Nothing like a good round of crappy mockups and likely-faux leaked Jobs to get the old rumor juices flowing. Check out a few of these pre-Macworld photoshops circulating the internets, and the MacRumors um, rumor, which has the full leaked "scoop" on what Jobs is going to be announcing on the 15th (MacBook Nano 13-inch ultraportable with SSD, MacTouch dual-screen multi-touch folding / sliding SSD tablet, Mac mini redesigned with solid state, half the height and named the Mac Nano, Penryn Mac Pro with Blu-ray option, Penryn MacBook Pro with black aluminum option, iSight-enabled Cinema Displays, blah blah blah). Here's a hint: we have no reason to believe any of this anything but positively fake and pure speculation. Enjoy!
P.S. -You can stop tipping us on these now, kthx.
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BigD @ Jan 5th 2008 7:39PM
I'd like to meet them and touch them up...too bad they're all render-y.
Ireland @ Jan 6th 2008 2:45PM
They aren't render-y in the Apple labs.
Mac touch FTW!!
Will @ Jan 5th 2008 7:39PM
I especially like the crappiness of the keyboard on the dual screen version!
Both of those are pretty terrible though.
Jon Doe @ Jan 5th 2008 7:40PM
Too revolutionary. It can't be an Apple product.
Ireland @ Jan 6th 2008 2:47PM
Yeah cause the original Macintosh was a step backwards right? And the iPhone design and user interface is so crap yeah?
Wrong.
John P @ Jan 5th 2008 7:44PM
The Nintendo DS and the Macbook are at a party, get drunk, Macbook gets pregnant, and out pops this.
jamma @ Jan 5th 2008 8:24PM
The DS and Macbook already look strangely similar, i think this is incest!
Taz @ Jan 5th 2008 7:45PM
heh... I'd love to see the battery life on that Apple monster DS
BigD @ Jan 5th 2008 7:49PM
LED backlighting+Penryn might make it manageable.
Mike @ Jan 5th 2008 7:53PM
Christ, why are mockups always so unoriginal and horrible? Ever since the iPhone came out, every last damn mockup for any new Mac device is just a massive iPhone in various dimensions...
dave @ Jan 5th 2008 8:28PM
yeah i agree. i think that the modbook is going in the right direction. we dont want another iphone
TMM @ Jan 5th 2008 8:16PM
All these speculations! Enough, I say!
But let me first add something:
Forget TouchScreenMac. Not now, not later.
13" MBP ... Makes sense. Would be great.
But what I hope:
3. Slightly better, a liitle cheaper Cinema Displays.
2. Mac mini update. Wouldn't be 4GB Ram and Full HD video be great?
But:
1. What about the Mac. Doesn't anybody but me wonder about where the Mac is.
just follow the naming.
There's a Mac mini, an iMac and a Mac Pro.
While there is a MacBook and a MBP, there is something missing in the Desktop lineup. It should be like this:
Mac mini - Mac - Mac Pro
Or is the iMac "the" Mac?
I hope not, because I badly need a cheaper, not so mega-powered Desktop, where I can attach a Display of my choice. The Mac Pro is overkill for me.
So let's all pray for a MAC!
Dual Core
Add more HD or RAM
Exchange graphic
Exchange drives
Attach any display
costs half of Mac Pro
Everybody happy!
Alan @ Jan 5th 2008 10:04PM
I completely agree. I've been wanting a "real" mac desktop that costs less than a mac pro and doesn't include a display that I have to throw away once my internal hardware becomes obsolete. My 2006 macbook simply isn't enough for a decent Adobe Lightroom experience, let alone Aperture.
1nteresting @ Jan 5th 2008 11:55PM
That's what the Mac Mini is. You can add your own display, plus it's not so powerful. >_< Why make something new to compete with something that already works?
TMM @ Jan 6th 2008 6:58AM
Well, yes ... bring your own keyboard and mouse and display with the Mac mini.
The problem is: it's not really user serviceable. Upgrading the HD ist not really easy to do.
And it's really, really, underpowered. I think it will be either upgraded to Santa Rosa or completly removed. Even the 2GHZ C2D Mac mini can't really play 1080p reliable.
And who'd buy that as an alternative to a Mac Pro? Nobody.
I hope that Apple understands that a lot of people are in need of of cut down Mac Pro ... and I still insist on calling that thing: the Mac.
Nate @ Jan 6th 2008 2:11PM
Yes, i've talked about this for a year and a half now. They need a mac desktop that is the desktop that everyone is used to, and that you can go in and customize as easily as the Mac Pro, but it be half the price.
Andrew Campbell @ Jan 12th 2008 2:52PM
Nate: That's exactly what Apple won't do: Create something that everyone's "used to". Apple's products always played off of "different" and "revolutionary". Not to mention, you get what you pay for. Spend $600 on a PC, or $1200 on a Mac. And see which one will run longer. Leopard's running on a iBook G3s. Thats more than you can say for Vista. Which won't even run on my PC.
wctodd @ Jan 5th 2008 8:28PM
The MacTouch looks pretty cool. Yeah it's some photoshop on the iPhone but still not a bad setup.
