New MacBook shell pictures popping up all over Asia
Thu, 10/09/2008 - 7:32am — Cleve Nettles
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It's like everyone and their brother has some new Apple parts laying around the house at this point. Apple.pro chimes in against last night's shot with a few from someone with some fugly hands... You can see the CRT television, the running shoes, the smokes and some very Apple-icious cases. Let's all remember that Asia is the land of amazing knock-offs and just because some dude has a bunch of MacBook type shells in his house, it doesn't mean thats what will be in stores later this month. Huge-er shots after the break.
This could be me being dumb, but in the third pic doesn't the disc slot seem to take up almost the whole side of the device?
Does that mean... a) It's a laserdisc drive in a 17 inch Macbook pro
b) it's a third device to the other leaked photos we've seen - the sub $800 sub-notebook perhaps.
wtf now how can Apple be setting up this kickass aluminium laser cutting factory in California - yet these pictures are from Asia - notice too that there is no base so there is no way that the new macbook's claim to fame is that its been made from a brick of aluminium what a load of bollocks !!!
calm down. It's perspective. Look at the hand, the slot is pretty much the size as we have it on the Macbooks now. If what we see here is the real thing it looks to me like the replacement of the Macbook, with pretty much the same size we have now.
We got the MagSafe, we have Ethernet, we have two USB-slots and something that be a mini-firewire port. There are two 3.5mm jacks for audio, and a security connector. The whole thing seems to be VERY thin, there might (!) be a power button close to the location where it is now, and it certainly looks to me like being manufactured in one piece.
The holes for the keys do look right to me, a quick count tells me it's possible, and we are looking at an American model. There COULD be a two button trackpad with the connector in the center, it also could be glass, but who knows.
To me this looks pretty real, although I seem to remember something like "the case is made in ONE piece"... wouldn't that mean that the bottom should be there, too?
Not sure with the size though, it MIGHT be a current Macbook upper case painted silver........
Exactly! Maybe this guy who is holding the case works in the factory where Apple assembles their products, and he snatched a top-case of the new MacBook! Come on October 14th!
The first picture look alot the same as the Macbook Air, but the power buttnon is on another place. If you look away from the power button, it looks exactly like the air. Picture number two is not like any macs, but if the macbook gets silverpaint on they might look the same.
I have no idea if its fake or not, I just hope its real so i can buy a new Macbook when it get released.
The case is not of a Macbook Air, it is thinner and the connectors are beneath of the bend of the fitting of the two slices of the body (in the inferior part). The piece may be a rejected case used in manufacture tests. However the poster didn't care showing some running shoes hung around, hehehe, but she kept her face protected, or it was an attitude done by a man that used a woman to dissimulate that the "revelation" was done by a woman.
Thu, 10/09/2008 - 8:57am — Chris Devers (not verified)
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On the current Macbook, the left lid hinge lines up with roughly the left side of the F2 key, and the right side of the F11 key on the right hinge. The power button is directly above the Eject key at the top right corner.
On the Macbook Air, the hinges line up with the Escape and Eject keys, and the power button is on the right edge parallel with the Eject key.
On this device, the hinge seems to come to roughly the gap between the Esc/F1 keys on the left, and the F12/Eject keys on the right, with the power button diagonally "northeast" of the Eject key.
That could just mean a wider hinge assembly, but it could also imply that this is a new size somewhere between that of the MB and the MBA.
That would also be consistent with a smaller frame (forcing the optical drive slot to take up a larger proportion of the right side).
Also, as for the left side I/O ports, they look different from the current MB ones. At a guess, it looks like it's Magsafe, Ethernet, two USB ports, mini-DVI, audio in & out, and the security lock. Nothing there looks like a Firewire port, unless they're using FW800, which would be about the same size as the mini-DVI port, but it can only be one or the other, and it seems like keeping the video out port would make a lot more sense than the Firewire port.
To me, this all implies a device with a frame smaller & flatter than the current Macbook, though not as flat as the Macbook Air. It either has a smaller screen than those (12"), or the bezel around the display got narrower.
thank god for those sneaky camel smoking sneaker wearing asian chicks that steal parts from assembly factories (???) in china. they make such classy pictures..
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"HandsOn" the new MacBook
"HandsOn" the new MacBook ;)
This could be me being dumb,
This could be me being dumb, but in the third pic doesn't the disc slot seem to take up almost the whole side of the device?
Does that mean... a) It's a laserdisc drive in a 17 inch Macbook pro
b) it's a third device to the other leaked photos we've seen - the sub $800 sub-notebook perhaps.
God I hope so.
Discuss
The slot
I noticed that too. This could be HUGELY small, but the price won't be.
the guy is wearing blue
the guy is wearing blue jeans. it must be steve jobs.
Hehe
Haha, YES! This must be Steve Jobs way to show of the new product :-)!
The hand is female:)
The hand is female:)
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Products*
wtf now how can Apple be
wtf now how can Apple be setting up this kickass aluminium laser cutting factory in California - yet these pictures are from Asia - notice too that there is no base so there is no way that the new macbook's claim to fame is that its been made from a brick of aluminium what a load of bollocks !!!
