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Alleged video of rumored Apple tablet surfaces (with video)

Friday, December 11, 2009 · 4:44 pm · 67 Comments

French website Nowhereelse.fr has posted a video they’ve headlined, “Is this the first video of the MacTablet aka TabletMac?”

Direct link via YouTube here.

Full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: If you had a rogue Apple tablet, and you wanted to videotape it for all the world to see, would you go shopping for comfy chairs and kitchen cabinets? ‘Tis the start of the silly season, with no Macworld Expo keynote to stop the rumor mill from spinning this year (an Apple Media Event, TBA, will have to do). Go easy on the eggnog, now, ya hear?

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absentminded

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 5:49 pm · Reply

Looks nice fake or not makes me want more
theloniousMac

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 5:50 pm · Reply

Remember, you heard it here first. That is not the Apple tablet.
x

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 5:51 pm · Reply

I’m already in line……..
dan

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 5:51 pm · Reply

i grow
Mulit Touch

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 5:53 pm · Reply

No multi touch…..I call fake!
Tim Flint

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 5:53 pm · Reply

Doesn’t look like a Jonathan Ives design to me. And if it were real, they’d do something more interesting on it than shop for a chair.
dd

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 5:54 pm · Reply

Does look nice. However, the little windows have an X (or what appears to be that) in the upper-right corner, which would be different than usual. Even widgets have them in the upper-left, like regular windows.
TowerTone

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 5:57 pm · Reply

Too glossy…
Macintosher

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:05 pm · Reply

I call realistic if not real. The app shown is blatantly Ikea’s and they design nearly everything on cheap PCs. Thus they would’ve designed the window close button in the wrong place. Also, the touchscreen looks very precise and the speed/graphics typical of Apple.
January 24, 1984

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:05 pm · Reply

Gonna be a fun year, next.
@ Tim Flint

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:09 pm · Reply

“Doesn’t look like a Jonathan Ives design to me. And if it were real, they’d do something more interesting on it than shop for a chair.”

There is only one of him.
jon1

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:09 pm · Reply

This is a video of something real.
I’m not real convinced this is Apple.
krquet

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:13 pm · Reply

@@Tim Flint

Steve Jobs—There is only one of him.
Typo fixed.
Adam

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:14 pm · Reply

Looks good to me (possible real device)…
alex

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:15 pm · Reply

Hmm, more than likely not real, but possibly one of the most realistic fakes yet. If and when an Apple tablet is released, I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t differ too greatly from than this.
surfcity

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:16 pm · Reply

Brings up a lot of questions.

Is someone else coming out with a “tabletMac” wannabe?

If not a TabletMac then it looks like they’ve already developed something that would at least compete with one… “if” or “when” it comes out. Maybe there is no TabletMac, maybe there is. Maybe this is a old prototype that has since been changed… anyone remember how Detroit used to disguise their new car models while driving on their test tracks?

BTW, anyone know of any mobile OS that has a UI and works like that?

Will the questions ever end? Only Apple will tell.
January 24, 1984

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:17 pm · Reply

Just out of curiosity, how would you fake this? I can believe it’s not an Apple device, but how do you create such a believable fake without alien help?
R2

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:20 pm · Reply

I’d never be able to put that thing down.
G4Dualie

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:30 pm · Reply

When he was flicking through that Cover Flow feature at the bottom of the screen it was woefully unApple-like and didn’t even exhibit the rubber band feature; it stopped dead almost immediately.

But, I sure would like a TabletMac with streaming from an AppleTV or Time Capsule.
GRANDxADMIRAL

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:32 pm · Reply

Looks crazy thin/light. I’d fear sitting on it and snapping it in half. Probably tough as nails though.
smaugthewyrm

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:35 pm · Reply

SPRUNG! geek b0ner!

sold.

i’ll be in line with WOZ for that.

and so the apple lead ahead of the pack widens…
jjjj

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:38 pm · Reply

@TowerTone – nah, not glossy ENOUGH.
chucky chan

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:38 pm · Reply

i think is the second, smaller version of the big mada fcker table computer from Microsoft.

P.S.
Google: H.R.1207 , we’ve got to audit the Federal Reserve( private bank) and find out were those trillions went…
MidWest Mac

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:38 pm · Reply

It could be faked, but it would have taken a lot of work. An interface could be designed as a concept and then put together as a video file. The user could then just memorize what their fingers are supposed to do to make it look realistic. A dozen takes and you’ve got something that looks “snappy.”

Whether it’d be an actual Apple product or just a worthy competitor, someone would have gone to a lot of trouble to fake it, though.
ArchtMig

Friday, December 11, 2009 - 6:39 pm · Reply

Apple doesn’t use “Office Furnishings” as a meme for selling their products. A real Apple product would be shown playing videos and scrolling through pictures of young people skiing or wake boarding or listening to music. This thing does look pretty cool, but it’s not “hip” enough to be a real Apple product.

It makes me even more eager for the “real” Apple tablet, when it comes out, IF it comes out. I’m sick and tired of waiting year after year for that day.