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Metallic MacBooks Spotted on Apple Campus

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Appleinsider claims that "dark grey" or "gunmetal" colored slim notebooks have been spotted at Apple campus.


The report is reminiscent of a 9to5mac report that indicated that new MacBook enclosures made of black and silver aluminum had previously been spotted by their sources.

Rumors of a sub-notebook laptop have been building as we approach Macworld San Francisco. Our rumor roundup summarizes the predictions to date.

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It was probably a Foleo.
 
One thing I noticed from recent Apple hardware is that the screens are not sunken. Look at the iPhone and iPod touch - the screen does not appear to be sunken. It might be, but the way it is constructed make it appear not so. The same deal for the new alu iMacs. I wonder whether we'll see this in the laptops soon.
 
Sijmen said:
One thing I noticed from recent Apple hardware is that the screens are not sunken. Look at the iPhone and iPod touch - the screen does not appear to be sunken. It might be, but the way it is constructed make it appear not so. The same deal for the new alu iMacs. I wonder whether we'll see this in the laptops soon.
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Glass = weight? It's only really necessary to have a glass screen for touch control.

I don't know about the iMac though.
 
Weight is something I was worried about, too. Let's see what they come up with in a few weeks!
 
mill2000 said:
2 DVDs (9.4GB) - 20 cents each, 60 cents to manufacture.

1 memory stick (8GB) - $30 OEM

$30 vs. 60 cents.

which would you prefer?
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Honestly as a consumer $30, cos i wont ever need to spend it! and even if i needed CS3 whats $30 at the end of the day, its just pocket change, a paid designer will be paid that within an hour.
If i were Adobe however I would be a bit pissed that apple put me in that position mind.
 
Sound Evolution said:
Optical drives are far from dead. And if Blue Ray finally becomes a standard (a big "if") then optical drives will be alive more then ever.

Strange enough. I don't even see one post about the possibility of Blue Ray into Apples new super laptop.

With kind regards,
Bas
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I've been postponing the purchase of a Thinkpad T61 for 9 months because they promised a Blu-Ray drive on launch but haven't delivered. Suppliers can't make them slim enough. That won't stop me from getting an ultraportable Mac, where I don't need an optical drive at all.

By the way there is no Mac with support for either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray let alone an ultra portable, not sure what Apple is waiting for, but regardless Apple doesn't seem too excited about the future of optical disks anywhere in their line. I bought a $300 LG combo drive that does both formats, a Mac Pro w/ leopard can't do anything with it. Bought a quad core hdcp vista+ powerdvd pc for $750 with 24-bit 6 channel audio decoding as a Home Theater PC that does everything -- Media Center, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, High-Def tuner, PVR. Shame the Mac is so far behind in this area especially given how much they want to be the hub of media and entertainment. I have to conclude this omission is strategic not accidental.
 
gifford said:
Honestly as a consumer $30, cos i wont ever need to spend it! and even if i needed CS3 whats $30 at the end of the day, its just pocket change, a paid designer will be paid that within an hour.
If i were Adobe however I would be a bit pissed that apple put me in that position mind.
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Agreed. CD's need to get replaced, hopefully Apple will take that next bold step to stomp them out. My Step-Dad recently got a new XPS laptop, and I must say it's quite slim with a slot load DVD drive, so it'll be interesting to see how Apple tackles the issue none the less. I just hope they'll sell an external drive for cheap, USB / FireWire and I'll be good to go.
 
must be the new iPhone Pro

12" display, bluetooth keyboard, 3G, comes with a backpack as standard ..
 
jman2003 said:
well even if it has a hard drive look how small it is. just putinto the new macbook (or make it smaller)
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IBM did that in the X30 Thinkpad and it was a bad move. 1.8" drives are rare, small, and expensive. For example, mine shipped with a 20 gig drive at the time and was upgradable to 60 gb. But standard 2.5" laptop drives were bigger and cheaper.

IBM did manage to fit a standard 2.5" SATA drive into the later X series laptops without increasing size.
 
Peace said:
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3B48b Safari/419.3)

Sounds like Apple is ramping up it's RDF in preparation for MWSF2008.
This Mac spotted was more than likely a prop designed for this purpose.
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More like ramping up its WTF, eh?

:cool:
 
TurboSC said:
the colors don't work. it's like a MBP + a White MacBook keyboard + Black MacBook screen ?

too much going on there
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Hmm. I don't agree. The white keyboard is not just from the MacBook - it's also the standard desktop keyboard that every iMac comes with. The new Apple keyboard already has white keys on an aluminium base. The combination of colours - shiny black frame, matt white keyboard and aluminium is exactly the same as the style of the new iMac.

I never understood how we ended up with silver plastic keyboards on MacBook Pro - silver plastic is pretty tacky. If you're going to use plastic, it's best not to pretend it's metal.
 
I don't think the iMac color scheme came over very well. The iMac is metallic with black accents like the border around the screen, while this is 'just' a metallic and a black part. I don't really like it.
 
Foocha said:
Hmm. I don't agree. The white keyboard is not just from the MacBook - it's also the standard desktop keyboard that every iMac comes with. The new Apple keyboard already has white keys on an aluminium base. The combination of colours - shiny black frame, matt white keyboard and aluminium is exactly the same as the style of the new iMac.

I never understood how we ended up with silver plastic keyboards on MacBook Pro - silver plastic is pretty tacky. If you're going to use plastic, it's best not to pretend it's metal.
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You know i wasn't even thinking about the iMac... I think that scheme should be kept on the iMac, it just doesn't look right on the laptops for some reason... iMac did it right though, I love the combination on there.

I just hope they'll use aluminum keys and not plastic. :(
 
TurboSC said:
I just hope they'll use aluminum keys and not plastic. :(
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I agree - if they could somehow make the keys out of real aluminium rather than plastic this time, that really would be cool! It would be hard to have illuminated keys if they're made of aluminium, but the iSight light glows through the aluminium surround of the MacBook Pro screen, so perhaps it is possible.

However, given the single-minded way in which Apple usually rolls out a design theme across it's product range, I'd be surprised if the entire MacBook Pro line doesn't end up with white keys by the end of next year, starting with the sub-notebook in January.
 
Foocha said:
I'm pretty convinced by this rumour. Here's my guess at what it'll look like...

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I think that's not quite right (as other have pointed out) but I agree that we might see something themed along those lines to tie in with the look of the iMac and iPhone. As a mock up it's interesting to say the least.
 
The colors are pretty right, whatever this mythical device is, it will almost certainly follow the 'new' black/Alu feel. Al-la iPhone, iPod Touch and iMac.

If it's a tablet-format device (think iPhone only bigger) it wont have a physical keyboard. Apple have cracked the tablet-pc with Multi-Touch. No mouse required, no physical keyboard yet you can still interact with the device in any way required...I think the mod's deleted my co-writers post earlier in the thread for linking to our blog...but to be fair, this exact topic is covered in detail.

Its not going to be a typical 'laptop', the the Multi-Touch interface and the version of OSX that runs on these devices changes the way we interact with portable computers. They are focused (Safari, Mail, YouTube, Music, Video - all very defined and controlled functionality) yet simple (no input devices needed).

Exciting times.
Z
 
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