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MacBook Pro 'Brick' Casing Photo?

Meh....

Let's hope we'll see one that's attached to hardware of some sort, on the 14th.
They don't need a "special event" to do it, either. They just need to update their website. Blammo. Done.

I think most of us can agree that the last few Apple events have been less-than-special anyway......
 
shrinkwrapped?

Perhaps it is shrinkwrapped in plastic -- though it would have to be pretty thick plastic for a reflection like that...
 
The 1/4" or so of space after the speaker grille could have actually been expanded to accommodate the wider 16:9 screen.
The mystery port has a sort of different indecipherable symbol next to it - maybe Apple is going to introduce something else than the mini DVI port?
After all - they are quite greedy as anyone these days anyway :) and new accessories mean money.
 
Extrapolating from what we can see and know the size of (the chicket keys), I make it about 36.5cm width, 1cm depth!!!!

Blimey!
 
Ohhh.. They Know

9 To 5 Mac know this is the real deal they just don't want to say it!

Speaker holes drilled by laser? First time i've heard that. Where did that
rumour come from?

I think were being drip fed information to build hype, hey its all about the share
price right now

SM/:rolleyes:
 
roland.g said:
You can tell by the reflection in the left hand corner that this picture was taken on a northwest headed train at 4:34 pm two weeks ago yesterday however the gps tagged date stamp on the file has been altered to indicate that the train was actually travelling in the opposite direction. It seems obvious that someone is trying to throw us off here into believing that this piece of aluminum is headed one place when it is really headed another. but the most remarkable aspect of the picture that I can't believe no one else has commented on yet is that if you look long enough and hard enough at the ports, what you will see is a sailboat. No wait, it's a racecar. Dangit, I lost it again. I can't seem to keep my eyes out of focus.
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LOL

So they try to make us believe that the MBP is going to and not coming back from China... Dang, they're good... ;)

Oh, And I saw the sailboat too...!
 
Maybe it's about the weight

Couldn't this be about a manufacturing process that will allow the casing to be more rigid while being more lightweight. We all know Jobs has been focused on making products thinner, but you can only go so thin. Maybe the next frontier is in the weight.
 
If it is looking like this will be 16:9, maybe that'll be alongside a blu-ray option...
 
It's good to see they got rid of that plastic edge around the top. I always thought it took away from the aesthetics of the laptop.
 
solemac said:
9 To 5 Mac know this is the real deal they just don't want to say it!

Speaker holes drilled by laser? First time i've heard that. Where did that
rumour come from?

I think were being drip fed information to build hype, hey its all about the share
price right now

SM/:rolleyes:
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Actually apple does use laser drilling for several products. I cant recall which one but theres one that has an led light shine through aluminum, or it looks that way ne way. Its actually a bunch of TINY holes cut by laser that allow the light to come thorugh, but your eyes cannot see the actual hole.
 
My take on the (visible) ports:

From left to right, we have Ethernet, FW800, 2 USB, mystery port (new video port?), then of course headphone and microphone jacks. Further to the left and out of sight is almost certainly the MagSafe connection, plenty of room available, and if this is a Pro, then the ExpressCard slot, DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort (whichever they use) and probably at least one extra USB are on the other side, along with the DVD drive either on that side or still to the front (probably on the side if the previously leaked pictures are real as well, considering the placement of the battery).

That new port is really intriguing to me, if it's real. It's about half the width of the USB ports (slightly less actually), and a tiny bit slimmer, but with the same sort of plastic guide and/or housing for contacts as the USB. In fact, my initial reaction was that a USB port had been photoshopped to half it's width, but in looking closer it's not exactly the same, possibly more rounded on the corners too.

jW
 
I love this design, anyways even if its real or not its still good news that a new pic has arrived finally!

AnDy
 
rammorris said:
Couldn't this be about a manufacturing process that will allow the casing to be more rigid while being more lightweight.
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Which would be solid aluminum cases cut from single blocks, wouldn't it?

Unless you mean to imply that they are using some kind of injection molded plastic. I think the photo is clearly aluminum and the shine is the plastic liner that can be clearly seen covering the key holes.

Aluminum is much easier to recycle as well, so I'd imagine going the all plastic route would be much less "earth friendly" which is something they increasingly promote, both in design and packaging.

We all know Jobs has been focused on making products thinner, but you can only go so thin. Maybe the next frontier is in the weight.
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Well as the products become thinner, they usually become lighter anyway. Less material usually = less weight. Unless they suddenly start using large quantities of lead in their case design, or increase the thickness of the aluminum (which the new manufacturing process seems to do the opposite), I think it's highly unlikely you'll see dramatic weight differences.

Form factor is the most important thing to them at the moment. The weight is already very good for their laptops, so any losses in weight will be the side effect of slimming the form factor, IMO. You also have to consider that if they do stretch out to a 16:9 form factore, that you have more surface area for components, which might alleviate the need to stack some on top of each other, allowing the bottom half of the clamshell to be slimmed.

The problem is that when you go lighter, you typically lose strength. Unless they suddenly decide to go carbon fiber, I can't imagine any injection molded plastic case being a better alternative to their standard aluminum.
 
NT1440 said:
Actually apple does use laser drilling for several products. I cant recall which one but theres one that has an led light shine through aluminum, or it looks that way ne way. Its actually a bunch of TINY holes cut by laser that allow the light to come thorugh, but your eyes cannot see the actual hole.
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The wireless keyboard - using it right now!
 
NT1440 said:
Actually apple does use laser drilling for several products. I cant recall which one but theres one that has an led light shine through aluminum, or it looks that way ne way. Its actually a bunch of TINY holes cut by laser that allow the light to come thorugh, but your eyes cannot see the actual hole.
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Oh yeah, the keyboard does that. I didn't know that's how they did it (but always wondered).

Edit: Dangit... beat again!
 
To what I was saying before, the computer (logic board) would slid into the top case (which wraps under to an edge on this pic) from below and the real bottom at an angle cause this piece goes back an extra inch in the front, so you slide in the logic board like a sort of letter into envelope feel. Easy packing/unpacking in factory and workshop. Then the display bezel will come down and screw into this piece and for the back side.
Then the battery would latch onto this. So think of it like this
|
|
|
| --------------== one piece
\_ screen


battery a separate piece to finish it
____________

makes sense and the computer componenet would slide in from the back to front

I wish I could make this in a drawing quick to explain my idea
 
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