Slim Aluminum MacBooks Soon

[WannaGoMac]

I was literally just about to trash the home PC, make my current Dell laptop (which is a nice machine, for a Dell) the home computer. and Buy a MacBook w/ my Edu. Discount and $100 iPhone Rebate. Guess I'll be sticking w/ this Dell for a bit, here's hoping they have an other Event coinsiding with Leapord Release and ship these babies out. Hopefully they will still remain in the same price range, Oh how I'd love to pick up a nice shiny aluminum macbook for $899

hahahahaha.

A mac for $899

If you really think a mac that low is possible, I have a bridge to sell you...

 

[pavelbure]

well hopefully they will come before thanksgiving. i hope they have led screens also. since the 15" macbookpro has them it should be easy to get a 13" version.

 

[Digitalclips]

This is going to hurt the resale value of my current MacBook.

I wish something would hurt the resale value of a Mac Mini G5! I need one as a wee server and they hold their damn price so high lol ...

 

[williedigital]

It's just wrong to have this guy succeed through nefarious actions when all the other hard-working folks who followed the rules for so many years are left out in the cold.

Are you serious? Are you really considering the dissemination of macintosh rumors "hard work"? And what "cold" are others left out in?

 

[Cloudane]

So er....

Do you reckon this new slim macbook will have a G5 in it?

 

[bigandy]

is nobody seeing the correlation between this and this?

linky. it's this, skinned as a mac. i hope.

 

[jackc]

Flash 120 GB drive?

 

[dannyc1985]

Shifting away from white

Anyone else think that this shift from plastic to metal has anything to do with the Greenmyapple people? It seems that all the current machines are going toward metal. I wonder if there will be some announcement at Macworld about a Greener Apple....... perhaps even a limited edition GREEN Macbook! Sorta like RED for AIDS, 10% of the GREEN iPods goes towards environmental causes or something.

Perhaps board member Gore had something to do with this?

 

[0racle]

Am I the only one who *likes* the current plastic MacBook?

It feels leaps and bounds sturdier to me than the MacBook Pros. In fact, I've never been impressed with the aluminum portables from Apple - all the iBook revs and the MacBook feel like tanks (at least externally) while the PowerBooks (since the first G4) and MacBook Pros feel like they're going to split in half if I pick them up off the table one-handed.

Only bad thing I can say about the white plastic is it gets scratched so easily.

After seeing the ALiMac iPod Classic, I had a feeling they were going to move away from the white plastic on the MacBook's as well, which personally I think sucks. Having the Pro and not as Pro line's look different seems like a good idea. That and seeing a white laptop lets everyone know you're using a Mac.

 

[Cloudane]

Aluminium also scratches easily. My 12" Powerbook looks like it's had a close encounter with a Blendtec blender these days.

Yeah I quite liked the look of the white iPods etc, the new Classic iPod looks kind of weird (from the photos anyway, never seen one in person)

 

[Clive At Five]

The new enclosures have been seen in both Black and Silver aluminum variants and are "considerably slimmer" than the current MacBook and a bit slimmer than the current MacBook Pros.

WHAT?! This is an outrage! I see no reason why Apple cannot be using Transparent Aluminium (Aluminium Oxynitride). At a mere $15 per square inch, it'll make out MacBooks beautiful and indestructable. I'm holding out until Apple does this and will settle for nothing less.

ALSO AN OUTRAGE: Apparently Silver is the new White! This is terrible! White was very clean and pristine. No other PC-maker has a white unit. Maybe they're planning on switching up the colors and making white their "pro" color... I will also hold out buying a Mac unit this happens.

Transparent Aluminum casing and white Pro units... No new macs unit then. Who's with me?!

-Clive

(and yes, this is a joke)

 

[kddpop]

Here's a better link, just picture it in aluminum, with white keys, and rounded edges...

http://www.sonystyle.com/wcsstore/S.../flashfiles/product_tours/tz_series/index.swf

-Ado

no offense to you, but i find this notebook ugly. it's not cleanly designed like an apple product. the lights and buttons and printing along the front? just looks really cheap in comparison to the apple design.

thin is good. but it would take more than putting an apple logo on this one to fix the design flaws.

just my $.02

~kyle

 

[MikeDTyke]

As much as I like to read rumors, I am really starting to hate 9to5mac.com. One guy is rising to the top of the macrumor "market" (if such a thing could be said to exist) on the strength of what can only be illegality in Asia.

Whereas for many years now various rumor sites (like this one!) have carefully garnered their sources at Apple and carefully released information that they are "allowed" to release or can release without getting into any legal hot-water, this guy just blatantly breaks the NDA agreements, ignores the law, and wins at it. It's just wrong to have this guy succeed through nefarious actions when all the other hard-working folks who followed the rules for so many years are left out in the cold.

