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As Strongbad would say, "Blurry photographic evidence".

I think its a gremlin myself

I'd like this to be true, but it looks like a cardboard box to me, and the logo on the top looks distorted. Why do insiders always have the crappiest cameras? I'd like to see the "spy shots" be in focus someday.

Tera finally gets her tablet Mac. Think wireless iBook cut in half with a touch screen and iSight camera. Woo hoo!

Or, maybe I'll finally get my Airport Express AV. Then I can plug in my Mac to my TV via wireless.

Or, maybe it's just a new Intel-based Mac mini...

Or, maybe it's the new Media Mac; wireless, Intel audio/video in/out

Or, maybe it's the new VOIP iPhone

Or, maybe it's the new iTunes iPhone (1000 songs)

Or, maybe it's a new audio video input/output device

Or...

Whew. I'm dizzy.

Tera Patricks
TeraTalks

Looks just like the Apple Developer Conference prize. Hmm...

bla, bla, bla . . . Applejuice !

Is it a UFO?

these damn pics get worse all the time, when are you n00bs gonna learn to actually try to make some good fake shots, and this is for sure a rendered image

Applejacks!

Ask the guy what type of camera he used.

That is an original iPod box from 2001.

Looks like Bigfoot. Or a cardboard box. Or maybe a UFO designed by the Borg.

The cube looks rendered to me...

As a photographer and Photoshop retoucher, I have to questioon the authenticity of this photo. As far as the point of only having 30 seconds to photograph it, I believe that. It must have been a quick shot because the perspecive is off and its out of focus. But, I believe that was the intention, to trick us into believing it was real. The Apple logo looks fake (I don't see the stem) and the shadows on the front don't portray real lighting, because the light source is coming from the left, yet the object is brighter in the front. The message along with the photo- "there are a bunch of ports (and maybe a button or two)" makes me sceptical. Anyone who knows of this site or reads this site, would know what kind of ports are on the back. The overall size is too big, why make something this big, when you already have a Mac mini? But, if I'm wrong, and this is for real.... expect this to be a new Mac Mini on Steroids with an Intel VIIV chip, DVR capabilities, and 3 internal hard drives for massive recording and downloading storage. We'll see.

Or maybe it could actually be an Apple Design Award

http://developer.apple.com/ada/

If the picture was taken using a digital camera, or a camera phone; this picture is too perfect.

There's no barrel distortions whatsoever. It looks like that it is rendered.

So far I think that it is a fake.

If the pic included the ports on the back, I'd believe it ... but anyone could make a box like that and take a blurry photo.

Forget the box, look at the light and shadows on the table. As pointed out by earlier posters, it's definitely rendered.

it's rendered.

badly too. Just look at the cheap "marble" texture under it and the extremely unrealistic shadows.

Hhm, a logo that can't be backlighted like in a Powerbook and still made of the same material? Not an Ive-idea...

I am quite certain that this is indeed an Apple Design Award.

Curious on what is inside? Look on the site of Mekentosj!

If you look at the right edge of the box it doesn't go straight to the table it actually slants inward which would not make it a cube. It would be a straight line up and down.

It's not an Apple Design Award, the Apple Design Award doesn't use the same material in the blurry shot (the grill-metal look from the G5 tower) and the Apple logo is bigger on the ADA.

See?
http://static.flickr.com/2/1462418_8567064e51.jpg

funny , he seems to have changed the laws of physics with his camera , the table edges don't align with a certain little thing called perspective...

ie:

that's a chop !

Oh dear. MDN has fallen for the " I was only able to snap one quick shot" line. Its a fake you idiots! Nobody does a quick shot with perfect lighting and fails to include the side with the buttons, etc. etc.

It's a cardboard box containing the name of the person who has just downloaded the billionth iTune.

The official counter may say otherwise, but surely nobody believed that it was showing an accurate figure at the correct time ?

Someone got their one minute of fame. Not genuine.

Okay----so somebody sends MDN a photo.
Why does MDN think they have the right to plaster their "MacDailyNews.com" over the front of it if the photo was taken and owned by someone else?

When you get a photo of an Apple computer do you put in 72 point type "MacDailyNews.com" on it?

Did MDN take the photo? Does MDN own the photo? Then how can you claim you own the photo by putting your name on it?

