An image was recently posted to MacRumors’ forums by a “macrumors newbie” named “greenrabbit.”
Is this the first pre-Macworld Expo leaked image of Apple’s rumored ultra-thin subportable, complete with a nice wide trackpad loaded with multi-touch goodness? For some, that giant wide single button might raise the red flag of fake; it just doesn’t seem to make Apple-sense design-wise to us. It’s “non-Ivesian,” if you will — unless it has new uses previously unseen (for example, perhaps the left and right sides rock on a central pivot, so the button can have multiple uses. We call dibs on that idea, Apple, but it’s available for purchase). All that naysaying said, now watch them release it just like that on the 15th.
It’s that time of the year. So, real or fake, what do you think?
MacDailyNews Take: Perhaps “greenrabbit” should have named him or herself “whiterabbit,” instead.
If this is fake it’s one of the more plausible ones I’ve seen
If it’s real then let the drooling begin.
There’s a floppy on his desk. This guy really is ahead of the curve.
I believe!
big al, what floppy? that’s business card or something
If thats it, I think its rather boring.
Subnotebook mac, like subprimes ?
look at the width of the touch pad??
I was going to say fake, but with the recent leaks lately, who knows?
Boring I want it in black or gunmetal.
I don’t buy it, simply because there’s nothing in the new model that couldn’t be taken from an existing model and used in photoshop to create this fake photo.
It’s just hard for me to believe that Apple would have been working for so long on something that so closely resembles old products that have been around for years now.
A wider trackpad is hardly a revolutionary feature…
Ergonomically the wide button does make sense. It enables you to easily click no matter where your hand is on the trackpad.
Apple planted this one
Anything located under a notebook would be, of course, subnotebook. In that case, I already have a subnotebook desk!
If this is real, wouldn’t this have to be sitting on someone’s desk at Apple? It would be pretty easy to track down the culprit I would think. I doubt there are very many floating around and they’re going to be keeping a really close watch on those that are.
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
Why in the world do sites fall for this each time. If that was real, there would be 100 clear and pristine photos of it. For heaven’s sake, we even take 20 pictures of the boxes.
The shadow on the “sub” looks wrong.
This image is not real. I don’t believe for a minute that Apple would design a laptop that would require you to rest your palms on the track pad. That makes no sense. Even if it were programmed to ignore palm touches, it still gets dirty from sweaty palms and works less efficiently.
I’m sure Apple will make the next touch pad multi touch, but it doesn’t need to be wide to be effective. The iPhone is a great example of this.
I say fraud. I would hope fraud too, because this doesn’t look like much of a step forward for Apple. They are capable of so much better.
The shadow CAST by the sub looks wrong. To be more clear.
take alot at the vaious shadows.. not just on the sub notebook but the macbookpro they either used lots of different light sources or this photo has been touched badly
I’d rather have a Eee PC.
Look at the keyboard. It’s just like the current MacBook Pro’s, and in fact this looks just like a smaller, thinner MacBook Pro with the wider trackpad/button.
Isn’t Apple moving to the keyboard design used in the MacBook and the new aluminum wired and wireless keyboards?
If Apple is introducing an entirely new design, how likely is it the company would make it look just like the older MacBook Pro, which already looks much like its PowerBook predecessor?
I wide trackpad and button makes sense, but not THAT wide. You need to rest your palms on the area taken up by that wide button. I can understand if the trackpad was that wide, because it can be designed to not recognize palm contact (versus finger tip contact), but not the button. I have to say this is not the real thing.
So the new laptops are going to have a special gesture based track pad interface while the desktops are left behind, or are required to get some type of add on….I don’t buy it.
If Apple is going to greatly enhance/replace the mouse/track pad its going to be across the board with all of their products.
This is fake.
Fake. Apple will be moving to the new macbook style keyboard for all products, including the macbook pros. The new subnotebook will have the same design as the aluminum desktop keyboard Apple currently offers. The 15″ and 17″ macbook pros will also be updated to have the new keyboard as well (along with 17″ LED backlighting).
PALM problem when typeing so – not real — GO BAKE A FAKE!