Hey, combined with a lower price ($899, $799?), the new macbooks could be the brick to sail through Microsoft's "Windows".
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MacBook 'Brick' Codename Speculation
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Hey, combined with a lower price ($899, $799?), the new macbooks could be the brick to sail through Microsoft's "Windows".
Brick???
What the hell...
But really.. all I wanted was for Apple to use the same material they used in the new Nano, and make colored Macbooks... like PINK!!
Seriously... didn't they have great response with the colored iMacs and iBooks???
What the hell...
But really.. all I wanted was for Apple to use the same material they used in the new Nano, and make colored Macbooks... like PINK!!
Seriously... didn't they have great response with the colored iMacs and iBooks???
*legit info ahead*
the new macbook wont come with a power supply. Just a cable. The power "brick" won't be there anymore.
the new macbook wont come with a power supply. Just a cable. The power "brick" won't be there anymore.
best picture ever..where's the elevator? Anyway, brick as in tablet is my guess. Goes along with the whole "product shift" possibly hurting Apple's bottom line from their last conference call.
The tablet mac will be here soon..it replaces the macbook and changes computers forever (like the ipod and iphone changed things). Physical keyboards and mice will be so 2007 after this thing is released...
They already have Air, Aqua and FireWire. Brick -> clay -> Earth?
... really, I hope all that "brick" nonsense turns out to be false. It's an ugly name.
... really, I hope all that "brick" nonsense turns out to be false. It's an ugly name.
Finally, were going with a more sustainable approach. Terra cotta. Shutting the new macbook would make such a lovely sound! And when you're done, you can tile a spanish roof with it.
Gosh, I hope the MacBook isn't replaced by a tablet. No matter how cool Apple makes a tablet, my productivity would go down oodles of percentage points if I have a keyboard with no tactile feedback.
Makes sense to me. If you consider the size (length and width; not height) of a regular red brick, it seems like a decent form factor for a small tablet / large iPod Touch.Please let it be a "macbook touch" tablet type thing. All I need is a larger touchscreen device with 1 USB port and I'm set
I'm going with the 9to5 line of thinking with the brick being a wired/wireless USB hub, probably with a pass-through power supply onto the mac. At a guess it may also have 802.11n and a basic print server. - Although the later may encroach on the existing airport product line.
That's why I think that thinking outside the box may give the key to finding out what this "brick" is. Nobody figured out the real meaning of the "rainbow" before the iPod nanos were announced, so maybe the same thing will happen with the "brick."
And when the true meaning of the "brick" is revealed (or if someone figures it out), the apparent obviousness of it will hit us over the head like a... brick.
Some speculation in this thread points to the "brick" being building blocks for a modular type design of the new notebooks.
That's a nice idea... after all, people have been working on charging through inductance for a long time. That is, you set your device on a charging pad... no wires.