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Leaked Pics Inside of Apple's Prototype Testing Labs

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All good things were meant to be leaked...right? Just in case you weren't one of the lucky 11 journalist to walk the inner hallways of Apple's testing labs I got a few snapshots for ya.

You’ll see the prototypes covered and surrounded my iMacs, the outside/inside of an anechoic chamber of death, the dummy heads and hands used to test reception and a 3D cat scan of the iPhone 4’s internals.

More over at: http://theurbangeek.com/2010/07/24/inside-apples-secret-testing-lab-pics/

Enjoy!
 

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A couple more shots
 

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trekkie604 said:
That CAD program looks to be running on Windows?
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no if you look in zoomed in pic theres no close, minimize, or restore buttons on the upper right side so thefore they are located on the other side which means its a mac program
 
Imagine, right under there are new imacs, macbooks and ipods. Crazy.
 

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So is it worth waiting for the imac 27 refresh since i am planning to game. What is the step up between the 4**** and the 5**** in game playback.
This proves they are going to refresh.... if only someone would have grabbed the table cloth and showed everyone
 
ryan0402 said:
no if you look in zoomed in pic theres no close, minimize, or restore buttons on the upper right side so thefore they are located on the other side which means its a mac program
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To me, it looks like one program open across two monitors. Notice the different toolbars on each screen.
 
ryan0402 said:
So is it worth waiting for the imac 27 refresh since i am planning to game. What is the step up between the 4**** and the 5**** in game playback.
This proves they are going to refresh.... if only someone would have grabbed the table cloth and showed everyone
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Yea, I wish someone would have been bold enough to grab the cloth. If you look at the pics closely it appears that a few of the items are iMacs overturned.
 
I really hope so cause i was just about to click comfirm on my order when i looked up imac refresh and it said wait another month so i did and here i am
 
They don't use CAT scans. They use CT scans. CAT scans are outdated. If they spent $100,000,000, hopefully they can take images on more than one axis.
 
ddoolin said:
They don't use CAT scans. They use CT scans. CAT scans are outdated. If they spent $100,000,000, hopefully they can take images on more than one axis.
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CT scans and CAT scans are the same thing. It's Computed Tomography and Computed Axial Tomograpgy. There have been changes in the technology over the years, but they are the some thing. Both terms are used in Radiology.
 
AbSoluTc said:
So this is why they didn't catch the antenna problem..
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Yep, it's amazing how often consumer devices are tested in lab rigs, and only later do any human element problems turn up. (I can tell some good stories of such goofs that I've seen over the decades. Apple's penchant for secrecy almost assured that they'd have it happen to them.)

For FCC SAR testing, labs use those fake heads, called SAM phantoms. (SAM = specific anthropomorphic mannequin. Phantom = dummy body part) They're filled before each test with a fluid to simulate human tissue. A specific mixture is used for each frequency range to be tested.

The iPhone 4 FCC testing was done by an outside laboratory, as usual. The tests are automated, with a robot moving a probe inside the phantom's liquid in a grid pattern to record the power. It only took about four days for the lab to do all the tests, and another week or so to review and submit them to the FCC.

So the turn-around time is pretty good. The cost is also not huge, which is why people are wrong when they claim that testing would slow down a fixed antenna / CDMA model or whatever.
 
Millions of dollars and all they can come up with for storage are plastic bins you can buy at your local office/home store? Really?

I also must say, these aren't "leaked" photos. I am not sure the intent of the photos but clearly it was planned for someone to take the photos. Everything is covered in anticipation.

OP - do you work there? That would explain it. Somewhat.
 
coasterider said:
There is no Mac Autodesk programs, I have to run bootcamp for everything, AutoCAD, Revit, etc.
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Quick digression: I really wish Autodesk had true AutoCAD support. Not AutoCAD LT, not running AutoCAD in a Parallels VM, but true Mac support.

The days of the UNIX workstation are gone (HP, IBM, and Sun have all gone server only with their offerings), with only Macs being left. Autodesk should realize this and start doing more for OS X.
 
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