I wonder if this guy is gonna get done for handling stolen goods?
Or paid a nice sized check from Apple for introducing the 'new' form factor in a discreet/social/youtube/covert sort o' way? Lots of competition on the market right now---nothing like whetting our appetites and surely with the passion folks have shown from the 'mini' design, anyone considering a tablet this fall---and for school, kind of a cool way to get the 'tease' out there. Nothing about function, the guts, the stuff
we @ MR are curious about
This is the irritating part! We all know for a fact what its going to look like. We have enough renderings, schematcis and a whole lot of pictures (fake or real) to attest that. There has been so many leaks, all of the same thing. Nothing which talks about internal specifications, camera, colours, new features, nothing substanial. Kind of weird! maybe the iPhone launch will give us some insight.
My guess---the 'housing' or the case as we see here, even the product in full dress is what Apple wants us to see (see my above response). Apple is fully aware how much WE want to know about the A7 the GPU, the RAM, the 'new' display technology (if it so exists), energy/battery---speed increases, weight decreases...et al.
I guess I feel the HAVE doubled down on secrecy. The 'guts'---or what is going to actually set this redesign apart from the 3/4 is only half the equation. The other half...that WE are interested in remains secret for a reason (and are manufactured by companies with much stricter control and guidelines as far as bringing your camera to work

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You make a good point. It might make sense to let case components leak to get people excited about the new design. The cosmetics are what people get excited about (see iPhone S grumblings). Keep the internals secret because that's their ace, that's what they play down but secretly rely upon.
I'm with you---110%
If all they did was radically upgrade the camera and made the next iPad less "bulky" then I think it'd make a nice upgrade for my iPad 2. There never was a compelling reason to shell out another $1k for a tablet.
I do wish Apple would update the Speakers on all their devices - the speaker quality on the MBP, iMac, iPad and iPhone are horrendous.
Not much you can do with speakers in such a thin, light device. They're made to enjoy most with a set of good cans. It does look like they may be going to stereo speakers in this case---that'll improve the sound somewhat

But it's tough, impossible actually---to create decent sound from such a device. Speakers need 'air' to move and to sound good...it's a physics thing
That's ridiculous. By comparison against any other tablet I've seen, the current iPad is still the sharpest. While I agree that DVD's should go with the dodo, there is nothing so egregious about the current full-size iPad design that it should be called "garbage dated."
It's a sign of the demographic split on this board I think. As a 42 year old, I still 'feel' young...but I've gone from playing vinyl and no computers, no cell phones to today's technology. I'm still amazed, and I've owned the original iPad version since release---what we've available for transport so easily, in such a small compact package---whether it be our smart phone or tablets, I'm really happy to be part of this era...and to be 'tuned in' to all of the intricacies. As I, too, am looking forward to the new GPU/CPU SOC---A7/A7x, the RAM, Wireless A/C, the list goes on forever, not to mention iOS 7!