ANSWER: MDN took the photo and is making up its own rumors news...

Come on! It's a 3d render! ROTFL!

Is it the first Apple virus, in its original packaging?

Such a badly made fake, I could probably do a better one in VRML

The lines aren't straight, the lighting, reflections and shadows don't make any sense and if you look closely enough at the edges along the top you can see little dark spots, as if the guy didn't have a steady enough hand when he was adding on the "holes like on the powermac" effect in photoshop.

Take a very close look at the edges on the top and you'll see proof that this was photoshopped, or proof of my theory that apple's design rooms exist in a space that defies the laws of physics. What gives it away as a chop, not just movement of the camera during a long exposure, is that the the effect isn't incorrect along a line. The edges of the effect are bumpy and are present on both the right and left edge of the top panel. I can't picture any way for that to happen on a real camera. it must be the fault of an image editor.

its definately a render. sorry.

Looks like BS in a box.......anyway, looks also like rendered in Cinema 4D which is NO BS in a box..

MacB

It's the prize for crappiest faked spy shot. This "cube" is about as real as Maria "Skeletor" Shriver's face and as believable as Bob Packwood saying "I'm apologizing for the conduct that it was alleged that I did." Someone call the render farm and tell them one of their ugly ducklings escaped.

I'm an MDN partisan, but this photo is asking for a beating with the truth stick.

No mystery, it is a box.

dude.. I want a massive CUBE on my flat screen tv...

sweeeet

*sarc

I just had multiple orgasms for the first time, and my pants are a creamy mess right now.

It is DEFINITELY real!

(If I'm the only one saying it is, I get to blow rasberries on Tuesday when it's revealed!)

so what was it 'it cant be the Apple design award because the logo is bigger and the surface texture different'. I presume you think it beyond the wit of the originator to use the award as the base and manipulate it thereafter in photoshop to make it just a little bit less obvious.

why don't all these idiots just wait a week to find out what reallly happens.

http://www.endlesselevation.com

Raspberries don't have to be the only thing you blow on Tuesday

Even if it wasn't a fake and not a cardboard box, it wouldn't work to use such small holes for airflow. Besides, Apple would hide the holes in the bottom and leave a gap in the top, like in the Cube if this were for thermal ventallation. There would also be foot pads if not legs. Holes in the side mean something else.

This is a speaker. It is also a fake. This does not have the look of an Apple product at all.

My vote is it's a fake.

looks rendered, if he got a quick shot I doubt the perspective would be as it is, the table looks like a default texture in a 3D app, and the light source looks to be two feet away, no background either, and it seems as if it's distorted with filters, not the usual grain/no focus from a bad shot with a camera phone.

but I could be wrong.

Fake. Looks like a box that something came in. iSight?

No IR receiver lens. If this truly was a "Media Cube", it would have IR for sure, and it wouldn't be on the back. Also, why is the photographer making excuses about the top? Slight moire patter too... could be a scan? Not buying this one.

Fake - without a doubt. Perspective is terrible, it looks about 8 feet high...

Also - it's VERY ugly. Apple would never make something like this.

Oh my god - isn't it obvious that the cube is completely the wrong perspective - this is like a Picasso painting, it's so out of whack. It can't be rendered, because it would be sooooo easy to render the perspective of a cube correctly. If it's a Photoshop job, it's got me, because I've been using PS for 12 years and it really doesn't look like one. The lighting is actually correct - keep in mind that the light on the front is the reflection from what looks to be a boardroom table. There is another light, possibly a halogen shining down from the ceiling. Even the colour of the reflections are correct. It's the perspective that gets me (and the motion blur on the logo) - it doesn't look like a perfect cube, so therefore, if it is real, it could be a cube with a 'wedge' cut from the front.

Guess we'll see next week!

I think it's a Yeti or Sasquatch or maybe a government conspiricy to cover up the truth! "Roswell! Roswell!"

Also - look at the Apple logo!

The base of the logo is facing towards us which means that the face nearest facing the camera has to be the front.

Why would Apple develop a product that has no slots etc on the front?

Surely if this is a 'media server' or whatever then there would at least be some sort of slot for dvds at the front and maybe some sort of eject button too.

Interesting...