Photo of Ultra-Portable Mac, MacBook Revision?
- January 3rd, 2008 - 12.59 am UTC
- Apple Rumour, MacBook, Macworld 2008, Ultra-Portable Mac
- Alex Brooks
Earlier in the day newly registered MacRumors user ‘greenrabbit‘ posted a picture to the ongoing discussion about the heavily rumoured ultra-portable Mac thread.
Is this the ultra-portable Mac, or the MacBook revision?To throw down to personal opinion, I personally avoided writing about this picture mainly due to the fact that so many fakes go around prior to events like Macworld, and although it is fun to ponder over them it is important that we don’t condone them. Fakes are a big spanner in the works sometimes.
At first impressions this mockup looks impressive, it is void of any obvious cloning and adjustment defects. But logic prevails in this case.
The majority of mainstream news sites are posting this picture purporting it to be a potential leak of the rumoured ultra-portable Mac. Whatever it is, it doesn’t look ultra-portable.
If this picture was genuine then I believe this is the MacBook revision that has been spoke of a few times, in particular by MacRumors yesterday. The MacBook revision is said to be aluminium, thinner and with a ’strange’ trackpad.
For those who claim that having a trackpad that size would causing a typing problem, I do agree; but it is not unfeasible.
Comments
Camillo Miller 3rd January 2008, 01.18 am
As I suggest in my article (in italian , link below) the book you see in background is Dan Brown’s Angels And Demons… in Swedish. You may read just a piece of the title ( Anglar Och ) but it’s enough to understand it’s Anglar och Demoner, wich of course means Angels And Demons. I don’t think Apple would ship a prototype of a revolutionary notebook across the oceans for a swedish geek in a chill and guttural languaged land to test it. Well, this guy may be quite a nostalgic immigrant too, who knows? Anyway, nobody noticed the icons in the docks are exactly place in the same position in the two computers. Me, I think this is a well cooked photoshop scam. Intentionally made Jpeg compression artifacts are the nuage that makes this brilliant.
The article with my investigation..
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Ashraj Dhindsa 9th January 2008, 08.04 am
How does that not look ultra portable. it seems very portable to me.