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Photos of Apple Tablet Back Shell Leaked?
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Sweet looking prototype backface. Looks like a new product separate from the Tablet, or the Tablet guaranteeing a wide-aspect ratio with a bottom to house the hardware ala the iMac panel look.
Definitely faked, the tablet hasn't been designed yet . . .
CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of ****! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.
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CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple's new tablet computer. "Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you're running out of time," the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. "Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write 'tablet' on this little strip of masking tape here and I'm golden. Oh, come on, you piece of ****! Just stick already!" Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer.
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With so much of the media world adopting the 16x9 (and soon 21x9) aspect ratio, I would find it odd that the tablet would be square. If the display is widescreen, it would strike me as a huge waste of real estate. Apple usually goes for sleek and symmetrical. But who knows? Maybe the tablet has a chin.
hmm.. they'd have to be very good fakes.. I'd like to think that they are real.. I have a feeling they are real..
Macrumors said they would be updating, but I'd also open Engadget up.
Here's the link:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event/
This could be one big sob of a tablet. If either of the latest photo's posted are real the biggest shocker upon release will be the size to me.
This thing looks huge!
This thing looks huge!
Looks real to me. Very Apple-esque plastic covering along the top/side (depending on tablet orientation), and the dimensions seem correct.
Not sure, however
As a manufacturing engineer to trade if you were to build '000's of these then things like teaching robots to do the assembly tasks are needed and would form a key part of setting up the assembly line.
In my experience you don't stop the current line to set-up new ones if you want to keep it secret. For example the car industry do this in a closed shop then swap the kit over in a short space of time where needed to minimise downtime.
Yours twitching by the apple store.com/uk card in hand.
John
As a manufacturing engineer to trade if you were to build '000's of these then things like teaching robots to do the assembly tasks are needed and would form a key part of setting up the assembly line.
In my experience you don't stop the current line to set-up new ones if you want to keep it secret. For example the car industry do this in a closed shop then swap the kit over in a short space of time where needed to minimise downtime.
Yours twitching by the apple store.com/uk card in hand.
John
