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Aluminum MultiTouch MacBook, New MacBook Pro, and More

Macbook, maybe. MBP, hell no! the redesign of the MBP like that isn't even feasible, glass on the front? too risky. Now I do feel that the MB remake could be similar, but not that exactly.
 
cloudnine said:
I agree. If the MacBook Air had the same keyboard as the MBP, I would probably try to make babies with it... but with the black keyboard on the aluminum... not so much :/
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Maybe this is why they made the keyboard black... babymaker deterrence.
 
arn said:
ok, getting fake C&D letters now.

arn
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LOL! It's a trap. run! :D
I say it's fake, just because of the Tiger Desktop. But the next generation Laptops might just look exactly like this. I can imagine Apple just upscaling the Macbook Air and making that the new Macbook Pro.
 
MrCrowbar said:
LOL! It's a trap. run! :D
I say it's fake, just because of the Tiger Desktop. But the next generation Laptops might just look exactly like this. I can imagine Apple just upscaling the Macbook Air and making that the new Macbook Pro.
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Then it may be a bit odd that the Air is not just called the Macbook Pro 13" (although I do admit that this can be justified by the lack of graphics, matte screen etc.)
 
arn said:
ok, getting fake C&D letters now.
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Should've been obvious from the sender's e-mail address, should it not?

Or was it masked with an "@apple.com" or something?

Lametastic. That's okay. The MBP was hideous. And anatomically impossible... not to mention just stupid. Who puts a freaking bezel that huge on a Laptop? The goal is "small as possible," is it not?

-Clive
 
Interesting...

I sure hope that new MacBook Pros are announced at WWDC, because I am going to get a new computer soon, and may settle for an Air if the new MBP doesn't come out soon. However, I have to say that these look fake. Don't get me wrong- I love the multi-touch, glossiness, and, yes, even the black-on-silver keyboard. But it looks like someone clipped a part of the iMac, and pasted it onto a Photoshopped MacBookPro (even though I like the black border). The MacBook also looks strange, but it could be likely.

About the Tiger background (If anyone else has already addressed this, then I apologize), it IS a part of Leopard, and someone can hide the dock. More likely, however, if these are real, the desktop picture was just pasted onto the screen virtually.

Attached are a few photos that I think are far more realistic, and done far better, than the pictures posted on MR.

I sure hope that this is what the next MacBooks and MacBook Pros look like
 

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wasnt it pretty obvious from the beginning that the mockups were fake? I can't believe the story even made it to the front page. The pix were posted on the forums like last month. they looked way to fake and unpolished by apple's standards.

PS. i laughed out loud when i read about the C&D letters. hahahahah!
 
Digital Skunk said:
Yeah, but like with most icons, they were made way back with Panther or earlier. They have the blue Tiger background because it's been here since Puma.
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That's just not true. There is a MacBook Air icon in there with the Tiger background. I can't believe I'm even replying to this. My wife is making fun of me as we speak.

Also, that background hasn't been around since Puma. The blue backgrounds have undergone more than one revision, and the version you see there is Tiger. I have no dignity. Forgive me.
 
I can get down with that 17"

Hopefully we will see two HDDs and ALL available capacities as BTO options....

BluRay can shove it, but it'd be nice to have that as an option too I guess.


prezninja said:
That's just not true. There is a MacBook Air icon in there with the Tiger background. I can't believe I'm even replying to this. My wife is making fun of me as we speak.

Also, that background hasn't been around since Puma. The blue backgrounds have undergone more than one revision, and the version you see there is Tiger. I have no dignity. Forgive me.
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Sure. :rolleyes:
 

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As other's said...I still have my @apple.com iTunes account...even though I no longer work for the retail store. That doesn't prove anything....except that someone was a moron for posting their password on the internet.
 
"I can get down with that 17"

"Hopefully we will see two HDDs and ALL available capacities as BTO options....

"BluRay can shove it, but it'd be nice to have that as an option too I guess."


I think that the next MBP is going to be a lot more portable, and take on the form factor depicted in the images. All I really want is a larger Multi-Touch trackpad for MBP, and less weight. An SSD for the UI and an HDD for files would be pretty cool. Oh, and most importantly, a case redesign. That's what I'm waiting for.

If the new MBP doesn't come out at WWDC or sometime around then, I will probably get the MacBook Air....