It's pretty clear that 9to5mac.com has a relative or other source at the manufacturing end of Apple's business in Asia. It's clear that this person in the factory is violating the NDA by taking pictures and passing on information to 9to5mac. I doubt however, that if this person gets caught and fired, his buddy at 9to5mac will bail him or her out.

Here's hoping that the rule of law comes to China and this person is fired or thrown in jail and that as a result 9to5mac goes back to the ooze out of which it rose.

Virgil-TB2, i hope that's a joke, i'm guessing it is from the smiley.
Hoping that someone goes to prison, particularly a chinese Ghulag is a seriously sick point of view. Making a joke about going to a hell hole, for what, a few details and possibly pictures of some future product, is twisted. Grow up.

 

[bananas]

maybe something like this..

 

[Eidorian]

WHAT?! This is an outrage! I see no reason why Apple cannot be using Transparent Aluminium (Aluminium Oxynitride). At a mere $15 per square inch, it'll make out MacBooks beautiful and indestructable. I'm holding out until Apple does this and will settle for nothing less.

ALSO AN OUTRAGE: Apparently Silver is the new White! This is terrible! White was very clean and pristine. No other PC-maker has a white unit. Maybe they're planning on switching up the colors and making white their "pro" color... I will also hold out buying a Mac unit this happens.

Transparent Aluminum casing and white Pro units... No new macs unit then. Who's with me?!

-Clive

(and yes, this is a joke)

I see what you did there.​

 

[jouster]

See the Sony VAIO SZ series.

Which has the extra advantage of actually existing.

 

[CWallace]

I would think that the rumored all-flash notebook will be the true successor the the 12" PowerBook. Such a machine would be very light and have enough storage for the OS, Office/iWorks, and a couple gigs worth of one's favorite music or DVDs to pass the time away between business meetings.

So I expect the screen will be at least 13" and might move up to 14", which is becoming more common on Windows PCs.

As to video, I really hope they throw in the ATI 2600 from the iMac as a minimum. The Intel GMA 3000 can handle Aero under Vista (for those who dual-boot) and the GMA X3000/X3100/X3500 actually is somewhat decent for integrated graphics, but I would prefer something with a bit more "future-proofing". And then they can go well upscale for the MacBook Pro's GPU.

I am not sure what MultiTouch brings to a laptop, especially when the primary display is open. If they make the top display shorter then the bottom and exposes the touchpad while the top is closed, then I could see it for things like advancing slides or doing iTunes controls.

 

[0racle]

Flash 120 GB drive?

If this could be done in a cost effective manner it would have shown up in the iPod Touch.

 

[xenotaku]

son of a.....


just bought a MBP last week.

 

[MrCrowbar]

I wish something would hurt the resale value of a Mac Mini G5! I need one as a wee server and they hold their damn price so high lol ...

Mac Mini G5? I thought this one was coming out next Tuesday
Seriously though, the price of those things on eBay barely drops at all. I think I'll get a core (1) duo one soon as a little entertainment system. Mostly because it's annoying that my programmed EyeTV shows are not recorded because I'm on the go with the Macbook

If anyone in Germany has a Core Duo Mac Mini For sale, please contact me.

 

[Dfndr90]

To me a Blackbook says "I totally didn't look at the Configurations chart on the website." Either that or "I'd rather have a black one than an extra gig of RAM."[/QUOTE]


Or, I have enough money to buy whatever color I want and still upgrade. Which is what I did. I also use a Jack Spade laptop bag to tote it around in. I do not like the white look or the old Macs, never have. When the black came out it awesome.

 

[FatGolfer]

Secret Apple Marketing Site?

Did anyone notice that 9to5mac.com's registrant contact is Apple HQ address?

(whois.net - whois on 9to5mac.com)

 

[rtdunham]

They should coat 'em in teflon, then you could close the lid and make crepes on it....The ads for that write themselves.

Maybe this, from the movie, "Hot Shots", is a better idea:


http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=85575&stc=1&d=1190390105

 

[Adokimus]

no offense to you, but i find this notebook ugly. it's not cleanly designed like an apple product. the lights and buttons and printing along the front? just looks really cheap in comparison to the apple design.

thin is good. but it would take more than putting an apple logo on this one to fix the design flaws.

just my $.02

~kyle

No offense taken, to each their own. Let me clarify that I don't think this looks like an Apple design, I just think that it could easily be adapted to one by making it more minimal, out of aluminum, removing media buttons, using smoother lines... etc, and so on. My point, if you read my earlier related post, is that the PC industry is (and has been) making really tiny/skinny laptops and I would love to see them come to the Apple product line. This particular Sony has all the right parts and just needs the Apple design element. But, I should add that you need to see this in person before you criticize the design. Much like the new chubber Nano, it looks MUCH more impressive in person.

much love,

Ado

 

[TC Schiller]

touchpad is probably getting the multitouch function a la iPhones.

that also means it will recognize handwriting too.

I'd like to see glass touchpads. Wouldn't that be nice and cohesive?