“Allegedly this is a leaked pre-release shot of Apple’s website featuring the new MacBook Touch tablet device,” Touch User Guide reports.
Touch User Guide reports, “Notice the little tab under the video player, could this be the new ‘Cocktail’ feature that everyone is talking about right now?”
Full article, with larger photo, here.
MacDailyNews Note: Real or not, you decide. All we know (beyond the fact that that capital “T” on “Touch” gnaws at us), is that 13 months ago we reported a rumor that Apple’s secret product is ‘MacBook touch’. Said our source — the same one who tipped us to wireless iTunes Store sales direct to iPod and iPhone a week before Apple debuted it — in staccato fashion:
Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech. Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at “low” price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.
Our source subsequently told us that “the SuperDrive will not be part of the finished devices, ‘It was just in some of the prototypes for various reason(s).'”
Maybe our source was one October ahead?
I’ll believe it when I see it (in person)…. oh, but I want to believe so badly….
Damn, if they ever did release this baby, I’d sell a kidney to get one!
(no pun intended, sorry Steve) x
Just one thought: NEVER would Apple designers put both tablets (one with iphone apps and one with Safari) one on top of the other, with one facing squarely front and the other leaning against it
So I pulled up the bigger image… Hmm… what’s up with the Finder menu bar? It’s blank… and the URL is http://www.apple.com, implying that Apple mistakenly put this page live online as their homepage? I doubt that… And the guided tour and TV ad icons seem misplaced. Usually they’re down below the teaser graphic, no? And the dock on those things is fugly… why not just use the glass dock? A “dashboard” dock seems like an odd move…
Why would these people take a picture of their computer screen and not command-shift-3 it?
Why would a tablet need a home button? It makes sense on the iPhone & iPod touch as the only run the one application at a time. But on a tablet that’s running multiple apps at the same time, together with a dock application launcher. That’s why I call this a fake.
@Jamie
I believe Steve got a liver.
So feel free.
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A tablet is not a book
these fakers almost have it… and then no. There’s no reason why the top bar would be ported straight over from OSX–it’s way too small for touch. also, the dock takes up waaay too much room, and a HOME BUTTON?? what the hell for, if there are multiple windows allowed? where will the home button take the user?
nice try, morons.
it looks so fake! Apple will necessarily introduce a new design for a new product and will never copy an existing design. Damn photoshop!!
Raymond, the home button is a useful feature that can be programed to do many things. Why not have a button.
I to you like to see this offered in September for the holiday / end of year sales. The sooner the better. Like the iPhone, add the final features with software upgrades.
I am not sure this is real – Touch is a trademark of HTC, as in HTC Touch™, right? That’s why it’s iPod touch – Apple uses touch with small ‘t’ – just sayin…
I call BS on this. Take a look at the picture. “Macbook Touch”. If the iPod touch (lower case “t”) is labeled as such, why would Apple proceed with inconsistent labeling and capitalize the “t” in “touch” for the Macbook product.
Oh, to be able to edit my post after posting. That is on my wish list.
Fake or not… I’ll be glad to type http://www.apple.com and just see that MacBook Touch any time soon!!! That will be the best thing I could have now that I considering going back to the University!
If you look at the reflection of the screen on the right it doesn’t match what is on the screen it is reflecting.
Safari buttons for closing / resizing / minimizing window are too small to be touched with a finger
One question, how do you transport it?
If the size is 10″, screen just like iPhone, it will be susceptible to cracking. Don’t you think device of this size with glass screen should have some sort of protective flap? I don’t see it on this picture.
I mean, think about it, you put it in your backpack and???
I’m going to have to go with fake on this one.
The image background is too dark.
The Device does not have enough of the signature Apple reflection at the bottom of the image.
The image of the devices in the shot lack that Apple style and finesse (I’d expect one landscape and the other in portrait with the orientation so, that the view gives a good feel for the thinness and what the back is made of).
Overall it just doesn’t impress me as being an Apple product introduction layout.
But, hay I hope I’m wrong, Looks like it might be a very cool hybrid product.
So why is Touch capitialized?
Unconventional.
judging from his safari bookmarks this is from a designer and modeller, i think this might be fake.
photo of the tablet was already leaked a few months ago here:
http://www.derekunderwood.com/general-computer/details-regarding-new-apple-touch-netbook/
what I want to know is will it be another AT&T;only deal? hoping they open it up to verizon at least
QuickTime having the iPhone UI instead of the brand new QuickTime X UI. Why would Apple create something new and then slap on the old?
people say that there are things onscreen which would be too small for touch, but every single day I’m touching extremely tiny areas on my iphone – and occasionally they really are too small, but I manage. The point is Apple dont seem to mind on the iPhone, so why not on a tablet ?
Could you think of a better way to re-introduce Steve Jobs? Bring him out of “one more thing.” Voila, a touch MacBook.
Look at the background
MacBook Touch and
iPhone apps & OS X living in perfect harmony
are not justified.