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Aluminum MultiTouch MacBook, New MacBook Pro, and More
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rockosmodurnlif
macrumors 65816
bytethese
macrumors 68030
http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/al.html
Did you perhaps think Apple was a British company? Since Apple is an American company, Aluminum. 🙂
bankshot
macrumors 65816
No kidding. I couldn't believe they brought back that horrible look with the MBA - just reminds me of all the ugly PC laptops that tried to copy the TiBook (which also looked horrendous). Seriously, are they just doing this because fashion trends sometimes repeat themselves? This is one look that ought to be left for the history books.
If this is really what the new MBs and MBPs will look like, maybe I'll have to look for a deal on a refurb white MB after they come out. 🙄
DizzyRose
macrumors regular
The 'quad boxes' seem to be for the Australian store, hence the Australian iPhone box. Therefore, the spelling of aluminium is correct for them
hmm.
bayol05
macrumors regular
That's MY Mockup!
FAKE!! The photo shown for the MacBook is MY OWN mockup that I made while anticipating the Penryn MBP. Look, I am attaching it here: and look at my post from back in February too its halfway down the page.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/420044/
I created that photo in Photoshop in January, so this must be fake.
FAKE!! The photo shown for the MacBook is MY OWN mockup that I made while anticipating the Penryn MBP. Look, I am attaching it here: and look at my post from back in February too its halfway down the page.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/420044/
I created that photo in Photoshop in January, so this must be fake.
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bytethese
macrumors 68030
Sbrocket
macrumors 65816
I think what he's trying to say that everyone's missing is that because "Aluminium" is spelled correctly (from his point of view) it couldn't possibly be true since us Americans wouldn't spell it like that. 😛
On the other hand, I think the evidence leans toward the true side. What with the mock Apple store and various Apple IDs (with correct passwords and $8xx.xx in an iTunes account, some of which were for the @apple.com domain), it looks to me like this was a launching pad for Apple website updates. For which website, though? The UK site would explain the spelling of "Aluminium," and the sketchy photos with badly photoshopped (what do you guys think the people who make those images use, anyway?) titles can be explained away by the 2 months left to finish them up.
In any case, for this to be fake or a hoax would mean a LOT of work by some person to simply try and fool a rumor site and I really don't see someone, especially a past Apple employee (and the @apple.com address with the $8xx.xx iTunes account would not have been a personal email account). The guy would have had to make all those mockups, get an @apple.com address SOMEHOW (and I only know one way to do that), create all those pages with fake info, then tip arn off and hope he jumps all over it. That's a little silly, no? If you don't accept that that is the case, though, it must be true (or at least partially true, prerelease photos for layout purposes).
I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone, much less someone who works for a major computer company, would be dim enough to post personal account information on a publicly-accessible web page. I call BS.
BTW, I assume you've emailed them to let them know the world can now buy stuff using their iTunes account? 🙂
QCassidy352
macrumors G5
WRONG!
As has been shown here all he/she would have to do it copy some images from this forum.
People want to believe so bad that this is true they will discount the over whelming evidence that proves this is a hoax.
People like that are referred to as SUCKERS!
Dang, I had my hopes up then.
Surely that could just be you downloading the pic, getting rid of the background colour and text, resizeing it then re posting it again....... 😀
Oh well, who cares about the rumours, we shall see what the MB and MBP will look like after they come out, I spose.
Edit: AND! THE PICS AREN'T THE SAME!! The one here has a Tiger background and no CD slot on the front....
Adokimus
macrumors 6502a
ucsdmac
macrumors 6502
off topic: thats the title to the upcoming x-file movie.
on topic: I think its funny that as soon as macrumors post this article up.. appleinsider followed suit (without any further investigation)..guess they don't want to fall behind.. then 9to5mac will be next.. then it'll be on digg.. engadget.. then we'll have a full blown rumor to quench or thirst till June. 🙄
Sbrocket
macrumors 65816
Nevertheless, the fact that its a mockup posted by a forum user pretty much invalidates most of the material from the page, but I still find it hard to believe that the page was a hoax. The @apple.com account worked, and that means only one thing - its not like that was fake too.
IR, its in the same spot as the IR port on the current MBP.
bayol05
macrumors regular
You can't take a photo that small and resize it that big and somehow magically all that extra pixel detail appears...
Your MacBook looks different - the slot loading drive isn't on the front where as yours is.
bayol05
macrumors regular
I put that there as the IR receiver. I was taking design attributes from the MacBook Air when I made this mockup. The MacBook Air has a IR receiver like that.
i.maverick
macrumors regular
okay.. if these are true.. then they are keeping the macbook lighter. it is more towards white than grey.!!
maybe the black keyboard on whitish won't look as bad.
maybe the black keyboard on whitish won't look as bad.
