“Allegedly this is a leaked pre-release shot of Apple’s website featuring the new MacBook Touch tablet device,” Touch User Guide reports.
Touch User Guide reports, “Notice the little tab under the video player, could this be the new ‘Cocktail’ feature that everyone is talking about right now?”
Full article, with larger photo, here.
MacDailyNews Note: Real or not, you decide. All we know (beyond the fact that that capital “T” on “Touch” gnaws at us), is that 13 months ago we reported a rumor that Apple’s secret product is ‘MacBook touch’. Said our source — the same one who tipped us to wireless iTunes Store sales direct to iPod and iPhone a week before Apple debuted it — in staccato fashion:
Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech. Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at “low” price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.
Our source subsequently told us that “the SuperDrive will not be part of the finished devices, ‘It was just in some of the prototypes for various reason(s).'”
Maybe our source was one October ahead?
“When I think about you,
I touch my….Cocktail”
[cue street lamp] I want to believe.
We will get this shit straight once and for all as soon as we have definite confirmation from the WaWa Sandwich Man.
Nothing else will do!
the site is down now….maybe there is some fact in this after all?
No, it’s down because the need to establish a DB connection for every page-view.
This doesn’t work when you get steam-rollered by referrers from various Mac news-sites….
The design of the MacBook Touch correlates with the MacTablet picture that was published a few days ago on the following page:
http://www.nowhereelse.fr/enfin-une-authentique-photo-de-la-mactablet-itouch-22919/
There seem to be differences in the edges of both pictured devices (one is metal, the other plastic) but that could indicate one of the two is a prototype. I am more interested by the same placement of the ‘Home’ button in the same location on both devices.For me that detail gives some more credibility to both pictures.
FAKE.
The “Mac” tab in the main navigation bar isn’t highlighted.
You wonder why the t in Touch is a big and not a small one?
Hey, all guys with a Macbook Pro should take a look at their machine…….read…..oh, the p in Pro is a big one,too.
Satisfied?
like a person could create a fake website with images and text and take a quick snapshot. nooooo…. : /
Martin Beutling,
Mac mini
iPod touch
Nice fake, but not without its flaws. I really have to hand to some of the creative people who come up with this stuff.
In addition to being blank, the menu bar looks opaque and not transparent.
fake im afraid, what is it? arm or intel, they would both mean very different things with regards to apps etc and it shows both, and also if it is running normal safari / osx, it might need a menu in the menu bar dont ya think (it is the top application as it has highlighted close butons
There are simply too many things about this image that do not make sense.
It’s just an iPhone stretched out with screen shots piled on top of each other. It’s not very creative at all.
if this we’re a real preview page, the url in the image would not be http://www.apple.com. It would probably be on a private subdomain or have a longer address. Fakers.
It’s fake because I’ve seen that model before as a fake.
What the hell is this cocktail feature everyone is talking about?
Can someone please explain what this is suppose to be? Are there any links to any sites talking about or explaining this?
That picture is a chop and a poor one at that.
Fake. This just doesn’t make sense from a usability standpoint. Portability would be no better than a MacBook and lack a keyboard in favor of one that would obliterate half the screen while providing no tactile feedback which is very important to efficient typing. Others are right, there’s no need for a Home button when there’s a dock and the concept opens up a whole bag of worms as far as basic usability is concerned. Who wants a big-ass iPhone???
Fake. The design is just an iPhone made a bit taller and a bit wider. All the design is recycled from existing designs. If it were real there would be something new in it. The web page would require us to believe that this was accidentally thrown up on Apple’s main web site and nobody else noticed. It’s not even a screen shot, it’s a digital camera photo of a screen. It’s rather lame, actually.
In above comment–“a lot wider,” not “a bit wider.”
You can totally see the wires.
Gosh darnet! Someone explain this whole cocktail thing… What the heck is it????
Hmmm. 9to5Mac.com had this same thing posted earlier today, but it was removed from the Web site after a few hours.
This also looks similar to the mock-up of a proposed Mac tablet that one of the Gizmodo guys had created several days ago, and which disappeared suddenly from the Giz site shortly after its appearance.
So…it will be interesting to see if Leaked photo shows Apple.com’s ‘Macbook Touch’ splash page? (with photo) disappears from MDN later.
Not saying this image isn’t fake, but could it be close enough to make Apple pick up the phone?
Fake.
“iPhone Apps & OS X living in perfect harmony”
Rubbish. The iPhone runs OS X too anyway, and Apple definitely knows that.
If the fakers hadn’t been as amateurish as they obviously are, they would have known that an explicit “Mac” reference would have been called for, not “OS X” which runs on both Macs and iPhones equally – on the one hand in its iPhone OS X incarnation and on the other as Mac OS X.
Besides: It is simply not feasible to run both iPhone and Mac apps on the same compact battery-powered device to any satisfactory extent with current or near-term plausible technology.
One of the worst fakes in recent memory.