It was inevitable, Apple's got a bit of a new laptop design direction in the
MacBook Air, and nothing's going to stand in the way of the hordes of
MacBook Pro Photoshops to follow. This one here is from spicu, and we're afraid it leaves some proportionality "to the imagination," but it's as good we've got so far. Think you can do better? Submit yours to
contests at engadget dawt com with "MBP mockup" in the subject and we'll get a little gallery going.
Optimists have Apple launching an update in February, and while that rumor might be a tad sketchy at the moment, there's no better time than the present to make a bid for Photoshop greatness.
Optometrists think you shouldn't look at the computer screen so much. Oh, and there's nothing up for grabs for the best mockup, only pride.
posted Feb 8th 2008 12:32PM
What kind of loser wastes their time on photoshopping imaginary computers?
What kind of loser cares?
Apple fanbois everywhere
Oh RokkaMan ya got me there! Ouchie from the zing sting!
here here
It's actually "hear hear", not "here here". There there :D
"Ouchie from the zing sting!" I loled
@Ireland:
Where where?
@Josh:
Where?
Ireland, Obviously!
Ryan Block - "We're not Apple Fanboys. We just do photoshop contests so we can break our porn habbits... Who needs women, we have apples to play with!"
I'll eat my words the day they have a contest for the next Dell notebook series. :-)
@skullfighter
there will be a contest for the next dell laptop series when people actually give 2 s**ts and make photoshops of them. engadget writes about what the most people care about. google search "dell rumors" and "apple rumors" and note the difference in results. also, apparently you don't mind ryan block too much, you are on his site.
Skullfighter, people don't have photoshop contests about Dell laptops because nobody cares how Dell laptops look. They're cheap and functional, not pretty. People have Photoshop contests about Apple laptops because Apple is one of the only hardware companies that actually imbues their products with a real sense of style and aesthetics, so people take an interest in what their next products will look like.
Whoa boys. Perhaps I should have worn a cup to this posting. I said nothing against the Apple, their products or commercial ethics. I made a joke about the ojectivity of Engadget, that is all.
Oh, and Zak. Apple could make an iPod that didn't play music and you would still think it was the coolest thing.
the kind slightly more weird than the ones that READ about fake notebooks every day!
Mac users who really enjoy using their computers. They have spare time due in part to the ease of use the Mac experience brings which enables them to get their "work" done faster.
hair hair?
I'd think they'd dump the full DVI port and put the new micro-DVI in, but include the adapter in the box...
I don't think the micro DVI does dual-link.
... but I would like to see HDMI.
Nah, why waste opportunity to charge $19.99 extra?
You'd also think they'd drop the latch button and go to a magnet like the other MacBooks.
Yes, and nor will the new MacBook Pros have a flat bottom anymore. The MacBook Air demonstrates to me Apple has finally realized that the Powerbook G4 and MacBook Pro's rectangular design makes it a pain in the ass to pick up off the table.
I like the latch :(
I don't hate the latch, but mine turned black and I've had problems with it latching and the switch. The magnetic just seems like it is simpler and less troublesome.
Call me crazy, but I'd like to see the optical drive disappear from inside Apple's notebooks, replaced by the external SuperDrive that the MacBook Air is capable of using. Use the extra space inside the MacBook and MacBook Pro for larger batteries.
Adam you so crazy!
I think I wanna have yo baby.
I wouldn't be surprised if thats what apple will start doing. Test it on the MBA, see how it was accepted, if there weren't too many complaints, start taking it out of the other MBs. With flash storage as high and cheap as it is, is there really a need for a CD drive, other than restoring the OS. I mean, you can dump installers onto your disk, and they will work fine most of the time.
PS, You're crazy!
True but I think the number 1 use of a laptop isnt computing or even browsing the internet. I think its watching DVDs.
I doubt watching DVDs is the number 1 use for notebooks, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is high up on the list.
However, you do need to be cognizant of where the media market is going. Personally, I see digital downloads replacing physical media such as DVD. Multi-terabyte hard-drives will soon replace cumbersome hard-copy video collections (just as the multi-gigabyte hard drive has replaced hard-copy audio collections). I foresee the current format war driving this trend as well. How long will it take for HD/Blu-Ray to become obsolete? DVD certainly didn't last long...