L.Rawlins @ Jan 5th 2008 8:36PM
In my view, the top one's plausible, and the bottom one's laughable.
josh @ Jan 5th 2008 8:51PM
"the bottom one's laughable."
No kidding, could you imagine trying to type on a normal laptop without real keys? I played around once with one of those nifty infrared projectible keyboards and it absolutely sucked; I don't see how a touch based keyboard would be any better. Real typing on a perfectly flat surface is physically painful amazingly quickly, and the lack of tactile feedback kills your words per minute.
Also, can we say horribly expensive. Touch screens may have dropped in price but keyboards are dirt cheap.
nonamo @ Jan 5th 2008 9:13PM
STOP POSTING RUMOURS
its not news!
shaun @ Jan 5th 2008 9:26PM
They're fun
Eugene @ Jan 5th 2008 10:23PM
If they dont post them, they have to live with all the millions of spam tips they receive...
I would of thought the "P.S. -You can stop tipping us on these now, kthx." kinda gave it away that they are only posting these to shut everyone up.
Aman @ Jan 5th 2008 9:22PM
wow its doesn;t get any worse does it?
Chris @ Jan 5th 2008 9:39PM
To bad they are fake. If they where real then Apple would of sent you a email to take them off the site.
Sebastian @ Jan 5th 2008 10:38PM
I say re-amp the macbook pro/ mac pro. I am gonna be going to college next year and want to purchase a 17in macbook pro but it hasn't been majorly updated in a long while and I don't want to spend 3k on something that will be outdated shortly after I purchase it.
So lets hope for a new version macbook pro. More ram, larger hard-drive, faster drive for ripping, and defiantly more GHZ. Like a 2.8 would be nice.
Oh an a revised iphone with 16 or 32GB and a expandable sd slot for school and media files. And 3G would be nice too. New software with video and iChat as well.
My wishes aren't great. They are do-able.
(01) @ Jan 5th 2008 10:51PM
Ahhh to dream...these look pretty damn tasty.
John Russell @ Jan 5th 2008 11:31PM
I call bull on the Mac Nano, as the point of the mini is not to be small. It's to be the(relatively) cheap, low-end, headless Mac. Having a flash hard drive would raise the price too much at this point for it to be viable.
HAHAHA @ Jan 6th 2008 12:42AM
It's G.R.E.A.T !
Shelbz @ Jan 6th 2008 1:24AM
I would love to see a "Mac" something priced around the $1,000 mark. C2D with a C2Q option up to 8GB Ram and user replaceable graphics options with PCI slots as well.
The iMac is just not configurable enough and a Mac Pro is too pricey, I love my MBP and my Mini as a media center but I am about to build a "hackintosh" for my desktop needs thanks to Apple's lack of options.
lmw @ Jan 6th 2008 9:44AM
Here is my rendering, to add to the masses...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lincolnwong/1427836451/
Adub @ Jan 6th 2008 1:18PM
What about an updated Airport Express? Faster network, ability to plug in an external hard drive, still be able to play iTunes over it? Sweet.
Zed @ Jan 6th 2008 1:21PM
I didnt follow macworld last year but if they do announce a new product do they usually release it right after macworld?
cause i am waiting to buy my imac but i dont know if it is worth it, i want them to come out with a new macbook pro.
Nate @ Jan 6th 2008 2:10PM
Ok, let me just say that though macrumors reported it, they did come out and say that they though that it was false, so they're being reasonable. Now the thing about the "leaked" script is there are a couple of problems. #1 Steve Jobs does not write out scripts. He does work with light and tech people on how he wants to do demos and such, but none of that stuff that they have in it. Another problem is that the scripts describe the product and when it's shipping. Why do you need to put that in a script if it's just for light and tech folks. All they need is Product, demo, product, demo.
About the tablet mac, there's a problem with that too. It seems whoever published this picture created a new UI for this supposed MacBook Touch which includes the dashboard being right above the simulated keyboard. That's not right at all. I also highly doubt that Apple would simulate a keyboard to look exactly like their Macbook keyboard. They might, however (if this was a real product, which I am highly doubtful about that) have the keyboard depicted in another, that was black, or they might even go the route of the iPhone and make it look like that keyboard.
Those are my thoughts.
jesus @ Jan 6th 2008 9:54PM
if they look remotely like this, itll be the most hilarious design ever
Carl - Thatblogsite.com @ Jan 7th 2008 10:45AM
I decided to show others about your post.
That looks cool.
dave @ Jan 12th 2008 7:03PM
almost definitely fake.
however, penryn mac pro with black aluminum case sounds amazing. only 2 things would stop me from buying it, if it were ever to become real: the price of a damn mac pro, and my AMD fanboyism. and i think i'd be able to get over the second one if i found a way over the first one.