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.
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As an aside, ports are indeed an issue in Apple’s subnotebook. After all, a FW400 port (not to mention 800) has a certain width, particularly if it is to be powered. I wonder if Apple might use a whole new connector – like the 30-pin dock connector, for example. It has been made to run USB and Firewire signals in the past, so theoretically you could hook it to a mouse cable or peripheral adapter hub. But when not using those peripherals, the stand-alone subnotebook only has to be wide enough for processor(s), FLASH module(s), battery, motherboard and keypad (chiclet-style), and the screen (OLED vs. LED). The optical drive would be a bolt-on attachment (and probably should include an additional battery supply, as well), but in the age of digital media, iTunes, etc., is probably not really necessary. Most people with a subnotebook will have a ‘real’ computer to upgrade and sync it with, easily done by Bonjour, ‘back-to-my’Mac’, etc.
Fake.
If it was real – Apple would have already pulled this picture.
Reclaimer said
“Still thinks it needs an optical drive.”
It’s 2008. It doesn’t.
Hopefully it comes with an SSD instead of an HDD too.
gav said
“PALM problem when typeing so – not real — GO BAKE A FAKE!”
Main reason why I think it’s a fake too.
Still, I like the size of this fake. I would say between 10 to 13 inches.
iDon’t said
“I’d rather have a Eee PC.”
The Asus Eee Pc only has a couple of gigabytes of storage, a celeron based processor, and is running some crappy customized linux distro. You would need to install Ubuntu or Windows Xp to make it useful. This fake is running OS X which means it probably has some decent specs. The only good thing about the Eee Pc is size.
The new iPhone also in the picture – it’s the new iPhone Nano – featuring the rotary dial mentioned in the recent patent.
Umm, maybe not…
Name: gav said
“PALM problem when typeing so – not real — GO BAKE A FAKE!”
Main reason why I think it’s a fake too.
That is almost certainly not a problem. Any halfway decent “multi-touch” implementation of this kind will have palm detection & filtering. That’s one of the easier things to do once you’re going there.
If Apple hasn’t issued a legal order to take it down, it’s a fake.
Some guy in Sweden simply photoshopped this. I have a hard time imagining that someone in Cupertino happened to be reading “Anglar och Demoner” (Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons”) in Swedish while QA’ing his pre-production MacSubNotebook. It’s not impossible — just implausible from my point of view that this originated from someone connected to Apple (or to the Chinese plants producing the alleged new subnotebooks).
The book on the right side of the picture is Dan Browns Angels and Daemons but in SWEDISH. The propability for a new unreleased version ending up in Sweden is quite small… He could be a Swede working at Apple though…
Why is there a critical error pop-up box on it :S
That’s like unveiling a brand new car, that can’t start…
fake. apple isn’t so stupid as to keep the same keyboard design
did anyone notice the dock bar icons are in the same order on both of them . this is a fake. all he did was use a snap of mac book with different stuff running and changed the placement on the desktop icons
It is totally fake! Look at the icons on the dock!. You can see that both of the screen shots were taken from the same computer because all of the icons(non-active) are in the exact same order.
It looks like a 12″ Powerbook with an iSight P-Chopped in and the trackpad widened…
The work of a college student with obviously too much time on his hands…
People have talked of a mini-tablet – i.e. a 7″ or 10″ iPhone like device. Just not sure how that complements the iPhone or a MacBook.
I think the Ultra-Portable will be slotted in between the MacBook and MBP price-wise.
I can’t see Apple introducing a third product to carry around (iPhone/MB/Small Tablet).
Therefore, even if this pic is a fake, it seems plausible that something very similar will be forthcoming at MWSF 2008.
that has zero ‘wow’ factor
enough said
@ rooster13
Very, very true.
Alright Chrissy! I was waiting for your PT butt to wake up and give us a pro’s opinion.
@Everyone
Enough about the Dan Brown book, already! It proves… yep. Nothing. How ’bout this for plausibility:
“Hey Martha, Steve wants a fake floating the internet to get people foaming at the mouth. ‘Make it real good, but not great quality-wise’ he said, which makes sense because people *are* happier when a puzzle takes a little work. Oh, by the way, throw some crazy s&^* in there too, just to make things interesting. I don’t know, like a medieval flag or something like that. Go take a peek in a few cubicles on 3 and see what you find. If anyone asks what you’re doing tell just tell them, ‘The Lord needs it.'”
(Bonus points for you if you know where the last reference is from!)
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i call fake.
the funny thing is that the desk it is sitting on looks EXACTLY like one of the cadet desks at my alma matter: New Mexico Military Institute. i seem to remember there were a few cadets there with a LOT of time on there hands and they were very skilled with PS.
I found more rumor picture of that and a new ipod touch on this site:
http://greenrabbits.blogspot.com/
I’m not a photoshop expert either, but I think a very bright spot light somewhere just over the ipod would create the shadows that are shown. Still, to me it looks like a fake because of all the previous functionality issues already pointed out.
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