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Latest Mac Mini Spy Shot, Probably Fake

This must be the 5 millionth thread I've which consists almost entirely of people passing off ill-informed opinon as fact. Why on earth do people say pictures are 'so clearly fake' when, as the evidence shows at the end, they've got absolutely no idea.

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt."
 
farleysmaster said:
This must be the 5 millionth thread I've which consists almost entirely of people passing off ill-informed opinon as fact. Why on earth do people say pictures are 'so clearly fake' when, as the evidence shows at the end, they've got absolutely no idea.

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt."
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Thats the way the MacRumors forums are these days. Whoever runs it practically encourages people to post crap, as MacRumors post crap themselves.
The existence of this thread is perhaps the best example of that.
 
farleysmaster said:
This must be the 5 millionth thread I've which consists almost entirely of people passing off ill-informed opinon as fact. Why on earth do people say pictures are 'so clearly fake' when, as the evidence shows at the end, they've got absolutely no idea.

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt."
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Because over the years, there's been plenty of "could be" fakes posted.

You'd be saying the same thing if we all said "that's real" to every fake posted.
 
does anyone really care?

Apple has announced the product. Its real. Who really cares what the box looks like? Honestly.
 
Fake!

100% indisputable no way in heck is that real. That fakester even went so far as to put one of those mockups in my Apple Store yesterday AND was able photoshop "About this Mac" describing the new innards of the mini. I could tell it was a fake in the store just by the smell of this machine. No mac computer smelled like that before. Man, what some people will not do just for the attention!
 
Kilamite said:
Because over the years, there's been plenty of "could be" fakes posted.

You'd be saying the same thing if we all said "that's real" to every fake posted.
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Yes, you are exactly right. I'm no more interested in reading dozens of people with no idea what they're talking about say "that's real" than them saying "that's fake".
 
So I've been wondering this for a while.... did the photoshop expert that used all kinds of crazy histograms and color comparisons (and little red lines) get fired or at least taken of the "photoshop expert" list?

sorry to resurrect an old thread
 
frimple said:
So I've been wondering this for a while.... did the photoshop expert that used all kinds of crazy histograms and color comparisons (and little red lines) get fired or at least taken of the "photoshop expert" list?

sorry to resurrect an old thread
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I've been thinking the same thing!

At least some kind of explanation or mea culpa from the so-called photoshop expert would be fun to read.

In fact, why don't one of these 'reporters' from these mac rumor sites follow up with the story and give us a 'de-brief' of the rumor, the expert opinions and where they went wrong.

THAT would be a good read. After all, we spent all this time on the front end (several WEEKS) speculating ... I think it would be worth at least one little article taking a look at all that went on 'in hindsight', including interviews a couple of those 'experts'.
 
Kilamite said:
Because over the years, there's been plenty of "could be" fakes posted.

You'd be saying the same thing if we all said "that's real" to every fake posted.
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95% of all fakes are range from quite obvious to blatantly obvious, though. It's a very rare occurence that fakes are good enough to pass for the real thing. Therefore it gets pretty lame when everyone pre-emptively cries "fake!" just to cover their asses. There should be a word for crying "fake!" at everything on web forums, it's one of the most popular hobbies on the planet these days. Spy shots of cars in development, leaked movie titles and scripts, scans of books... even crying "fake!" about various body parts on celebrities who actually never had them fixed.

The MacBook Air mockups were accurate, the Mac Mini photos were real, the iPhone 3G pictures were real, the leaked descriptions of the latest iPod Nano were real... they usually are, especially when they're coming from multiple sources.

What is it in human nature that makes it so shameful to fall for a hoax, that makes people go to great lengths to embarrass themselves even more by overanalyzing and dismissing the information, only to find out it was the real deal? Personally I'd rather be suckered by a hoax, than be the self-appointed expert who uses scientific methods and writes essays about why a picture is so obviously fake, only to be proven wrong and be exposed as the worst fake detective ever.

(The only thing that felt weird about the Mac one was the 5 USB ports. Considering how Apple are rather frugal on the USB front -- an iMac has 3 ports -- it felt rather unlikely that they would give you 5 USB ports on their entry-level machine.)
 
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