French website Nowhereelse.fr has posted a video they’ve headlined, “Is this the first video of the MacTablet aka TabletMac?”
Direct link via YouTube here.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you had a rogue Apple tablet, and you wanted to videotape it for all the world to see, would you go shopping for comfy chairs and kitchen cabinets? ‘Tis the start of the silly season, with no Macworld Expo keynote to stop the rumor mill from spinning this year (an Apple Media Event, TBA, will have to do). Go easy on the eggnog, now, ya hear?
Did anyone notice that when he was flicking through the graphical menu at the bottom, it didn’t ‘toss’ (I’m sure theres a term for it) like the iphone does, ie when you flick a menu on the iphone, it keeps going at the speed you flicked it and then rolls to a stop? This video looks more like a verizon smart phone that flicking just moves you incrementally in one direction or another
Gizmodo says “Unfortunately, it’s fake. A clever fake over a blue screen—as you can notice on the hands’ edges and shadows—but fake nonetheless.”
I’m inclined to agree.
Looks real even the screen is flickering like a LCD screen refreshing. Fits rumoured spec 10 inch, really thin, looks like isight camera in middle, basically large ipod touch with 3G capability, PA semi chip maybe
Nowhereelse.fr’s headline should read, “Is this the first attempt at trying to get webpage hits by pretending to have real footage of a future, unannounced product that everyone is talking about?”
Islandgirl
What else do you do while inclined….?
that’s G1
@ January 24, 1984
Yeah, I totally agree, there’s no way they could fake that tablet video footage. Just like the movie Avatar, there’s no way they could have faked that movie, they definitely needed to get the alien help to film it on the Na’vi home planet. And Star Wars too! They had to have filmed all of those movies in a galaxy far, far away… There’s just no way to fake footage like that!
Amazing….
Fake on not, it looks pretty cool.
I like that translucent CoverFlow-like thing under the dock.
The close bubbles were on the wrong side.
Anyway, I refuse to get excited about vaporware.
Super cool, but not the Apple Tablet. How do I know? Because Apple Legal hasn’t called Google to have the video removed from YouTube yet.
Just an AJAX website… Nothing to see here, keep moving.
And they said the fatboy nano wasn’t real, either.
The eyesight camera and the iPhone/iPod bars at the top are hard to fake.
Maybe this is just one of many prototypes out there in testing…I thought it would be a little more widescreen.
Maybe Apple didn’t choose the Ikea stuff…whoever did the video chose it. It is an angled camera…hard to fake.
Well, since I just bought a kitchen’s worth of cabinets, this was very interesting.
I think it’s real. It has the formfactor of an MBA lid.
The close “x” on the right seems odd, but since most people are righthanded, having the “x” on the right for a tablet device makes sense.
As for why would someone be shopping the IKEA catalog, I think Apple seeded some companies with devices so that they could have apps running at launch, and use them for the launch presentation. That IKEA catalog is way more interactive than their website
“That IKEA catalog is way more interactive than their website”
Yes, which is why this looks like a motion grab of a prototyping of the new IKEA catalog site, which may indeed work this way with a tablet or the iPhone/touch, nicely FX’d into this video. It also appeared that the product was lighter than an Apple tablet would be, and I’m basing that upon iPod touch benchmark.
No way would Apple waste that much real estate above and below the screen area. Look at how the left hand holds it. Fingers must struggle not to obscure part of the screen, yet the area at the bottom is wasted. Bleah. Fugly. Fake, non-event.
Am I the only one that noticed the ATT “bars” in the top-left hand corner, with the time in the top-center, and the battery and percentage in the top-right corner?
It is either a VERY WELL DONE fake, or this is the real deal.
I’m pretty convinced myself.
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mw: kept. Someone should’ve kept this to themselves.
As I see it, it’s fake. I think there are a few things that indicate it:
– The image is too crisp compared to the rest of the scene.
– The screen itself should reflect a lot, but it doesn’t.
– The hand shadows on the screen look kind of weird.
– The tablet seldom moves slightly as the video goes on. One would expect the guy in the video to at least show the tablet around.
It’s not too hard to stick a screen recording onto a fake tablet in Apple Motion or Adobe After Effects. I call it fake, definitively.
As Orson Welles would say, ” ‘F’ is for ‘FAKE’ “.
Beautifully rendered and executed illustration of the Apple Tablet idea, and, video slight-of-hand. – Orson would be proud!
Fab yet fake. Sorry Charlie..
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Its a viral ad for ikea. yes,they did want to mimick the at&t;bars and 3g. Why else would all that money get thrown at a fake. Ikea wants more holiday traffic and some clever marketing team knew how to cash in on the tablet hype.
Okay, while I think it’s real, or perhaps, I would like it to be real, it is true that the tablet seemed very light, as his left hand had no trouble holding it, and didn’t seem to shake at all. Usually, these kinds of vids have some uncontrolled moments of motion. Either this guy has steadier hands than the guy who does the iPhone ads, or this is very likely fake.
Ditto, G4Dualie. The Coverflow feature was clearly not an Apple implementation. It responded slowly and jerked abruptly to a stop.
Nonetheless, this video does convey some of the potential of a tablet form factor for consumer and business use. Not as portable as an iPhone or iPod touch, but far more screen real estate and longer battery life (if it is designed correctly). It appears to me that the translucent window that was used for the ‘coverflow’ demo could be used for a virtual keyboard for email, instant messaging, etc.
Great fake!
So the interface isn’t perfect, the rubber banding is absent, etc. It’s exciting nonetheless.
Because the components would be spread out behind the screen instead of of packed in as with the iPhone the device should be deliciously thin.
Only Apple could pull off a tablet computer, and I can’t wait to get my hands on one.
Its a good fake – but fake. Just look at the reflecting light on the left hand. Woudnt the light from the screen reflect on the hand from such vibrant screen movement? But nothing.
That and the fake applied shadow of the right pointing hand.
But I really hope Apple releases such a tablet this january. I´ll by one for sure! Happy holidays people from Norway.
Also interesting – video released on French website, but appears to be British (features £ (GBP) not Euro). Still fake.
Fake or not, I want one, and did you see the cool handheld device in the top right of the video. Yes, an Apple Newton.