A simple codec is much easier and cheaper to install than buying new hardware that may not be compatible with (or even made for) your computer. My iBook isn't that old, but it has no hopes of playing Blu-Ray or HD. It's only a matter of time before consumers wise-up and realize that they can prolong the usefulness of a product through digital media.
I do agree, I've got a DVD drive in my desktop just like everyone else but I rarely use it. I had to burn a DVD for a teacher yesterday so I open it up and lo and behold my Halo 2 Vista disk is in there and I had installed and uninstalled that like a month ago - you do need to have one around still, it's not good to rely on Remote Disk, but I don't see why it has to be integrated into the notebook itself anymore. Rather have the space devoted to a bigger battery, really - any movies I watch are ripped to the hard drive.
Watching DVDs as the number one use of laptops? If that is in the top 5 uses, I would be very shocked. Not that I think getting rid of the DVD drive in the MBP is a good idea like adam, it's just that most of the people I know with laptops also have TVs, which they use for their DVD watching.
While I agree with many of the points raised here, I would like to add that this is a tech forum. We the people of Engadget may have loads of videos ripped to our hard drives, but my parents wouldn't even know how watch those files if they required any more than a double click.
A lot of people also use their DVD drives to burns backups for long term storage. Who buys an 8GB flash stick for $80 bucks, puts some files for backup on it and then stores it on a shelf for safekeeping? I do know people who burn an 8GB DVD and do exactly that. IMHO, optical drives (or the equivilant) won't go away until there is another long term storage solution. (and online file backup doesn't count. Too unreliable)
@ Skullfighter -
No one is calling for the demise of the optical drive as we know it, only that it be moved external of the notebook. The parents you referenced can still insert a DVD into an external drive; backups can still be made. Furthermore, if the "parents" cannot handle anything more complicated than double clicking, I'm sure upgrading an internal optical drive would be forbidden territory. Upgrading an external drive is as easy as swapping a USB cable.
Do you regularly backup 8 GB while on the road? The real question is, would you be willing to plug in a single USB/Firewire cable in exchange for significantly longer battery life or perhaps higher performance?
@ Adam
Well, that is a good point. Perhaps make it optional...
I am with you about using the space for battery or better performance.
I expect it'll have a keyboard similar to the Air. I hope it will be back-lit.
Of course it will be backlit. The keyboard on the current MBP already is.
If sanity prevails, it won't have that crap-board.
I'm hoping it wont be the ugly black chicklet keyboard. I really like the older Powerbook style silver backlit keyboard.
Other then the speakers I think the original 500MHz Titanium powerbook looks better then the MBP aesthetically. Loved the contrast in colors. The new keyboards feels to plasticy
Also loved how the keyboard panel came off to reveal the RAM *drool*
Do your research the the macbook pro already has a backlist ketboard and i really don't think they will get rid of it.
I know the current one is back-lit. I'm hoping that if they change the keyboard, they'll keep it back-lit!
The new one will have, get this, 2 count them 2 USB ports woooo hoooo! jk
Come on we all know you're not kidding :-p
Being a lover of the TiBook, and an absolute hater of the current PowerBook/MacBook Pro design, I could totally go for something like that.
the new MBPs will be like 15 and 17 inch versions of the MBA. except with a free superdrive attachment, and a free superport attachment (an array of usb, firewire, esata, etc ports). both of these will have wifi built in, though, so you dont even connect it directly to your computer, you just make sure they are on the same network.
why would you want to link a high speed interface (sata, fw, etc) over a (relatively) slower medium (wifi, even if it is n.)
some people on engadget just dont understand sarcasm...
I know, right? That initial post was filled to the brim with sarcasm. It was so sarcastic that it ventured into the 4th dimension and created a rift in the time-space-serious-sarcastic continuum known as a sar-chasm.
P.S. Nothing in the original post points to sarcasm. I really thought you were being serious. Some people on Engadget really don't understand sarcasm. Right, Daniel?
P.P.S. "Sarcasm" and its variants has appear seven times in this post. The correct term, in fact, is "verbal irony," since the original post's language contained a tone neither biting or hurtful.
Sar-chasm FTW!
i feel that this mac will be the first to have a Right mouse button. It will be revolutionary.... apple will sell millions!!
