Real Pic of New MBP!!!

[Mactagonist]

I am not impressed by the styling. Personally I think it looks better closed then open, and for a laptop you actually use that is a bad thing.

I am confidant that Apple will make it work though, or maybe I just really want to sell my MBA and upgrade to a Pro!

 

[therapistfinder]

Heh, I wonder if the whole screen is going to be multi-touch, what with the absence of a trackpad button and the super glossy screen (glass maybe?)

(Before anyone says "Z0MG, Fr00b" I realize that there is virtually a 0.0000000001% chance that this will happen tomorrow)

 

[Logos327]

Heh, I wonder if the whole screen is going to be multi-touch, what with the absence of a trackpad button and the super glossy screen (glass maybe?)

(Before anyone says "Z0MG, Fr00b" I realize that there is virtually a 0.0000000001% chance that this will happen tomorrow)

I really don't see computers going that way unless they start selling arm props with computers and monitors.

I think Apple has it right. Eventually, the mouse will be replaced with a large-ish multi-touch trackpad to go along with your keyboard (this applies to desktops and notebooks). You get multi-touch without the problems of muscle fatigue. (Of course a mouse would still be used for gaming)

Edit: I should say general use computers. Some types of computers would benefit greatly from multi-touch screens. Think of an iMac like computer in your kitchen that controls the music throughout your house and can be used for minor web surfing like looking up recepies

 

[Haara]

can anyone who deals with photography tell me why the top (meaning the screen) is perfectly clear towards the top and the keyboard is so blurred you cannot even see a power button?

I can't say for sure, but from my knowledge of cameras and cellphone cameras the "sharp" top/screen and the blurry bottom/keypad is plausible.

This has to do with the way the shutter works in a cellphone camera as opposed to a ordinary camera:

In an ordinary camera the shutter consist of two indipendent "curtains" that that move across the film/sensor, so that at a certain point the entire film/sensor is exposed (this to among other things make sure that a fired flash will light the film/sensor evenly)

On a cellphone camera (at least if the cell only have "photolight" and not flash) the "curtain window" between the curtains (these curtains may not even exist, and the "window" between them is only simulated in how the sonsor register the light) is generally much smaller, and there will be no time when the whole sensor is exposed.

I can't tell from what direction the sensor register the light, but I have seen pictures taken with cellphones that picture a golfer on the tee, and his/her club is all bent due to the "lag" in sensor light registering.
(registering the picture from bottom up you can get pictures of the club head hitting the ball, but when at the hands they are executing the "follow up" (don't know the golf term) of the swing, giving the club a curved look...

 

[azharc]

He's right.

Tested it out right now. Notice how the right edge is sharp while the left isn't.

http://www.box.net/shared/static/y2043uvcii.jpg

Of course it's hard to exactly replicate the JR image, but it's a lil' proof.

 

[Yixian]

From engadget:

Update: Our source just hit us with another pic, this time from the side -- it's after the break. We're also told that there's not one, but two NVIDIA GPUs inside -- we're guessing an integrated / discrete setup like in the VAIO Z, but we'll find out for sure tomorrow.

Update 2: Our source just hit us again to say that it's two full-on NVIDIA GPUs -- sounds like a hybrid SLI setup to us, which is pretty wild. Wilder still, they say the MacBook and 17-inch MacBook Pro aren't getting refreshed tomorrow, which we find hard to believe, but we'll see when we see.

WOOOOOWOOWOWOO00O0000WO0000!!!11!!! o____P

Is that even possible? SLI'd GPUs in an MAC?!

 

[waloshin]

New Macbook Pro Screen

The new Macbook Pro screen reminds me of my Ipod Touch 2nd Gens screen, thick black border with screen in middle and chrome frame. So I would have to say I hope this leak isn't real. The Screen looks to be floating; what up with that? I have been a long time lurker , but i decided to post my first post a day before the event.

 

[shoulin333]

From engadget:



WOOOOOWOOWOWOO00O0000WO0000!!!11!!! o____P

Is that even possible? SLI'd GPUs in an MAC?!

not SLI as your thinking, it is more like ATI's switchable graphics, can use only one at a time, but use the crappy on to save battery, the better one when needed

 

[Yixian]

not SLI as your thinking, it is more like ATI's switchable graphics, can use only one at a time, but use the crappy on to save battery, the better one when needed

That's what I thought, but then engadget said that it's sources said in fact it was two "full Nvidia GPUs":

Update: Our source just hit us with another pic, this time from the side -- it's after the break. We're also told that there's not one, but two NVIDIA GPUs inside -- we're guessing an integrated / discrete setup like in the VAIO Z, but we'll find out for sure tomorrow.

Update 2: Our source just hit us again to say that it's two full-on NVIDIA GPUs -- sounds like a hybrid SLI setup to us, which is pretty wild. Wilder still, they say the MacBook and 17-inch MacBook Pro aren't getting refreshed tomorrow, which we find hard to believe, but we'll see when we see.

 

[amammad]

Why people have the need to see rumored photos about 12 hours before we know we'll see the thing, well, I never understand some things.

Why people feel the need to complain about other people indulging in rumors on a rumor website... well, I never understand some things.

 

[nomad01]

PC user here, who was planning to get his first mac tomorrow.

How the freak do you drag and drop with touch? Isnt it more of a hassle to drag and drop without a button?

It is at first... however, my partners Macbook has a non-working button so you do get used to it.

Wonder how the glass display touching a metal body will work when the Macbook is closed. Just imagine it causing scratches/marks. Or are there rubber spacers that I can't see?

 

[thespyglass]

Wow. There are lots of elements that make sense. And this JR guy has come through before, if it's really him. So... maybe?!

No button doesn't make much sense to me unless there's been some awesome innovation - Gruber's suggestion that "[the trackpad] is a button itself" - that allows for clicking and holding on the trackpad and dragging with a different finger elsewhere on the pad, as is often necessary in graphic design when manually selecting something, for example. And hey, it's Apple so there may well have been that kind of innovation. In which case: AWESOME.

I guess we'll know in a few hours.

I really, really do hope they haven't dropped matte, though! Losing matte would be the one thing that'd really annoy me. And many others, I'm sure. It may even be a deal-breaker for many professionals so I can't see them dropping it. I hope they haven't dropped it. Gah, I'm going to drive myself nuts on this place!

 

[StingerT125]

I like the way it looks and I hope they have them available in the stores really soon. I want to see it in person before I buy it.

 

[MowingDevil]

Some of JR's pics have been proven fakes before. I don't find his stuff particularly reliable yet.

 

[squeeks]

did anyone notice in the second pic the "battery eject" button thing, and the express card slot mysteriously disapeared???

sorry guys one of the pics is fake

even the "macbook" case pic dont match it

something fishy going on