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Slim Aluminum MacBooks Soon

Tiger or Leopard

I am still holding out for my pipe dream of another 12" (but not sure my current will hang on that long). If whatever they launch comes out in January, it will no doubt be on Leopard, which I would not want to use as my primary OS until a .1 release. Especially as FileMaker 9.0 and below will not be compatible. I may get stuck on a 13" MacBook anyway.
 
Notaclone said:
I am still holding out for my pipe dream of another 12" (but not sure my current will hang on that long). If whatever they launch comes out in January, it will no doubt be on Leopard, which I would not want to use as my primary OS until a .1 release. Especially as FileMaker 9.0 and below will not be compatible. I may get stuck on a 13" MacBook anyway.
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See, I was the same way and I really had reservations about getting the MacBook for that reason. . . but I find that in practical use, I hardly notice. To me, the difference is negligible. The only difference for me was that I had to buy a new case. ^_^
 
Correctamundo

Notaclone said:
But for me, somehow it's just too perfect that the 12" is exactly the size of a sheet of Letter size paper. It was the glass slipper of all laptops!
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Exactly nothing has come close since and everybody knows it ! It was a real classic i can see a 13" mbp soon. Apple is going all out with the switchers so macbooks will be cheaper just don't expect anything too powerfull that's a pipe dream.They will keep the distinction in their range if not widen the gap. The macbooks for me are "hairdressers" laptops !
 
I just bought a Macbook yesterday .. Here's to hoping either the new Macbook comes out within 14 days or comes out in a while down the road so that I felt like I got my money's worth from this Macbook. ;)
 
Be nice if they actually had graphics cards in the middle - top end models, or this fabled 13inch macbook pro, wishful thinking eh? gets you no where...
 
Liamf555 said:
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Has to be my favourite so far:D
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I love you.....
 
What would be really cool...

Why not have the laptop come in two pieces with the detachable keyboard communicating via bluetooth with the rest of it.

Then, when you want more portability, you can just take the screen section, which incredibly, seems to work just like an iPhone/iPod Touch, only with the real Mac OSX...
 
Tumeg101 said:
My mom just brought up a good point...

I told her that the new MacBooks might just be gray and black, and she was like... :eek:
She really thinks they need to do color, because she wants a colorful one that stands out (she is waiting for the new macbooks, our whole family is, we are all switching to macs and she wants one because it stands out, and others will be like "omg she has a mac,")
Anyway... she said that apple really needs to do colors that stand out, because when you walk into a coffee shop, or a hot spot, you look around and just see a gray laptops (psshh... PC's) and then you see a white one... it stands out, you look at it, you see the apple, "Oooo that's cool! I want one!"

Colors would be good for publicity for apple, if they just do gray and black... they will blend in, and be 'just another laptop'
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DELL is doing the color phase. Apple did colors before. They are now focusing on a PROFESSIONAL LOOK.

Aluminum, Charcoal/Black.
 
TurboSC said:
It just seems odd to me that Apple would dedicate that huge of a touchpad space and give it a nice enough display to use as coverflow... I think the new laptops will have maybe a larger trackpad area but nothing to the effect of a second screen, just doesn't look smooth to me.
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Could always include a Tablet Pen for Graphics Pros that could use that space.
 
Touch Screen on the pad?

Try the screen only.

QA would be a nightmare. Upgrading would be a pain in the ass with the glass cracking.

Touch Screen on the actual screen makes sense.

Elsewhere is counter productive, distracting and only make the laptop more fragile.
 
youyesyou said:
I love this one :

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In my opinion, the best mock up around ;)
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This is a nice one with one caveat:

The keys need clearance when closing the lid. Flat glass uniform across the entire surface area would be impossible for this model, unless as you opened the lid the Keyboard keys on set of springs extends above the surface of the keyboard layout and retracts below the flush line when closing the lid.

This would be slick, but adds complexity to the design and increases the chances for mechanical springs ala Hook's law to fail. They'd have to certified for at least 50,000 open/close operations to get people from filing lawsuits.