But I really want a MacBook Pro-- just waiting for the case redesign.
 
macmonkey01 said:
I'm new! Please don't be too harsh! I'm a website designer so have a keen eye for little things.

These are definitely fakes.

RE First image of the two laptops:
• Obviously the Tiger desktops
• Grammar on MP ad is all wrong, Apple wouldn't say 'Now in Aluminum + Mulit-Touch (They'd use a '&' or 'and')
• Typography on both ads is all wrong, espesially the rubbish Photoshopping on the MBP ad.
• If Apple were planning to use these ads together, I'm sure they'd photograph the laptops at the same angle, which these aren't

iTunes 8 Ad:
• Apple wouldn't reuse old artwork from the iPhone launch

Support Page (ft iPhone ad)
• Old image which doesn't include the WebApps Icon
• Text at the bottom is squashed when you zoom in
• *Really Geeky* the mock Apple Navigation bar at the top of the page is wrong. The Support button (highlighted) would include the right hand edge, like the Apple logo includes the left hand image. Also the drop shadow is much heavier than the original Apple navigation bar.

Sorry to bore...
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...right, look, even though i think these may be fakes a lot of your points are completely wrong. I have a certain penchant for typography and design and my brain is automatically incredibly observant, some people may find this sad, whatever. Lets starts from the top....

1. You're right, its a bit odd.
2. Take a look at the homepage of Apple.com, did you see '2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo + Multi-Touch'? Yeah, thought so.
3. I work with Myriad Set (the specific variant of Myriad specially for Apple) everyday, constantly. The typography is correct, its Myriad Set. What does surprise me however is that the header text like 'The new MacBook' (which already sounds characteristically un-Apple) is grey instead of black.
4. You are correct, they are shot at different levels, this just makes the MacBook promo look more real to me however.

5. This did come into my mind for a moment but then i remembered Apple actually have used this old artwork for something else, cant quite remember what it was, MacWorld this year?

6. WebApps Icon? The icons are only put there if the user puts them there, what does not appear though are the two dots, however they could just be so small that we dont see them.
7. No comment, lol.
8. Again if we look at Apple.com/support you will see that when highlighted there is no edge to the box, next to it is the search bar and then there is a rounded edge and as the mockup doesn't have a search bar in it we cant really compare. However, when we zoom into the nav bar we see there is a small gray line underneath the 'Support' box, there is no line on Apple.com of course.

The MacBook promo is done well, very well, but the MacBook Pro is really quite bad, it is just the screen of the iMac with a relatively crummy line. And the iPhone promo could be real, but it would also be very easy to fake.
 
psychofreak said:
Makes it even more likely, but its no proof.

Maybe someone un-related to the pics is sending the C&D, or the leaker trying to show they're fake...
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That's an excellent point. Maybe Apple realized the only way to get something off the internet (or at least everyone's attention), is to send a FAKE cease and desist letter. That way its not automatically proved to be real, but it isn't in the attention of the public for a long time!

Or its fake...
 
Well, that was fun while it lasted. And about those MBP pics posted a few posts above this, they look too much like the MBA. I don't think that is what Apple wants.
 
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Surely said:
So....um....... if this doesn't qualify as a Page 2 story, what does?:confused:

This shouldn't be a main page article, there is too much evidence that leans towards the fake side. The Tiger backgrounds? That iTunes ad? The iPhone that hasn't changed- design changes aside, wouldn't you think that they would have at least included the App Store icon on the screen? The British spelling of aluminum? Too much wrong to think that it's right.


/I still like it here though :D
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Balance has returned to the universe.
 
Zwhaler said:
Well, that was fun while it lasted. And about those MBP pics posted a few posts above this, they look too much like the MBA. I don't think that is what Apple wants.
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Apple tends to lean towards uniformity in it's products. The iPhone's black+aluminum was quickly adopted by the iMac and the MacBook Air. The iPod nano, iPod Classic, iPhone, and iPod touch all share the "tapering" form factor, designed to make the device look thinner than it actually is (Don't ask me how they could make the iPod Nano any thinner, though...:D). Even the new iMac incorporates this (the sides are thinner than the center of the computer) The MacBook Air, IMO, is the best-looking laptop Apple has ever made. Aesthetically, Apple's design team would want to achieve a sense of uniformity among it's laptop line, as seen in the case design of the current-generation MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Thus, the tapered design shared by so many of Apple's products could come to the MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
 
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