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MacBook 'Brick' Codename Speculation
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Everyone is getting way too into this... it's plainly obvious that a "brick" is used to throw through a "window" to shatter them. A new product that we have been told will be ahead of all the competition. They won't be naming the code-name a blatantly obvious name like how power adapters are bricks and so on... it's just the code-name of a product they think will shatter windows. Easy as that.
My favorite theory is that it there will be USB, Firewire, and ethernet port (s) on all power bricks, specifically the Macbook air.
Waiting...Is Hell!
WELP, I've been waiting and waiting and waiting...
It's like I am 6yrs old all over again, and I know Santa will be here soon, so I am always looking for him...lol
I've got $3G saved for a MacBook be it a brick or not.
I am restless and curious to see what the "new" is in both the MacBook and the Pro.
I can wait until October 14th, but does not mean I want too...😉
WELP, I've been waiting and waiting and waiting...
It's like I am 6yrs old all over again, and I know Santa will be here soon, so I am always looking for him...lol
I've got $3G saved for a MacBook be it a brick or not.
I am restless and curious to see what the "new" is in both the MacBook and the Pro.
I can wait until October 14th, but does not mean I want too...😉
Vulcan
macrumors 65816
Remember when Steve Jobs introduced the Macbook Air he compared the electronics to the size of a pencil? Guess what? The average length of a pencil is 7 in. The US standard brick is 8 inches long. Go figure.
TEG
macrumors 604
I made the comment in the last "Brick" Thread, that recently Attack of the Show reviewed a new MBA-esque laptop that had two USB ports, and integrated an Ethernet Jack into the PowerBrick, turning it into an Access Point. Perhaps something like that for the MBA or even all the MB/A/Ps.
It is also possible that the use of the word brick may be directly related to breaking Windows. Perhaps a system to nativly run Windows Apps without having to rely on Windows or Copyrighted code, or even an enhanced development platform to destroy M$'s .net.
TEG
It is also possible that the use of the word brick may be directly related to breaking Windows. Perhaps a system to nativly run Windows Apps without having to rely on Windows or Copyrighted code, or even an enhanced development platform to destroy M$'s .net.
TEG
MattInOz
macrumors 68030
^ Return of the Pismo? Modular drive bays?
Brick might also mean we are finally getting a G5 notebook.
I saw a guy at the train station just the other day using a laptop that was about that size. Balanced on his knees on a seat that was not the right height.
Seriously the size of an iMac, probably easier to use an iMac as a laptop than a freaking big dell.
lol.... the pencil is 7 inches... 7inches squared is 49......4+9 is 13!!!......OMG 13 inch macbook pros. thats crazy...😀😀
Mac Mini Tower
SO all these companies are trying to make macs that sell cheaper and having lawsuits.
This could possibly be the one method to push through with a Tower style Mac Mini that will appeal to everyone that is not used to the high end market. Plus this would pertain to the aggressive point.
Thus a lot of people pushing for having less space taken up by the massive towers these days, while the BRiCK will have twice the power. etc
😀
SO all these companies are trying to make macs that sell cheaper and having lawsuits.
This could possibly be the one method to push through with a Tower style Mac Mini that will appeal to everyone that is not used to the high end market. Plus this would pertain to the aggressive point.
Thus a lot of people pushing for having less space taken up by the massive towers these days, while the BRiCK will have twice the power. etc
😀
Bricks are red. Maybe they do something with Product Red again?
What I hope is a seperate box/dockingstation thing where the optical drive and powerbrick is located. So if your on the go, you can leave the 'brick' at home and just have a lightweight Macbook Pro. The Dockingstation will be optional with bluray.
What I hope is a seperate box/dockingstation thing where the optical drive and powerbrick is located. So if your on the go, you can leave the 'brick' at home and just have a lightweight Macbook Pro. The Dockingstation will be optional with bluray.