They could have a magnetic connector to lock into close position then when the field is broken the inlaid keyboard raises to it's peak. There would need to be a Kinematic control system that would work in conjunction to raise the keyboard at a fixed rate corresponding to the angle of the front lid.

The new keyboard keys are .2 centimeters above their aluminum surface. The angle would have to be with room for tolerance enough to clear that.

The depth of the keyboard keys from the ESC to the control is 10.5 cm.

Inverse tangent of (2/10.5) = 1.09 degrees.

So say they employ a 5 degree requirement [the lid roughly 0.92 centimeters above the surface of the keyboard plating which is almost the exact same height when a standard iBook G4 1Ghz goes into sleep mode] to raise the keyboard from sleep and to the top for optimal striking. [overkill but would keep people from opening closing too fast and screwing stuff up]

That would make that design very slick. Of course raising the entire surface plate with the integrated keyboard intact would be the most feasible and replaceable if anything goes wrong.
 
mdriftmeyer said:
This is a nice one with one caveat:

The keys need clearance when closing the lid. Flat glass uniform across the entire surface area would be impossible for this model, unless as you opened the lid the Keyboard keys on set of springs extends above the surface of the keyboard layout and retracts below the flush line when closing the lid.

This would be slick, but adds complexity to the design and increases the chances for mechanical springs ala Hook's law to fail. They'd have to certified for at least 50,000 open/close operations to get people from filing lawsuits.

They could have a magnetic connector to lock into close position then when the field is broken the inlaid keyboard raises to it's peak. There would need to be a Kinematic control system that would work in conjunction to raise the keyboard at a fixed rate corresponding to the angle of the front lid.

The new keyboard keys are .2 centimeters above their aluminum surface. The angle would have to be with room for tolerance enough to clear that.

The depth of the keyboard keys from the ESC to the control is 10.5 cm.

Inverse tangent of (2/10.5) = 1.09 degrees.

So say they employ a 5 degree requirement [the lid roughly 0.92 centimeters above the surface of the keyboard plating which is almost the exact same height when a standard iBook G4 1Ghz goes into sleep mode] to raise the keyboard from sleep and to the top for optimal striking. [overkill but would keep people from opening closing too fast and screwing stuff up]

That would make that design very slick. Of course raising the entire surface plate with the integrated keyboard intact would be the most feasible and replaceable if anything goes wrong.
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:confused: waaaaa?
 
Unless this thing is gonna have flash memory and a flash hdd, how can it be so thin?

You cant go thinner than a typical laptop hdd, nor the typical slot load drive.

Dont know bout some of the concept photos in this thread. :p
 
Sdashiki said:
Unless this thing is gonna have flash memory and a flash hdd, how can it be so thin?

You cant go thinner than a typical laptop hdd, nor the typical slot load drive.

Dont know bout some of the concept photos in this thread. :p
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Don't count out a 1.8" hard drive.
 
Flash wouldn't surprise me (at the cost of capacity and lots of whinging of course) if this is going to be some sort of multitouch tablet type device (just speculating). If people are going to be picking them up, running their fingers over, tapping, rotating etc then a hard drive is going to struggle to survive.
 
Eidorian said:
Don't count out a 1.8" hard drive.
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Hmm.. I´d be tempted to do so...

Read/write speeds are poor for those drives and it could be pita to use them.

The hybrids (a nand and 1.8") manufacturing could pose a small problem too. They would have to adjust the architecture for both drives,wich could up the cost and make the computer...well more suspectible to problems.
Ok, they could go robson if the intell would have ULV mobo ready. At present,dont know if apple would design one solely for their MB Nano? Maybe?

So, I would bet my money on pure nand.

The "hyptethical-typical-user" of MB Nano wouldnt need a huge storage capacity to carry around. Just the basics. They could have the neccessary storage at the office/dorm or use web based storage.


That way apple could buy even bigger lots of nand,and thus squeeze the per/unit price of their purhases even more down. That would benefit their revenues in the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPod Nano sector.
 
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