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Two-Tone MacBooks and a Questionable MacBook Video
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I loved those original iMacs and iBooks. They are the reason I switched to Apple nearly 10 years ago.
I still don't understand what the point is for making mockups and trying to tell people that they're the real deal. What's the gain? You may like to do a mockup for fun and posting it as what it is: a mockup, but trying to fool people...? What for? I'm confused.
If I was cynical I'd suggest that producing a mockup which generates buzz and therefore traffic to a site would increase the number of hits on a page and as a result increase the ad-revenue for that site.
If I was cynical...
Some people get jollies out of screwing with consumers of rumors. As is evident, the mockups get big reactions here. Not from me though. I've never been one to take any stock in mockups or possible leaked photos. Simply not my thing. Some people get down right aroused by mockups.
Well Intel is releasing a $348 quad-core 2.0 GHz CPU in Q1 2009, so it's not completely impossible. But I'd say it's most likely 45 W, so it's a no go.
Yeah, that seems about right, although I'd say black plastic.Perhaps it will be two toned but not black like everyone is thinking?
Maybe apple is looking to the past for inspiration? Aluminum middle and border around the screen with a white plastic lid and bottom?
But I liked those Macs!Are you too young to remember the toxic plastic phase of Apple Design?
…well back then I did.
(I still do)
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I like it in two tone colors, LOL.
i hope apple makes a 12" MB or something like that. then we could try to mod it into one of the ibook cases. that would be fantastic.
Are you too young to remember the toxic plastic phase of Apple Design?
I remember when those macs debuted. I thought they were the most beautiful computers I had ever seen. I searched them in my AOL 4.0 browser, looking for an inexpensive one, not that I was old enough to realize that I could never afford one. I see them now and think that I would never buy something as gaudy as that. It just shows how Apple's take on the aestheic evolution of computers influences our own. The ThinkPad hasn't truly ever had a redesign, and now because of Apple's beautiful computers, it looks like a leper. We recognize that so much more can be done with the aesthetics of compters. Apple is the pinnacle of computer fashion.
If this were real, then the thinness of the new MacBook would take away the exclusivity of the MacBook Air.
Based on the that observation alone, I say that it's not true.
Based on the that observation alone, I say that it's not true.
The two things I'm mostly interested in knowing right now is:
1) will Blu-ray be an option (or meven better, included in the MBP)?
2) will the models have the ugly fat bezel like shown in the video?
Fortunately, we should know by late next week.
1) will Blu-ray be an option (or meven better, included in the MBP)?
2) will the models have the ugly fat bezel like shown in the video?
Fortunately, we should know by late next week.
I've never really appreciated the differential between the MB and the MBP. If Apple had both 13" and 15" MBs (I am assuming a 17" MB doesn't work in plastic) and also had 13", 15", and 17" MBPs, then maybe the branding difference would make sense to me - plastic vs. aluminum and different internal specs. But the way Apple currently has the MBs/MBPs configured, it's primarily the size that matters. The MB is merely a 13" MBP (with a plastic case and weaker specs). Me - I want a 13" aluminum, spec'd-out MBP, but I've got nowhere to go . . . until Tuesday, I hope!
Oh yuck... is that what they referred to a the clamshell??? It looks like a kid's toy, rather than a computer.
*Edit - Goood Grief, I just googled ibook clamshell, what an ugly looking toy. this does not even look like a real computer, more like something a 5 year old would play with. These had to be while Steve Jobs was gone from apple..
Ugh! These are awful! I don't know what their interal specs might have been but they certainly don't shout "I'm a business computing system!"
Well, let me qualify my disgust. I think these designs are/were awful for a company (Apple) wanting to continue its progress into the mainstream business market. On the other hand, colorful descendents of these models would still have a place with individual consumers and design, video, and art focused businesses. Frankly, I'd love to walk into an Apple store that actually had a table full of colorful Mac notebooks on it - right in front of the 13", 15", and 17" aluminum MacBooks and the 12" MacBook Airs.
Duh. The iBooks were targeted to consumers not lame ass business.Ugh! These are awful! I don't know what their interal specs might have been but they certainly don't shout "I'm a business computing system!"
By the way, that photo doesn't do justice for that iBook. Those things rocked!
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Agreed. No tablet yet. First MacBooks/MacBook Pros (on Tuesday), then Apple TV/Mini (in November), then maybe a tablet next year.
I agree. Although I haven't done any measurements, my very first impression was that the bezel in the video was so wide it seemed like a step backwards. I saw one person post a snapshot of the video bezel and a picture of the MacBook Air bezel, proposing that they were different. Has anyone seen any measurements?
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am I the only one that sees that it's just a macbook air in the video?!
am I the only one that sees that it's just a macbook air in the video?!
And they thought they can fool people. They certainly cannot. What a clever try though.
I would hardly call it cleverpiss poor is more accurate. The video was a big waste of bandwidth.