This isn't it

Cleve Nettles
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September 20, 2008
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But thanks for playing the brick riddle, Superfunny...

Any other takers out there?

 

Remember we are talking MacBook Touch with glass trackpad here....

This is closer:

Does Brick = Wireless USB Hub?    

Comments (28)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 20, 2008 - 5:31pm

The brick lives! Please be a Mini replacement that costs $300. AppleTV+Time Capsule on steroids!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 20, 2008 - 7:29pm

Pictured is the replacement for the Mighty Mouse.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 20, 2008 - 7:37pm

hahaha ^^^

Olternaut (not verified) | September 20, 2008 - 7:58pm

LOL! Nice try superfunny. But keep them mockups coming anyway!

9to5Mac Noobee (not verified) | September 20, 2008 - 9:25pm

Maybe wireless charging we've been hearing about?

Juanlu (not verified) | September 20, 2008 - 9:45pm

A USB hub w/ no attachement to the computer. Hope is not!

topherfangio | September 20, 2008 - 10:29pm

Anyone notice the URL? Looks like "magoog.apple.com/MacBook" which is odd in and of itself, for a few reasons. Obviously, the magoog is most likely wrong, however, the other oddity is that MacBook is capitalized unlike on Apple's current website. Also, the image appears to be of Apple's frontpage, however, /MacBook would point to a subpage. Setting up your own redirect that would look like Apple's site to your own computer is fairly easy, so we can pretty safely assume that this doesn't point to an actual web location.

And not that it really makes any difference, but you can tell that Photoshop is an open application at the bottom.

Anyway, things I find funny...although whoever did the image of the new machine, real or not, did an excellent job in my book and it does look very Appleish to me :-) I would LOVE to see a machine like that!

iThink, iMac, therefore iAm

random truth (not verified) | September 20, 2008 - 11:11pm

how about this? http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e43/skylersaleh/macbookmockup.png

5to9Mac Noob (not verified) | September 20, 2008 - 11:13pm

I think "The Brick" will be an iPhone 3G with a battery pack the size of the old Motorola "brick phone". 600 hours of talk time!

beez1717 (not verified) | September 21, 2008 - 1:09am

I don't want a wireless USB hub at all. That's because then someone could sniff the data from my keyboard and see what i'm typing

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 21, 2008 - 1:26am

Don't they call that bluetooth? My keyboard, mouse and wacom tablet are all bluetooth, so i don't think a 'wireless USB hub' would particularly groundreaking, new, or required. And my printer runs from a USB port on the back of my wireless BT hub 2.0 - wireless USB is already with us...

pugh (not verified) | September 29, 2008 - 12:51pm

How did you get your printer to run from the usb port on the back of your BT hub

Please help - one frustrated Mac owner

Ben (not verified) | September 21, 2008 - 8:09am

I've just thought, alot of people refer to their hard drive as a brick?

It's hardly like theres no market there - portable wireless harddrive?

shove that in your car glove box and your laptop/ipods wirelessly 1TB.

what do you think?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 21, 2008 - 12:00pm

well here's a longshot:
what if 'the brick' is the accessoire that turns your tablet into a desktop? so you put your tablet mac (imagine it like a 14" iphone... sweet) on a stand and it wirelessly connects to the brick for keyboard, mouse, peripherals, power, cd (built into the brick) and what not.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 21, 2008 - 5:41pm

The Brick is a wireless CPU. Look at "This is closer." above. A Macbook Air that's only a monitor and keyboard. Everything else is wireless external.

I'd like to offer Stevie McPevie a name for this junk - shared optical drive, shared CPU: Macbook DuBoise, ala, "I have always relied upon the kindness of strangers." Or how 'bout "Brother, can you spare an optical drive/hard drive?"

Lighter, slimmer. The transient Macbook.

iMacmatician (not verified) | September 22, 2008 - 2:03pm

You might be onto something there!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 21, 2008 - 7:52pm

Lighter than AIR. New macbook air? if its real, likely not tho. i hope the new macbook comes with an optical drive tho unlike wat ive read from other probably wrong sources.

iMacmatician (not verified) | September 22, 2008 - 2:02pm

...maybe you know some things you aren't telling us? The suspense is building!

I can see a MacBook Pro release tomorrow and a combined MacBook, "brick," and mini-laptop/mini-tablet/tablet event on October 14.

And does "this is closer" mean the actual notebook (mini-laptop) in the image or the wireless thing? Whatever it is, I'll be ready!

MacPredictions (not verified) | September 22, 2008 - 2:28pm

"SmartBrick" - a power adapter with integrated port replicator, supporting USB hub, ethernet and DVI via a single MagSafe cable

More details:
http://www.macpredictions.com/2008/09/smartbrick-apples-one-cable-magsaf...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 22, 2008 - 2:28pm

New mac mini with the same foot print as the new time machine and apple tv so you can now stack them to make a tower. You can easily have a smaller desktop with a time machine no top giving you and the rest of the household access to a TB of information. Home networking at it finest. Also I'm expecting new displays to go along with the entire redesign. Everything mac will now be aluminum and black : )

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 22, 2008 - 2:28pm

New mac mini with the same foot print as the new time machine and apple tv so you can now stack them to make a tower. You can easily have a smaller desktop with a time machine no top giving you and the rest of the household access to a TB of information. Home networking at it finest. Also I'm expecting new displays to go along with the entire redesign. Everything mac will now be aluminum and black : )

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 22, 2008 - 3:29pm

Maybe apple will have an interchangeable line of laptops
Brick (all ports, drives, etc) and wirelessly transmits it to the laptop or monitor
then a line of bluetooth keyboards and monitors (either as a desktop or as a laptop) which can be interchangeable.....

the actual brick can range from mac mini to macbook pro depending on how much you want to pay

Brett Lowry (not verified) | September 22, 2008 - 6:10pm

When i read this, my mind went back to the Gateway One "Power I/O Bar."

Here's a pic

http://www.wiredprairie.us/journal/2007/09/gateways_one_io_power_bar_fre...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | September 22, 2008 - 7:37pm

What if the reported glass trackpad in a revised macbook were removable and functioned as an ipod touch or even a more sophisticated portable device?

The codename 'brick' could have been taken from the bricked iPhones, so as to throw off suspicion but make it clear internally what was being talked about.

Just a thought.

Justin (not verified) | September 23, 2008 - 11:29am

i think that they figured it out. the new apple laptops will be better, and lower in price... which will smash windows laptops.

'bricks' smash 'windows'

Fabien G (not verified) | September 23, 2008 - 2:48pm

How about the brick being like some sort of accessory for the macbook air. the macbook air is light and thin but lacks external stuff, how about it being so sort of appleTV + dvd burner + external HDD made for the macbook air?

9to5Mac Nooooob (not verified) | September 23, 2008 - 6:07pm

This is a Mac mini with a built-in APC?

Em (not verified) | September 25, 2008 - 8:24am

Bricks are one piece so this can refer to the tablet.

Glass track pad = the whole screen is a track pad (touch screen)