Yesterday an image claiming to be the new MacBook Pro began to circulate, many sites including World of Apple neglected to post the image feeling that the image was clearly fake.

Today it has been confirmed by Jason O’Grady that the image is in fact fake but he also offers some details on the future MacBook Pro.

On his blog O’Grady states that he’s heard that the new MacBook Pro will retain its more traditional square edged look instead of adopting the tapered edges of the MacBook Air. In addition O’Grady believes that the new MacBook Pro will be much thinner than the current incarnation, “as much as a half-inch narrower” he writes. That space saving is said to come from around the screen.

The blogger goes onto write that the MacBook Pro will adopt the black “flat top” keys of the MacBook Air and could also include a trackpad smaller than the current MacBook Pro but also with the addition of a split two-button trackpad button.

Finally O’Grady notes that the MacBook Pro will incorporate “full multi-touch support”, but offers no details on exactly what he means.

In addition AppleInsider adds that Apple will remove the FireWire 400 port in favour of a backwards compatible FireWire 800 port on the new MacBook Pro. Also in what will most likely be a controversial decision the 28-pin DVI-I port used for connecting external displays has also reportedly been replaced with a mini-DVI port like the one found on the current MacBook and iMac.

It has been suggested in the past that the new MacBook Pro and MacBook will be released on October 14th.