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Thin MacBook Laptop Concept Images
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no idea how old that fan based idea is but it's gotta be at least 2 years. Here's a larger version of the image
not particularly apple design
Well Apple two years ago was into white plastic, so it actually does look "Appleish".
Why does everyone insist on putting that ugly ass iMac screen border on these mockups. Apple would never do that.
Looks more like Apple design than the ****** mockups with a black screen border, aluminum case, white keyboard, and super-wide useless trackpad.
Looks more like Apple design than the ****** mockups with a black screen border, aluminum case, white keyboard, and super-wide useless trackpad.
so, are you saying it would be impossible, or even highly in-probable, that apple would put an optical drive on the (OMG) LEFT SIDE!?!?
who cares what side you slide a disk into the machine. if you put the mac in one side of the dock, most likely you'll put the dvd/cd/bd in the other side....
They might if they want to tie it to the iMac and the iPhone/iPod Touch, which also have Al edges.
However, as I and others have noted, by necessity the laptop display edge has to be totally black (with hopefully a thin Al border). This works for the iPhone/iPod touch because the display is all there is. But on a laptop, then you have the lower part. If you make it all Al, it doesn't look aesthetic.
Someone did a nice "piano black" laptop image where the whole thing was black. Perhaps instead of making the bottom part Al, also make it black with an Al edge and sides and bottom with an Al edge and sides and back for the LCD. That way, looking at it closed, it is all Al. And when open, the inside is all black with Al edging.
I agree - surely the strip under the keyboard there will be a solid piece of metal (or plastic) which will act as the track pad. You'll be able to use your finger anywhere to move the cursor and tap anywhere to click, two finger to scroll etc. The indented trackpad will be no more.. TRACK ANYWHERE!
Much cleaner design and it will ignore your palms and only react to finger touches.
did anyone else notice that the top picture (on the table with the red cloth) says" Macbook nano"?
I tried to search this thread for Nano, but i couldn't find it so i wonder if that could be the name. Would make sense given the Nano ipod....
I tried to search this thread for Nano, but i couldn't find it so i wonder if that could be the name. Would make sense given the Nano ipod....
They are all crap. Even the the ones that were just posted on this page that look like a fat iPhone that needs to be on a diet. The only one that makes sense so far is the first one that has that weird MacBook keyboard and the supper large trackpad.
Come on January 15th... I don't want to dream about my 17" Super MacBook Pro with real professional hardware and features anymore.
Come on January 15th... I don't want to dream about my 17" Super MacBook Pro with real professional hardware and features anymore.
Didn't know that - enabled it now, thanks for the tip. I still think we could do with a second button though!
I agree 100%. And I must say that, although I do not need a ultra slim sub-notebook, that mockup is really nice and "Appleish". I think I would consider buying it...
the top pic of the new macbook seems very unlikely... would they really ship a product with no ports... ie its missing USB, Video out, etc... i would think those are necessary things for a laptop; however, the MBPs (s=slim) seems more likely...
if the screen doesn't detach from keyboard and the computer maintains its traditional laptop shape, then there will be no news. Laptops the way they are now, are a total piece of s***
B - O - R - I - N - G
I can tell those phonic lessons are finally paying off.
Not sure there is much in the department to innovate on a laptop design. Same with a desktop. The least part of the entire notebook or desktop has to have a screen, the rest of the computer usually is plastered as flat as possible to it. Unless you have a better concept of viewing data, and I am not talking about Sc-Fi.
Bedrooms are the new elevators ............
if it's thin will it make Safari Snappyer????
You mean what is retro (old) is new again, get out of here. I say White Plastic and the JellyBean iMac will make a re-introduction in 4-6 years timeframe.
Black was used on the Pismo PowerBook G3, so anything is possible.
Hopefully its a better metal than Al as a thickness or shall I say thinness would not hold to daily abuse since the Al trends to bend and warp (as noted on the Al Books).
Plus that Black border around the screen resembles PC notebooks.
Its a mock up only and isn't based upon insider knowledge ( as far as everyone knows ) so the name "Nano" is made up for the Macbook. It could have said "Mini" and it would have the same relevance to reality: nothing.
With Macworld approaching, many concept designs are circulating to demonstrate how Apple might design the upcoming "thin" notebook. Our multitouch article generated a long discussion with a number of unofficial mockups posted. The most attractive, perhaps, is this image posted by kontheur:
My apologies if this was already mentioned (didn't have time to read the whole thread) but can you imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth if Apple produced a clickable button that long that wasn't split so it had both a left and right button?
I was looking at the Popular Mechanics movie, the one with the detachable keyboard and all, and just figured that something like that isn't technically possible...at all. Not at this day, anyway.
On most (dare I say every?) laptops, a large portion of the computer components (memory, processor, hard disk, you name it) are seated beneath the keyboard. Now, if the keyboard was detachable, what then? Transmit processor calculations and hard drive access via Bluetooth? Not remotely possible with todays end-user technology.
The concept movie leaves a small amount of space (the plate that's used as a stand which houses the ports), but I do think that it's a bit too optimistic to fit an Apple-quality computer in there.
On most (dare I say every?) laptops, a large portion of the computer components (memory, processor, hard disk, you name it) are seated beneath the keyboard. Now, if the keyboard was detachable, what then? Transmit processor calculations and hard drive access via Bluetooth? Not remotely possible with todays end-user technology.
The concept movie leaves a small amount of space (the plate that's used as a stand which houses the ports), but I do think that it's a bit too optimistic to fit an Apple-quality computer in there.
Though I'm not fond of the design, surely the idea is that the "memory, processor, hard disk, you name it" would sit in the 'base' rather than under the keyboard. With information transmitted via bluetooth from the keyboard.
Never heard George Bush's quote before on the "internets" before? And didn't you notice the smiley at the end of my post? Sheesh, some people have no sense of humour.
Anyway, all that is way off-topic. In one more week we will see what metals
use to create their new ultraportable. I can't wait.
