Stock imagery - PowerBook

[eyoungren]

This is kind of messed up, I think they could have chosen a better stock image. Honestly, I don't know what the intent in the set up for this image was.

Article isn't important (but it's about online teaching), but here's the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/opinion/coronavirus-online-learning.html

And the image I am complaining about…



Kid in front of a Powerbook that has missing keys! And a coffee cup! A coffee cup?!!! If that's not coffee that's in it, ok, but kids shouldn't be drinking coffee. And, look, it's spilled!

This is just entirely the wrong image for the content of this article.

PS. OK, maybe it's an MBP - but still!

 

[Amethyst1]

This is just entirely the wrong image for the content of this article.

Agreed - and several of the remaining keys are really worn out. One could argue that a laptop heavily used by a small child is likely to have some... "signs of use" on it though

 

[AshleyPomeroy]

A Google image search reveals that it's from iStockPhoto:

Jahre niedliches Kind lernen Mathematik aus dem Computer.

Jahre niedliches Kind lernen Mathematik aus dem Computer.

www.istockphoto.com

The same machine, with the broken keys, also appears in this image, which reveals that it's a MacBook Pro:

Jahre niedliches Kind lernen Mathematik aus dem Computer....

Jahre niedliches Kind lernen Mathematik aus dem Computer. Homeschooling

www.istockphoto.com

The giveaway is the little dot next to the clasp, which was for the infrared sensor used by the Apple Remote, which was introduced with the iMac G5 but wasn't ported to the laptops until the Intel era. In contrast this is a PowerBook from a 2006 episode of Dr Who, the one where the Daleks fight the Cybermen:

The iStockPhoto chap's entire output seems to consist of admittedly well-shot images of himself and his kids larking about. I wonder why he used such an obviously broken MacBook? His images obviously had some work put into them - matting in the image of the blackboard can't have been trivial - and it's not as if broken-but-physically-intact used MacBooks of that era are expensive.

 

[Amethyst1]

The giveaway is the

... iSight camera above the LCD.

 

[AshleyPomeroy]

... iSight camera above the LCD.

Oh yeah! I must have mentally blanked it out. Of course the iSight camera for the PowerBooks was visually a lot more subtle and harder to see:

 

[Slix]

What a sad MacBook Pro in those photos... Surely they couldn't have found a better laptop as a prop?

I seem to still see early MacBook Pros/PowerBooks in stock image type products all over the place. Here's an example of an email from Pokemon I got in February (I think they finally changed the image after that!). Not a "real" PowerBook, but it's hard to say it wasn't inspired by its design. The funny thing to me about this whole idea though, is that the TCG Online debuted in 2011... Way after this design was dropped from current laptops.

 

[z970]

@Slix You're more current with this stuff than I am; did they drop Ultra Sun / Moon from their occasional promotions and online gifts yet, to your knowledge? I do know that they abandoned X and Y somewhere around 2017 to 2018, but I'm not sure about the last 3DS releases, what with Sword / Shield and Let's Go being out on the Switch for some time now already.

 

[Slix]

@Slix You're more current with this stuff than I am; did they drop Ultra Sun / Moon from their occasional promotions and online gifts yet, to your knowledge? I do know that they abandoned X and Y somewhere around 2017 to 2018, but I'm not sure about the last 3DS releases, what with Sword / Shield and Let's Go being out on the Switch for some time now already.

Do you mean the online Mystery Gifts for items/Pokémon downloads? Yeah, they haven't had any for Sun/Moon in a bit now. Primarily now just Sword/Shield too.

 

[z970]

@Slix That's a shame...