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Apple Sub Notebook Hints: External Optical Drive, MultiTouch Trackpad?
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geez, drooling.... now when your done with your laptop just put it back into the picture frame mode in the living room,that would blend right in.
as for the first photoshopped picture notice the background white light gradient stopping on the right mac as for a icon should be right there.
I might be a bit too late but i think the spy shots of it are FAKE because of the keyboard, it is an old style ala MBP keyboard not the alumnium imac/macbook type. Which it would be. Why would a new product have an old keyboard...
Oh but it would be amazing if it was real because it looks awesome
Oh but it would be amazing if it was real because it looks awesome
Piccie Anyone?
Hey guys,
I was bored so i've posted a picture of my PowerBook's guts, to give you an idea of how much space is taken up by each component.
Top left = fan, speaker, light sensor, PC card slot
Top right = fan, speaker
Bottom left>Bottom right = battery, Hard Drive, Optical Drive & PRam battery.
Enjoy
Hey guys,
I was bored so i've posted a picture of my PowerBook's guts, to give you an idea of how much space is taken up by each component.
Top left = fan, speaker, light sensor, PC card slot
Top right = fan, speaker
Bottom left>Bottom right = battery, Hard Drive, Optical Drive & PRam battery.
Enjoy
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Maybe half is a track pad and half is multi-touch.
In any event, I don't believe anything I see until MacWorld or Apple legal takes it down!!
Not seeing is believing
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Damn that's gorgeous.
its clear to me that leopard is already prepared for multi-touch:
1)coverflow file browsing
2)stacks and spring loaded folders seem explicitly built for a finger
3)itunes,iPhoto,iMovie -all seem 'finger friendly'
4)OSX variant on iPhone/iPod already capable of multi-touch input.
Anyway, if Apple come up with something as mind blowing as iPhone then they will have me again dipping into my wallet.
I've said ever since the iPhone was announced that Leopard would have Multi-Touch in it because the iPhone runs Leopard. I have been mocked, but looks like I will finally be proven right
P.S. I have seen that design online before and it was a conceptual design by some random guy from like 2 years ago.
Those look amazing...
If you did those in Photoshop, good job! Please keep up the good work!
After some research on the web, I want to point out, that these are concept designs for an imaginary Sony Vaio Zoom. You should check out the site, all the other sites link to primarily:
http://www.yankodesign.com/index.php/2007/09/18/futuristic-vaio-zoom/
This site also has some other nice designs to offer. So today I'm off from Macrumors and start looking at this page
I wish that the persons that create these awesome photo mock ups, worked for Apple!
Great job!
Wow, I want one even if it's fake
Honestly can't tell for sure if its fake or not.
Looks pretty convincing to me, but where are the speakers???
Interesing but that trackpad button would be kinda depressed constantly when using the trackpad. I'm not gonna go into the oddities because you can't really tell for sure with that bad picture quality. I would like to have one of those nevertheless
Interesing but that trackpad button would be kinda depressed constantly when using the trackpad. I'm not gonna go into the oddities because you can't really tell for sure with that bad picture quality. I would like to have one of those nevertheless
The keyboard is also very very wrong, its an old style one, i.e mbp style not MB and imac aluminium stlye.
What about the Video card people? If it's going to be ULTRA thin, would it be able to fit a card like the 8600?
Durability nightmare and a lawsuit waiting to happen. The entire surface would be scratched upon regular use and no, putting a sleeve around it isn't part of a laptop/subnotebook.
i think you're supposed to use your .mac account for permanent storage.
the last time that apple tried to get rid of the disk drive was with the first imacs. that didn't go over well. apple's pitch was that you can use the internet to send documents everywhere, and a disk drive was not needed. like apple does sometimes, their forward thinking was a little too forward. now, internet bandwidth for the masses, flash memory size and prices, and online storage are all improved; and apple may be able to successfully eliminate the built-in optical drive.
Why do mockup artists put the big button underneath the trackpad and give it multi touch? WHY not just make the button disappear and extend the trackpad in it's place, allowing the user to just touch the space the button would be in or double tap or gesture the large trackpad.
This is why I still say mockup artists haven't learned to think out of the box just yet.
I like the slim computer with the transparent monitor because it answers the question of how Apple may do the Tablet and the ultraportable with the same machine.
This is why I still say mockup artists haven't learned to think out of the box just yet.
I like the slim computer with the transparent monitor because it answers the question of how Apple may do the Tablet and the ultraportable with the same machine.
don't see why?The optical glass on my touch is well used and currently not scratched. If anyone can make it work Apple can, plus they have raised the expectations of people so high that anything less would be a serious dissapointment.
furthermore, the design with the full width trackpad won't work since your wrists would be resting over it when typing.
Personally I would imagine a twin screen 'nintendo ds' type of implentation with a partially 'mirrored' optical glass touch surface on the horizontal typing plane dedicated to the dock and input control elements.
The main problem is that the keyboard is not permenently retractable like it is on the touch. Apple are going to have to think very different to solve that problem.
One thing is sure OSX has demonstrated a completely separate evolutionary direction inthe iPhone/touch version that some kind of convergence of functionality must occur.
Whoever cracks it will steal the next decade of tech sales.
I must say, having used the touch as a 'couch computer' for a few months now that a big screen version would be a nice pieces of kit.
Yeah. and the track pad is leaning to the left side very noticeably. Besides. The button on that thing is disgustingly huge.
** Runs to bathroom to barf up lunch **
okay.... okay.... I am better now. I think I can hold in the rest of it.
I don't understand how "if anyone can do it Apple can" is a justified statement. And yes... the second of the statement is exactly what may happen this january. It's what happened in 2007, the entire year of 2007, lots of disappointment.
i can't wait for the 15th....
maybe i will even stay home from school to watch the keynote
Yeah I usually do. Macworld and a 6 pack is a great combo!
do this again with a complete glass input area where the keyboard is and I think your onto something. I think the entire horizontal surface will be a touch display.
the reason I think there will be dual displays is that the way a laptop is used requires you to interact on the horizontal and while viewing the vertical plane. Touch and iPhone dogde this by being both by virtue of the fact that you can hold the device and reach all the keys with your thumbs. You will not be able to hold and type on a single surface device - so mirrored display is the only way forward