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Digital Skunk
macrumors G3
Not to mention the cutting out of the original bezel and and the pasting of the iMac screen.
Also, I hope that mockup artists know that they black outline around the iMac's screen was there for a reason. Apple may use it in future notebook models but it isn't entirely necessary. Then again they do this every time Apple adds a new design element. I can remember the horrible drawings of the iMac and iPhone combinations.
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
I can't really see it on a laptop when LCD display borders are shrinking all the time.
It's a nice contrast on the iMac. I'm still not very fond of the current iMac's looks though. It gets hotter then older ones too. 🙄
The Keyboard must be there.
Definitely the keyboard must be there. Given the new look of the new Apple Keyboards, it is for sure the new laptop will have it with no change.
The screen will NOT be touchable.
The trackpad and the click button will both disappear and instead the whole area below the keyboard will be the touch sensitive trackpad. Apple is in the touch era and the will keep using it, so I think the new touch sensitive area will recognize a lot of gestures to Click, right click, pan, rotate, rezise, scroll vertically and horizontally, copy, cut, paste, etc.
The laptop will be as high as the most bigger port on it, including the screen. It can be very slim and only be "fat" on the back where all the ports are.
The DVD drive will be there too.
The hard drive will not be flash, but it will have flash to help shorten boot times.
A new tablet will be the one more thing. It will be a bigger iphone without the phone, with 2 usb ports, a memory stick port, no cd drive, flash based 16 or 32gb, only 1 button, wifi and bluetooth, iphone-like OS and leopard.
That's my guess.
Definitely the keyboard must be there. Given the new look of the new Apple Keyboards, it is for sure the new laptop will have it with no change.
The screen will NOT be touchable.
The trackpad and the click button will both disappear and instead the whole area below the keyboard will be the touch sensitive trackpad. Apple is in the touch era and the will keep using it, so I think the new touch sensitive area will recognize a lot of gestures to Click, right click, pan, rotate, rezise, scroll vertically and horizontally, copy, cut, paste, etc.
The laptop will be as high as the most bigger port on it, including the screen. It can be very slim and only be "fat" on the back where all the ports are.
The DVD drive will be there too.
The hard drive will not be flash, but it will have flash to help shorten boot times.
A new tablet will be the one more thing. It will be a bigger iphone without the phone, with 2 usb ports, a memory stick port, no cd drive, flash based 16 or 32gb, only 1 button, wifi and bluetooth, iphone-like OS and leopard.
That's my guess.
SheriffParker
macrumors 6502a
Mockup artists bringing us the worst of Apple imaginary design of 2008. I think this one is the winner of lazy @$$ design by far. It's the epitome of "I have five minutes to burn, why not f*** up some pixels..."
I just love the white keys with the grey base and the black bezel. 😛
takepillsdie
macrumors newbie
anyone heard of touch screens or touch pads being touch sensitive? (...responding to pressure, like a midi-keyboard for music making.) That would be ace!
That first picture is nice. So glad to see optical drives as historical. Hopefully battery life and ruggedness will be very important on this one since it will be carried around more than a normal laptop. Kind of wish bluetooth was faster so that we wouldn't have to have (usb, firewire, etc.) plugs at all. This would make it so we could have much more plugged in at a time (phone, ipod, keyboard, external hard-drive,...). Another thing is I've wrecked three hard drives on a macbook. Maybe from not letting it go to sleep before putting it in my bag when I'm out and about? So hope to see a flash drive. Space isn't so much an issue for me.
I've been waiting for a fully functional ultraportable from mac for along time. I'm excited to see what pans out on the 15th, but don't expect too much.
That first picture is nice. So glad to see optical drives as historical. Hopefully battery life and ruggedness will be very important on this one since it will be carried around more than a normal laptop. Kind of wish bluetooth was faster so that we wouldn't have to have (usb, firewire, etc.) plugs at all. This would make it so we could have much more plugged in at a time (phone, ipod, keyboard, external hard-drive,...). Another thing is I've wrecked three hard drives on a macbook. Maybe from not letting it go to sleep before putting it in my bag when I'm out and about? So hope to see a flash drive. Space isn't so much an issue for me.
I've been waiting for a fully functional ultraportable from mac for along time. I'm excited to see what pans out on the 15th, but don't expect too much.
hobbbz
macrumors 6502a
Just popped into my head, I know jobs hates stylii but why couldn't there be one a la the new wacom cintiq 12" with 512 levels of sensitivity that could be a digital artists dream. If there was a way to use fingers like on the iPhone for less sensitive tasks it would be awesome as well.
Apple will go dual-display a-la Nintendo DS for laptop or tablet.
I was thinking about this today - I predict Apple will replace keyboards and trackpads and replace the entire flat interface surface with an OLED touch-screen display that will have a virtual keyboard and will double as a gesture & Touch pad.
So one screen will be a new LED-backlit LCD display as the main, bright interface, and the keyboard will be entirely backlit, customizeable, and a secondary screen.
Either that, or both screens will be OLED and the device can be folded flat to use both screens, doubling the screen size for things like movies.
I was thinking about this today - I predict Apple will replace keyboards and trackpads and replace the entire flat interface surface with an OLED touch-screen display that will have a virtual keyboard and will double as a gesture & Touch pad.
So one screen will be a new LED-backlit LCD display as the main, bright interface, and the keyboard will be entirely backlit, customizeable, and a secondary screen.
Either that, or both screens will be OLED and the device can be folded flat to use both screens, doubling the screen size for things like movies.