If you put 2 fingers on the trackpad and click, it registers a right click. They've been doing this since 2004.
yea....but I would like to put my one finger on the right click button...i totally dont care for multi touch.....
Plug in any 2 button mouse, open the Keyboard & Mouse pane in System Preferences and assign "Secondary Button" to the right mouse button. They added that in 2004.
whats so hard with putting 2 mouse buttons on the laptop? thats all im saying....i dont want to plug in a mouse. I dont want to use 2 fingers. I want to simply have 2 buttons under the trackpad instead of a 1 huge button.
Having one button makes it incredibly hard to press the wrong button
maybe Apple are trying to please the lefties by keeping it one button for all
The magnetic latch on the MBA makes it difficult to open due to the lid & main body being flush...back to the drawing board...
dont you think a macbook update is more likely?
since the Macbook was updated 100 days ago and the Macbook Pro was updated 249 days ago, I'd find it highly unlikely that the Macbook would get an update first.
fair call, but the macbooks are the only thing to be white or black.. everything else is anodized aluminum
In order to make it as thin as possible it will have no keyboard, monitor, battery or CPU.
Macbook Invisa?
there is no way in hell they are going to make it rival the Air in terms of thickness.
expect it to be a similar thickness, maybe slightly re-designed.
it looks like a Dell
The MBP needs to be a portable professional notebook. It can't have all kinds of external parts like the air. Everything needs to be encased in one place for professionals. The MacBook will lose an optical drive long before the MBP will and it's not going to happen anytime soon.
Imagine trying to install Final Cut studio without an optical drive even if it had the network installer like the Air. It would be a pain in the ass and take more forever than it already does.
I definitely think the MBP needs a 256MB video card standard with the option for a 512. No more 128's. My 4 year old powerbook has a 128MB video card.
isnt that slot on the front right side of the MBP supposed to be an optical drive?
It is but some people were suggesting to get rid of it and I was arguing for keeping the drive. Guess I was a bit vague.
Best thing to list the model of graphics card when referring to them. A 6800 Ultra 512mb would get it's ass kicked by an 8800GT 256mb for example
Hey PINE, have you met ELM???
Email the old-skool way :-)
It's the verb
I must have missed that comment. Sorry.
Too bad Apple would never sell Final Cut Pro on a flash thumbdrive.
:-O
> and take more forever than it already does.
Can I just say that I found this particular statement hilarious?
ha.
All I know is I ordered a 15" MBP on Monday (2.6Ghz, 250 GB drive, 2 GB RAM), and its shipment has been delayed until at least Monday the 11th, with no reason given. I'm praying they do an update and I get the updated one.
Okay, not so much praying, more like hoping.
That is really interesting...
You are a bit silly for ordering a MBP when everyone knows the update is coming out in short order.
RyanTV:"You are a bit silly for ordering a MBP when everyone knows the update is coming out in short order."
My ADC hardware discount expired on the sixth, so I couldn't wait much longer.
one cool thing would be a docking station port or something cooler that that.
like a magnetic one.. touchscreen... and i think too that they will build in a smaller dvi plug...
Looks hawt...
but what would it be called?
Macbook Pro Air?
People might get a bit confused and think you're calling it "Macbook Prayer"... although contacting God would be a bonus for Christians who wanted to buy a Mac... "Just open up iChat and you can talk to God".
Welp, it's a good thing that it's not called that.
Personally I'm thinking it would be called the MacBook Portfolio, and would ship with an artist's portfolio to carry it around in...since looking at the size of the ports on that thing, it's only slightly slimmer than the current MacBook Pro, and it's got to be at least 30 inches across, quite possibly 40 inches across, in order to get that proportionality.
I've got a lovely picture in my head of an artist-type opening up their portfolio, and instead of pulling out some sample paintings they've done, they pull out a 40-inch laptop, flip it open, and set it down on their table in the university cafeteria, leaving no room at table for even their own lunch.
It'd be *almost* as useful as a MacBook Air, minus the portability!
(written on a two-day-old reasonably-sized MacBook)
"I've got a lovely picture in my head of an artist-type opening up their portfolio, and instead of pulling out some sample paintings they've done, they pull out a 40-inch laptop, flip it open, and set it down on their table in the university cafeteria, leaving no room at table for even their own lunch."
