Tablet Mac Coming in Fall 2008?

[Macinposh]

Just found this on Digg.

Hmm... Fake?

Quick checking with photoshop and :

1.Weird powerbutton. Not the standard apple but a weird Y button?
2."Wrong" reflections on the display from the nano. No halo in the glass.
3.Some inconsistency in the cable in the display end.
4.Some weirdness in the webcam, not centered (could be optical) and too small?
5.Apple logo seems to be superimposed.Check the r+b channels and there might be some not too carefull stamping?

Let alone dumb placing of the speakers (hello!! under the thumbs!!) ,weird slot in the lower right corner and...

Mmmeh...

 

[Tallest Skil]

Hmm... Fake?

Obviously it's fake! I agree, though, the design sucks.

 

[olternaut]

First of all.....its not a fake but a mockup. There is no investigation that needs to be made. The designer just wanted to show what his opinion of what the mac touch/tablet would look like.

And I think its not bad......not perfect but not bad either. Thumbs up.

 

[Tallest Skil]

First of all.....its not a fake but a mockup.

Here's how I define them, I don't know about anyone else...

Mockup: Done in the style of an Apple advertisement or as it would look on the front page of Apple.com.

Fake: The above style put into a real-world setting. In other words, a mockup made to look like it actually exists.

 

[Lesser Evets]

Mockup: Done in the style of an Apple advertisement or as it would look on the front page of Apple.com.

Fake: The above style put into a real-world setting. In other words, a mockup made to look like it actually exists.

That's a good definition. I agree with you.

That product "mock up" as it was called doesn't even look close to an Apple design. It looks like a low end PC design. Most likely Apple would design a very trimmed down tablet that doesn't have speaker grills and lots of space around the edge of the screen. The tablet is obviously going to be a sort of iPod Touch XL, so since touch is the input there won't be much of anything blocking fingers from getting to the screen. A convincing fake would be just a large screen with a mild edge... very boring, but most likely more accurate.

 

[puffnstuff]

If Apple were to make a tablet...

1. Ultra thin "The thinnest tablet ever"
2. No speaker grill
3. No cd drive it will be like the makbook air and use other computer drives or you can attach one
4. Logo and name of tablet on back
5. power button on front bottom center like the button on the touch and iphone

 

[olternaut]

Here's how I define them, I don't know about anyone else...

Mockup: Done in the style of an Apple advertisement or as it would look on the front page of Apple.com.

Fake: The above style put into a real-world setting. In other words, a mockup made to look like it actually exists.

I would think a fake would be something submitted as the real thing on purpose even though the person submitting it knows it to be false.
And yeah, I did say it was nice but not perfect. The real thing ought be to be outstanding in the design department....as is usually the case for Apple's shipping products.

 

[iMacmatician]

one more time:
8"x4.5"
Multitouch (duh)
n wifi
Bluetooth keyboard
Maybe keyboard/cradle combo.
? could this be why 3G dock connector is different? ie so it can plug into a full size keyboard?
Iphone OS
Front facing camera for iChat.
Accelerometers.
And it streams rented movies and acts as a laptop screen for apple TV. Not to mention remote access to apple TV and your desktop.

I'd add iLife mobile, iWork mobile, Preview mobile, a USB port, and a micro-DVI port.

why would you want to buy an iPod touch when there's a Macbook touch....

iPod touch is smaller, cheaper, and lighter. MacBook touch is larger, more expensive, and more powerful. Pretty significant difference.

Just found this on Digg.
...
Impressive fake if not real. Using the ipod's lengths, the screen would go to about 8.9"

Is it just me or do the GUI objects look really small? Do they look too small to reliably touch with a finger? And I have doubts about it being real.

2. No speaker grill

Maybe a mono speaker like the MacBook Air.

 

[Phrasikleia]

Hmm... Fake?

Quick checking with photoshop and :

1.Weird powerbutton. Not the standard apple but a weird Y button?
2."Wrong" reflections on the display from the nano. No halo in the glass.
3.Some inconsistency in the cable in the display end.
4.Some weirdness in the webcam, not centered (could be optical) and too small?
5.Apple logo seems to be superimposed.Check the r+b channels and there might be some not too carefull stamping?

Let alone dumb placing of the speakers (hello!! under the thumbs!!) ,weird slot in the lower right corner and...

Mmmeh...

Good observations. 3 and 4 alone reveal it as a fake.

 

[Oldmufflerman]

Jason O'Grady revives rumors of a tablet Mac in his 'The Apple Core' blog today with claims that the long-rumored Mac Tablet would finally be arriving later this year.

Specifically, he believes that Apple will announce a 12" or 13" tablet "in the fall" of this year. The Mac Tablet will reportedly run full Mac OS X, a slot loading Superdrive, 'iPhone-type' GPS chip and an Intel Core Duo processor.

O'Grady believes September or October as the most likely months for the launch of the device and claims that his source "has been reliable in the past". While this rumor may overlap with earlier rumors of an Apple PDA, they appear to detail different features. The earlier PDA rumors suggested more of a larger iPhone rather than a tablet-ized Mac as O'Grady suggests.

Images from an Apple Patent from 2005
Rumors of a tablet Mac always spark a debate about practicality of the tablet form factor. Regardless, it's clear that Apple has been working on a tablet Mac over the years with numerous patents depicting such a device.

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[doublepost=1492790516][/doublepost]??? "A slot drive for loading superdrive". That's ridiculous! There is absolutely no way they would ever put a dinosaur like that in ANYTHING anymore. You just lost all your credibility in my eyes. Shame on you!

 

[RedTomato]

[doublepost=1492790516][/doublepost]??? "A slot drive for loading superdrive". That's ridiculous! There is absolutely no way they would ever put a dinosaur like that in ANYTHING anymore. You just lost all your credibility in my eyes. Shame on you!

Haven't you heard - there's a new iMac Pro coming out this autumn. It may well have a slot loading drive....

Shame - you waited 9 years to comment on this post then blew it ...

 

[Oldmufflerman]

Haven't you heard - there's a new iMac Pro coming out this autumn. It may well have a slot loading drive....

Shame - you waited 9 years to comment on this post then blew it ...

Yaaaa, right, they may bring back the floppy drive also.

 

[AppleComputer]

throw in a zip drive and im sold, i got alot of old diskettes laying around...lol

 

[Oldmufflerman]

May as well do it up right and add a tape player slot also!