Where else? What would the K stand for? Kentucky? Kazakhstan? (Greatest country in the world ) 😀
Maybe it short for Kubrick, as in Stanley Kubrick, the director and co-author of 2001: A Space Odyssey? Will the new Mac have HAL-9000-esque artificial intelligence?
Docking station is plausible. Steve Jobs seems to be having a thin fetish lately. Every thing is now "the thinnest... ever". If apple was to make the thinnest macbook ever and the thinnest macbook pro ever then where would that leave the air?
WAIT! I got it. The day Jobs announced the macbook air... he was wearing leather shoes. leather comes from cows, happy cows come from... CALIFORNIA..california became a state in 1850.... 1+8+5+0 is equal to 14.... 14" macbooks everyone!!! woohoo!!
Eric S.
macrumors 68040
Brick- the wireless server for other home devices.
The brick will be part of the foundation of your home allowing Apple to release a variety of products aimed at the home. It will essentially be a wireless server but what will make it interesting will be the related products. It will serve as an intermediary for Apple TV without requiring a computer. And it will serve as as a server for revamped airport extreme aimed at streaming music, perhaps a small touchscreen included. And it will serve as the home base for the tablet device which will allow you to do email, watch itunes movies, listen to music, browse the internet, etc, while sitting on the couch, doing the laundry, etc.
The brick will be part of the foundation of your home allowing Apple to release a variety of products aimed at the home. It will essentially be a wireless server but what will make it interesting will be the related products. It will serve as an intermediary for Apple TV without requiring a computer. And it will serve as as a server for revamped airport extreme aimed at streaming music, perhaps a small touchscreen included. And it will serve as the home base for the tablet device which will allow you to do email, watch itunes movies, listen to music, browse the internet, etc, while sitting on the couch, doing the laundry, etc.
Interesting point - releasing OS X into the mainstream could be seen as a way to throw a brick at Windows.
I really hope they don't though - the whole 'just works' comes from the fact that they choose and design the hardware to go with the software. I'd hate to see OS X go down the Vista road of compatibility crap and so on.
Old: Brick = Power Adapter; New: Brick = All-Terrain
In the past, the "brick" has always referred to the BULKY power adapter. Back in the "old" days (circa Mac OS 9 or less), power adapters for even small Apple Printers (made by Canon) required a "Brick" that was nearly the same size as an Earthen brick and at least the same weight. That's how they got the name "Brick."
So, I'm sure that Apple is NOT working on making a new power adapter for MacBooks that is huge and heavy like a brick. Rather, its most likely a play on words -- as a parody -- for a forthcoming battery technology that will be lightweight and provide long battery life, etc. Basically, new and improved ... used to be a brick, now look where we are.
Or not!
Perhaps Apple's going INDUSTRIAL and will have a Rough, All-Terrain, Military like MacBook. One that's good for all environments: submarines, desert, arctic, space, secret "launch codes" you name it!
Perhaps an answer to Dell's has their ATG line of laptops.
A REALLY COOL commercial for such a product would be along the same lines as Apple's iPhone "Hallway" commercial that's totally NSA/CIA like in nature.
In the past, the "brick" has always referred to the BULKY power adapter. Back in the "old" days (circa Mac OS 9 or less), power adapters for even small Apple Printers (made by Canon) required a "Brick" that was nearly the same size as an Earthen brick and at least the same weight. That's how they got the name "Brick."
So, I'm sure that Apple is NOT working on making a new power adapter for MacBooks that is huge and heavy like a brick. Rather, its most likely a play on words -- as a parody -- for a forthcoming battery technology that will be lightweight and provide long battery life, etc. Basically, new and improved ... used to be a brick, now look where we are.
Or not!
Perhaps Apple's going INDUSTRIAL and will have a Rough, All-Terrain, Military like MacBook. One that's good for all environments: submarines, desert, arctic, space, secret "launch codes" you name it!
Perhaps an answer to Dell's has their ATG line of laptops.
A REALLY COOL commercial for such a product would be along the same lines as Apple's iPhone "Hallway" commercial that's totally NSA/CIA like in nature.