AppleInsider reports, “Production ready versions of Apple’s next-generation MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks have surfaced stateside in matching attire, according to reports.”
“According to the latest reports, both the new 13-inch MacBooks and 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros will share similarities not only in their employment of aluminum enclosures, but in their overall aesthetic as well, with the new 13-inch MacBooks for the first time matching their higher-priced cousins as if they were members of the same product family,” AppleInsider reports.
“The new designs were described as a cross between the 13-inch MacBook Air introduced this January and the aluminum iMacs that made their debut during the summer of 2007,” AppleInsider reports.
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[Attributions: AllThingsD and iPhone Savior. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: “We will be delivering state-of-the-art new products that I cannot discuss today that our competitors will not be able to match.” – Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer, July 21, 2008
me want one
looks nice, I hope it’s true! Those designs would make sense.
Maybe we can hope for a 13″ with video card? would be sweet!
by the way, a little throw back to the clamshell ibook, anyone?
Is that a dock in an LCD-like trackpad I see….?
I’m a tad skeptical about this.
@cmw,
Not a dock, Apple did away with the latch on the Macbook and Macbook Air and replaced it with a magnet. There is a little cut out to allow you to open the lid… That’s what you are seeing as a dock.
The keyboard looks exactly like the one on the old Titanium PowerBooks, and that Dock-on-Trackpad thing looks fake.
I call fake.
@Macintosh and @cmw –
Not “a dock” – “the Dock” as in the application bar at the bottom of your screen.
I noticed it too and I think it is totally fake – to separate that functionality from the OS would be completely limiting it to the laptop as the desktops and servers would not have this trackpad – unless THAT is the brick?
@ macintosh
i believe he is talking about the dock that launches applications…its on the trackpad, but not on the screen
the dock is in the track pad. This is a cool idea to save space. Use the pad as part of the screen.
Holy crap batman! take a close look at that image. If my eyes are correct that is in fact a multi-touch LCD about the same as iphone or touch and would justify the remark about new products the competition cant match. What do you think?
What is that below the keyboard? Where the trackpad belongs.
Oh, it’s already been discussed.
I see the dock in the trackpad, too. Looks fake, but interesting idea.
i hope apple will go to a 16:9 screen-ratio. everything else would be a huge disapointment. after october we will have to wait another 2-4 years before new apple laptops will come out so they better will have long lasting designs and 16:9 is the future. in a year from now all laptops will have that ratio.
So, are these skinnier too?
So….would there be a purpose in using an LCD trackpad? A forced migration to Touch in all future products?
It is Apple’s patent bounty. And in business, it’s said for profit you’ve got three (differentiating) Ps: People, processes, and patents.
Trying to imagine using that……
Quad-Core MacBook Pros!
If Dell can release one… yesterday… Apple needs to!
Is this the idea that applications can provide their own specific buttons via the new trackpad. No, what am I thinking of! how would you then scroll?
I believe that is precisely what we will see. A glass (like) trackpad that will provide a new multitouch interface. Displaying the dock on the screen, trackpad, or both, may simply be an option.
Though I hope this is true – that’s one sexy machine – this looks like a fake to me. The edges around the computer look blurred.
The trackpad made with glass face and can functions as the one on iPhone… 2 fingers down and tab twice bring up the Dock to launch the apps and tab twice again to hide it. the multi-touch pad also does other functions … nice to have a small little screen on the touch pad… just my thought here.
Using the body frame of the guy in the pic, and matching that up with the office background, they will find this guy, string him up, and send him to meet Jimmy Hoffa.
Better not have glossy screens.
Please, please, oh please, not a black keyboard.
APPLE should encase it with the skin of their competitors!