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New Mac Mini Packaging Spy Shot
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I can't count on one hand the number of spare keyboards, desktops, or mice I have laying around the house.
I hope we can get these with 7200 RPM hard drives. Laptop drives are already slow; 5400RPM drives are sheer torture.
I'm no expert at spotting fakes, but is that a valid comparison? If the edges you're referring to are the edges of the mini, then you're comparing the edges of a picture with the edges of a real 3-D object.
Current Latest Mac Mini = 10 vents
Box of Current Latest Mac Mini = 10 vents
Initial Leaked Photo of new Mac Mini = 10 vents
Video of leaked New Mac Mini = 10 vents
Leaked Photo of Box of New Mac Mini = 9 vents
Someone double check my work, please
I know. I still have a monitor from 2004 that i still use with my PowerBook while my friend's iMac's screen has lines on it. So an detached monitor is a good thing. Monitors sometimes fail while some outlast the computer. Although dad still uses the PC this monitor came with.
No. Really. I'm curious as to how so many of the naysayers who are calling this 'fake' would have gone about faking each of these? Especially the video.
Personally, I know how I'd fake the box. Not difficult.
But the original image did not appear to be digitally altered. And in order to digitally alter something like that, it would have taken a considerable amount of time.
So did someone spend the time getting a new back panel molded out of plastic then affix it to the back of an existing Mac Mini and film it?
Do you really think someone would go through all of the time, trouble, and cost just to pull of this hoax?
Guess we'll see tomorrow. Or possibly Next Tuesday
The photo/video Minis had 10 vents, just like the current and previous Intel models. The G4 version had lots more.
I can't imagine why a Photoshop job would remove a vent hole when there's space for it in the mock up and less work to simply leave it in.
Just like everyone else, I have no idea if this is real or not, but I hope the real thing is similar to this in terms of ports (eSATA would be too much to hope for). I still think it's easy enough to have faked this and the previous "leaks", but they're plausible as well.
You fake a physical object and then take unmodified pictures/video of it. There are lots of talented hardware hackers that could pull a case mod like that off.
Current Latest Mac Mini = 10 vents
Box of Current Latest Mac Mini = 10 vents
Initial Leaked Photo of new Mac Mini = 10 vents
Video of leaked New Mac Mini = 10 vents
Leaked Photo of Box of New Mac Mini = 9 vents
Someone double check my work, please
That is true!
Let's see if later on today we get another pic of a boxed up mini with 12 usb ports, a la http://9to5mac.com/imac-12-usb-ports
There are folks who know how to work with plastic. Someone could have either modified a real Mini or even made an empty case entirely from scratch. That's certainly believable.
Once they have that in hand, making photos, videos, and packages showing this very real object (but not a real Mac) are all easy to do.
For the record, I am leaning towards these computer specs being real, but I certainly believe all this media would be easy to fake. It's certainly possible that one of these leaks is real and the others are not real!
Lots of us use the Mac Mini as a media server and a refresh to a better job with HD video would be nice. Plus it initially existed to convert people from PCs. PC users just swap the box and they're converted. Easy!
I agree this would be nice, but I doubt we'll see 7200 RPM standard. At least higher capacity drives have higher read speeds, so if 250 GB was standard, you'd see an improvement.
If it bothers you, upgrade the drive yourself. It's really quite easy and satisfying.
Current Latest Mac Mini = 10 vents
Box of Current Latest Mac Mini = 10 vents
Initial Leaked Photo of new Mac Mini = 10 vents
Video of leaked New Mac Mini = 10 vents
Leaked Photo of Box of New Mac Mini = 9 vents
Someone double check my work, please
Well at least we have some sort of deductive reasoning going on here. It beats all the other posts along the lines of "It's fake because I said so!!!"
With all that aside, real or not, i'm not a big fan of the packaging. I think it would look a bit better if they had a picture of the mini on the outside instead of displaying it through plastic. It kinda reminds me of how they display cheap barbie toys.
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In regards to the comment about the box showing the back of the computer, I just wanted to point out that Apple has been doing that on several of their products. The AppleTV, Airport Extreme, and I think the current Mac Mini even all have the back of the product on the back of the box, which appears to be what we're seeing in this picture (considering the lack of the Mac Mini moniker and the smaller logos). Just thought I'd point out that it is visually consistent with the current Apple packaging.
With that said, I expect the Mac Mini's packaging to shrink from it's current size with this revision, dramatically if (as has been suggested) they integrate the power supply, but even if not, I expect a significantly smaller box.
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With that said, I expect the Mac Mini's packaging to shrink from it's current size with this revision, dramatically if (as has been suggested) they integrate the power supply, but even if not, I expect a significantly smaller box.
jW
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I found the video the least convincing pieve of evidence. I would have picked up the mini to show all 6 faces, but this would have made it harder to digitally paste the fake back onto it. By rotating smoothly on a table, it was much easier to anchor the fake image.
It's impressive yes, but there are many talented digital imagers out there and they like to show off (fair enough).
Current Latest Mac Mini = 10 vents
Box of Current Latest Mac Mini = 10 vents
Initial Leaked Photo of new Mac Mini = 10 vents
Video of leaked New Mac Mini = 10 vents
Leaked Photo of Box of New Mac Mini = 9 vents
Someone double check my work, please
It could be that the video of the leaked new Mac Mini was still a concept, and the final product only has 9 vents.
Probably fake
Why would they wrap the computer in plastic? Looks cheap. Apple likes to design their packaging as much as their products. Well, maybe a little less so in recent years.
You know Apple is on it's way to "Billions Sold" when they start packaging their computers like common commodities.
Why would they wrap the computer in plastic? Looks cheap. Apple likes to design their packaging as much as their products. Well, maybe a little less so in recent years.
You know Apple is on it's way to "Billions Sold" when they start packaging their computers like common commodities.