I used to do something like that at a Chicago cafe back in 1994, except with a NeXT pizzabox workstation and a 17" CRT monitor. The cafe owner let me keep it in the basement. After the computer was set up I only had room for the keyboard, mouse, and a coffee mug.
I just want:
17" Glossy WUXGA 1920x1200 LED-backlit screen
Intel Core 2 Duo "Penryn" T9500
4.0GB of DDR2-800
802.11n WiFi
Express Port
64Gb SATA-3G SSD (for a non-obscene price)
Multi-tough pad
Oh and black brushed aluminum instead of Apple Silver.
@MadMike
...Multi-Tough pad, the Chuck Norris of trackpads - booyah!
Wow...64GB SSD? You're weird. I'd much rather prefer more disk space over faster access. I can barely deal with the 120 GB that came with my current MacBook Pro.
Also, glossy screen? Nasty. Matte 4 life
@ John
I used to agree with that (SSD vs. HDD) until my notebook no longer became my primary computer - I do prefer the better battery life and speed. Space can go to hell - I don't want a multimedia machine, I want a work machine. I can fit all my productivity apps and work files on there, and if I have a few gigs left, maybe I have a small music folder that I regularly refresh from my main music collection on my main computer, like my iPod.
Why doesn't apple just dump the entire idea of optical disks for installation and allow direct downloads of the .dmg files from either apple.com or the itunes store? They should get licensing agreements with all of their major software designers to allow for digital resale of their products. I have a Macbook myself, but a program like this would be much easier for me. In college, it can be a pain to have to either go find an apple store to but software or order it online and wait for shipping. I wish I could just download Office '08 (legally) or any other program instead of needing to buy an actual disk somewhere.
I love your idea... we're going there, the Mac Book Air demostrates that, the iTunes Store can be a sale channel for developers...
Troubleshooting. You need to boot off the disc to run the hardware tests. Interestingly, the Air has that functionality built into some hard storage somewhere in there, so you can actually boot and use the hardware tests without a system disc. If they spread that functionality around to the other models then we probably wouldn't need an optical drive any more, assuming it would let you run disk utility from the internal boot partition so you could format the HD (or SSD) and install the OS from an image across the network.
More like MacBook ERROR... LOL? Am I right???
no?
More like, Worst comment EVER! Eh? Am I right?
Maybe if you apple guys are lucky you might finally get a media card reader! I still chuckle every time one of the Mac fanbois here in the office put their tails between their legs long enough to walk over and ask me to pull a picture off of their flash card and email it to them.
Why don't they just buy a media card reader? Not all PCs have them built in either.
You buy a laptop to be portable. The more external components you add the less portable it is. I can grab my XPS 1210 and be out the door and I need nothing else. I'm not saying that every PC has one, what I am saying is that you can get a media card reader in almost every laptop... but not a Mac book.
I guess they've never heard of a USB cable. I'll show them later.
Macs can't use card readers? That'll be a shock when I get home and tell my card reader it doesn't work any more because some tool on Engadget told me I had to use a PC instead.
@Zak
You are a retard.
YOU DO NOT HAVE A BUILT IN CARD READER IN YOUR MAC BOOK. I did not say card readers don't work with them. Learn to read.
Well, I guess putting a card reader is so useful since you only have to choose between compact flash, memory stick, multimedia card, smart media, secure digital etc. There is no standard. It will NEVER replace the USB stick, or the USB cable to connect, my built-to-order PC, my friend's Sony and my other friend's Toshiba laptop, or, well, my iMac, all can't read my Canon's CF.
Maybe they should all stick to a standard like video cameras, all write in small DVDs or an HHD.
USB!
alex is a tard. They have card readers built into laptops that support multiple formats. Its not a problem so shut up
Let me get home first guys. Then I will boot me up some Photoshop and I will shoop the hell out the MBP. You won't even be able to tell it's a shoop from some of the pixels and having seen quite a few shoops in your time ;)
But uhh..yeah. I hope Apple really does release a new MBP. Badly. I want, nay I need one within the next few months. I plan on starting up my own video production company, and I really don't want to be using Windows to produce my stuff with.