This was an unusual exception, it was planned and controlled by Apple, and it was a one time thing Apple orchestrated to prove the Mac Pro in real world use to make sure they would be okay with the Pro user. They have no such concerns with a light notebook like this.
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This was an unusual exception, it was planned and controlled by Apple, and it was a one time thing Apple orchestrated to prove the Mac Pro in real world use to make sure they would be okay with the Pro user. They have no such concerns with a light notebook like this.
How do you know? Do you work with Apple? He wanted to be proven wrong, here it is.
Now prove me that Apple is not putting NEW products (not revision) into some selected tester to be sure that it would fit their needs (ie: Mac Pro, Retina Macbook Pro and Retina Macbook).
Apple have never done it with a Macbook before. They release new MacBooks several times per year and reviews always come on or after release date. You're asking me to prove a negative, which is of course impossible.
While my previous "never" statement was too absolute - the exception with MacPro just proves the rule. The MacPro trial was a PR move, with Apple publicly demonstrating how high-end professional users took advantage of nMP capabilities. This was basically a choreographed ad.
Apple also gave some selected developers early access to iPhone SDK back when App Store launched.. or more recently Watch SDK (but not the Watch hardware itself).
None of this would of course be necessary with rMB, which is a consumer grade product, requiring no outside participation or specialized / highly technical use cases to be demonstrated.
Also note how we didn't hear a bleep from these participants until officially sanctioned by Apple. Quite different from random people here spewing stuff here about their imaginary friends with inside access to Apple's unreleased products.
As I proved you that you were wrong, I think you could assume that it's maybe not the only time Apple let some tester try their product. I don't say they do this all the time I'm just saying that it could be real for some new products.
Edit: But anyway, I doubt that any tester, if they exist, would tell anything to anyone...
Anything could be real. Santa Clause could be real too.
It just wouldn't make any sense - not for consumer grade MacBooks. You have already been explained why. Believe whatever you want.
When the 17" PowerBook G4 was announced, they showed Aaron Sorkin using the PBG4 17" in the studio. See after 7:30 in the reveal video --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tntrznfAyXQ
I doubt he was spilling the beans on MR though.
And the leak of the russian guy having multiple pictures and benchmarks of the rMB 1.3 proves that there is definitively review unit/test units.