ThinkGeek
macrumors member
Call me old fashioned, but for me only keyboards with tactile feedback are to some degree usable keyboards (varying resulting in different keyboards where I just pick by personal preference)kontheur said:
I can see those "touchpads" having verious applications in the media area though. Be it as Wacom replacements, as equaliser, etc. But not as a keyboard replacement.
Besides, as great as OLEDs are, considering that Sony is shipping the XEL-1 (an 11" (!) OLED TV) for $2500 it might come in a tad expensive, don't you think?
Pukey
macrumors 6502
Aha! I was thinking along the same lines as gfair and kontheur (posts 190 and 191).
First, this is not meant to look pretty, it's just a quick mockup to help explain my idea. As in other's previous posts I agree in having the base as a multi-touch surface that is also the exact same size as the screen. I'm not saying an additional screen, but a surface that has multiple uses and the surface appearance changes depending on what you're doing. I've only shown keyboard mode in my mockup, but it could also show other things that you may not want cluttering up your screen such as a piano keyboard or turntables for example. It could also become completely blank in order to be a multi-touchpad for cursor operation or for drawing, with exact reference to the screen (since they're the same size). The surface could also include the "keystroke tactility arrangement" patent that skwoytek reminded us of in post 89 so you would know where the keys are without having to look down. Also it could just be black and white to keep things as simple as possible. One or both screens could be OLED.
One of the reasons I would really like to see something like this is for the drawing aspect. I get a bit leery when people say down with the stylus. To a point I can understand as it could maybe take away from the minimalism that is Apple design. But a lot of people attach a mouse to their notebooks/laptops don't they? A stylus is more minimalist than a mouse IMO. On top of that, aren't a lot of Mac users designers and artists? That's the impression I've always had, but maybe things have changed. Usually artists and at least some designers draw a lot. Fingers don't cut it when you want to draw, you need something with a fine tip if you want to do anything besides fingerpainting in your art programs. Besides, somebody needs to give Wacom a run for their money, and I think Apple could do it. I also think Apple could design a nice minimalist stylus and find a way to carry it with the computer far better than PC designs have done.
(Also check out LG's concept "e-book" from 2006 http://www.red-dot.sg/concept/porfolio/06/12pr/ebook.htm. There's another image of this online showing both screens going all the way to the edge since apparently you can do that with OLED.)
I know this was long, thanks for reading.
First, this is not meant to look pretty, it's just a quick mockup to help explain my idea. As in other's previous posts I agree in having the base as a multi-touch surface that is also the exact same size as the screen. I'm not saying an additional screen, but a surface that has multiple uses and the surface appearance changes depending on what you're doing. I've only shown keyboard mode in my mockup, but it could also show other things that you may not want cluttering up your screen such as a piano keyboard or turntables for example. It could also become completely blank in order to be a multi-touchpad for cursor operation or for drawing, with exact reference to the screen (since they're the same size). The surface could also include the "keystroke tactility arrangement" patent that skwoytek reminded us of in post 89 so you would know where the keys are without having to look down. Also it could just be black and white to keep things as simple as possible. One or both screens could be OLED.
One of the reasons I would really like to see something like this is for the drawing aspect. I get a bit leery when people say down with the stylus. To a point I can understand as it could maybe take away from the minimalism that is Apple design. But a lot of people attach a mouse to their notebooks/laptops don't they? A stylus is more minimalist than a mouse IMO. On top of that, aren't a lot of Mac users designers and artists? That's the impression I've always had, but maybe things have changed. Usually artists and at least some designers draw a lot. Fingers don't cut it when you want to draw, you need something with a fine tip if you want to do anything besides fingerpainting in your art programs. Besides, somebody needs to give Wacom a run for their money, and I think Apple could do it. I also think Apple could design a nice minimalist stylus and find a way to carry it with the computer far better than PC designs have done.
(Also check out LG's concept "e-book" from 2006 http://www.red-dot.sg/concept/porfolio/06/12pr/ebook.htm. There's another image of this online showing both screens going all the way to the edge since apparently you can do that with OLED.)
I know this was long, thanks for reading.
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I've had exactly the same idea as you, a couple of weeks ago:
I know, no tactile feedback, but the guys from Fingerworks are working on it... (braille ?) 😛
That would be an absolute nightmare. I can't think of anything worse than having to type out an essay on that.
gifford
macrumors 6502
For those against the idea of 'touch screen' keyboards who would miss the tactile nature of the oldskool.
An apple patent a while back attempted to deal with the problem somehow, there was a news article on macrumors or appleinsider about 6 months ago about it. Yet with all the surrounding hype of new data entry methods I have surprisingly not seen it mentioned since.
An apple patent a while back attempted to deal with the problem somehow, there was a news article on macrumors or appleinsider about 6 months ago about it. Yet with all the surrounding hype of new data entry methods I have surprisingly not seen it mentioned since.
MrCrowbar
macrumors 68020
I've had exactly the same idea as you, a couple of weeks ago:
I know, no tactile feedback, but the guys from Fingerworks are working on it... (braille ?) 😛
That thing looks awesome- Gongrats. I would love that thing.
Palad1
macrumors 6502a
ultra thin ports
I'm just curious about ultra thin ports that Apple has patent it few months ago. i believe that patent is for this ultra portable Macbook Pro too. Just wonder how apple Dev team work with that patent.
I'm just curious about ultra thin ports that Apple has patent it few months ago. i believe that patent is for this ultra portable Macbook Pro too. Just wonder how apple Dev team work with that patent.
I WAS the one
macrumors 6502a
Remember my words. A Multitouch Sub Notebook will not and I mean NOT be announce at MacWorld Expo. Don't let it grow. it will not come. not yet. too early to bring a device that stops the iPhone having more sales. A Small Mac Book yes. thats all. sorry