If the top bottom and sides
If the top bottom and sides we're all one piece, how would they get any internals into it!!!
Of course it needs to be separated somewhere, and that doesn't mean it hasn't been made from one brick of aluminium.
i guess it is similar to the
i guess it is similar to the macbookair where everything seems to be integrated in the topcase
Crap.
The whole "milled out of a brick of Aluminum" is garbage.
The case is cast from molten aluminum, and then the edges are die cut and machined, like a car engine block or aircraft engine parts.
Zero waste (all scrap Aluminum is simply put back in the hopper), highly recyclable, and the aluminum is basically the stuff of tossed soda pop cans.
This is similar to making it out of plastic, except less waste. And it's reliable, and easier to scale up versus bending sheet aluminum into shape.
Perspective
Guys,
calm down. It's perspective. Look at the hand, the slot is pretty much the size as we have it on the Macbooks now. If what we see here is the real thing it looks to me like the replacement of the Macbook, with pretty much the same size we have now.
We got the MagSafe, we have Ethernet, we have two USB-slots and something that be a mini-firewire port. There are two 3.5mm jacks for audio, and a security connector. The whole thing seems to be VERY thin, there might (!) be a power button close to the location where it is now, and it certainly looks to me like being manufactured in one piece.
The holes for the keys do look right to me, a quick count tells me it's possible, and we are looking at an American model. There COULD be a two button trackpad with the connector in the center, it also could be glass, but who knows.
To me this looks pretty real, although I seem to remember something like "the case is made in ONE piece"... wouldn't that mean that the bottom should be there, too?
Not sure with the size though, it MIGHT be a current Macbook upper case painted silver........
It is not an original Macbook painted silver
Have you ever opened your Macbook? The whole top part comes off to give you access to the motherboard.
This one is different. it seems the screws will be on bottom and when you remove them the whole top part + the sides will be removed.
The start button is in the
The start button is in the wrong place for the current macbook.
well, doesn't that mean that
well, doesn't that mean that the macbook are in fact "assembled in China" and not in Steve Jobs Chocolate Factory in california
Exactly! Maybe this guy who
Exactly! Maybe this guy who is holding the case works in the factory where Apple assembles their products, and he snatched a top-case of the new MacBook! Come on October 14th!
lol at the Steve Jobs
lol at the Steve Jobs chocolate factory thats the last thing we need a fucking ichocolate
Is her hand covering
Is her hand covering something? It looks like there is a label under there and not an apple...
Think your right. it does
Think your right. it does look like she's covering some type of lable with her hand.
Same old design
They have invited fingerprint reader.. Huraa...
Looks all the same only aluminum.
Could be an NVIDIA logo..
Could be an NVIDIA logo..
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The first picture look alot the same as the Macbook Air, but the power buttnon is on another place. If you look away from the power button, it looks exactly like the air. Picture number two is not like any macs, but if the macbook gets silverpaint on they might look the same.
I have no idea if its fake or not, I just hope its real so i can buy a new Macbook when it get released.
IT IS NOT THE MACBOOK AIR
Hey Folks!
The case is not of a Macbook Air, it is thinner and the connectors are beneath of the bend of the fitting of the two slices of the body (in the inferior part). The piece may be a rejected case used in manufacture tests. However the poster didn't care showing some running shoes hung around, hehehe, but she kept her face protected, or it was an attitude done by a man that used a woman to dissimulate that the "revelation" was done by a woman.
Proportions are different from current MacBooks
On the current Macbook, the left lid hinge lines up with roughly the left side of the F2 key, and the right side of the F11 key on the right hinge. The power button is directly above the Eject key at the top right corner.
On the Macbook Air, the hinges line up with the Escape and Eject keys, and the power button is on the right edge parallel with the Eject key.
On this device, the hinge seems to come to roughly the gap between the Esc/F1 keys on the left, and the F12/Eject keys on the right, with the power button diagonally "northeast" of the Eject key.
That could just mean a wider hinge assembly, but it could also imply that this is a new size somewhere between that of the MB and the MBA.
That would also be consistent with a smaller frame (forcing the optical drive slot to take up a larger proportion of the right side).
Also, as for the left side I/O ports, they look different from the current MB ones. At a guess, it looks like it's Magsafe, Ethernet, two USB ports, mini-DVI, audio in & out, and the security lock. Nothing there looks like a Firewire port, unless they're using FW800, which would be about the same size as the mini-DVI port, but it can only be one or the other, and it seems like keeping the video out port would make a lot more sense than the Firewire port.
To me, this all implies a device with a frame smaller & flatter than the current Macbook, though not as flat as the Macbook Air. It either has a smaller screen than those (12"), or the bezel around the display got narrower.
Shift?
Something seems wrong about the left shiftkey. Something is also wrong with the return/enter key.
Notice the sneakers in the corner in one of the pictures. Surely, this is Steve Job´s wife showing of prototypes... ;-)
fApple
thank god for those sneaky camel smoking sneaker wearing asian chicks that steal parts from assembly factories (???) in china. they make such classy pictures..
Video
This looks like stills from a video to me, YouTube anyone?