything in life.
PS: i have designed products using brushed metal and LED's before. I dont mind creating it for you Apple...
Also, the next MacBook Pro should have a black border around the display like the aluminium iMac.
Then it would be a "fully Leopard-themed" Mac laptop.
how bout a completely hidden apple sign that lights up around the outline once you turn the computer on? it's like those led outlined alienware trackpads? mock up please?
That quote is the exact reason for the statement.
A Blu-ray drive doesn't work for the aesthetics of the machine, and sacrificing the aesthetics of the machine for a Blu-ray drive doesn't evoke a "wow" response or stimulate sales. Buying the part from Newegg is around $500, so just imagine the option price coming from Apple.
Making the MBP thicker just to accommodate the option of a BD drive, when only a small minority of people even have Blu-ray capability just doesn't make sense. Only about a third of both US and European populations even has an HDTV; less than half that many have a Blu-ray player. The advantages of BD don't yet outweigh the disadvantages, especially for mobile computers. When they get 4x or faster BD drives in the sub-9.5mm range, then they'll be an option for Apple notebooks.
People aren't that excited to have it in their homes, and the low cost and high volume of storage doesn't give it the importance DVD had for data storage. It's just not that important, especially before appropriate low-profile devices are developed. PC vendors offering the drives as options aren't exactly struggling to keep up with demand as is.
Put another way, what's more likely to impress: a $600+ 2x Blu-ray burner option forcing a thicker case on everyone, or a thinner, lighter, sleeker MBP? Keep in mind that external BD drives are available now, for a lower price than any Apple option would be, internal or external.
So you are telling me the new intel iMac is more accessible than my old G5 iMac? Hmnn..
But you basically said earlier that Blue Ray had nothing to do with design (based on the quote), and now you are.
I agree with everything you said above, but earlier, I was just saying that design DOES indeed have everything to do with Apple not having a blue ray drive in their computers.
I really don't know how they came to this conclusion. I can imagine any number of ways this could still be backlit. There are holes in the logo to pass light from the LCD, or wiring. They still might have a sale
Actually, How do you know this to be true?
Manufacturers do not specify the bit depth of LCD panels. They only tell the number of colors it can display. This is the whole problem because with dithering they can exaggerate the number of colors and make people think they are buying an 8 bit display.
My understanding is that most of the older panels were 8 bit regardless of size. Many newer panels are now using 6-bit with dithering. The primary reason for this is to increase speed over color range. The response time on 8-bit displays are much slower and as a result motion blurring occurs.
I know that Dell has almost completely swapped out their entire line of monitors for 6 bit dithered displays. However I had heard that Sony still used 8 bit displays in many of their LCD laptops.
Size has nothing to do with 8 bit or 6 bit. It is all about color vs. speed.
Well said. Sometime we get all caught up in something, which has a simple answer.