Whoops! Apple's gone and leaked its brand new aluminum MacBook and redesigned MacBook Pros to the interblogs. Yeah, it seems old Jobsy has really loosened the binds over in Cupertino -- he doesn't care what gets out these days. No, but seriously, some cats on the internet supposedly discovered a .Mac page which appears to display mockups (or actual product renderings) for a new line of laptops, as well as adverts for iTunes 8 and iPhones in the 32GB variety (for Australia, naturally). Of course, this is wild, crazy, unfounded speculation, and likely has no basis in reality at all. Then again, you never know... stranger things have happened. Steve, we await your takedown requests. See full pages for yourself in the gallery after the break.
Update: Looks like MacRumors got duped by its own forum members --
these are fan-made mockups. Oh well, at least we can dream.
[Thanks, al and sleuth]
posted Apr 17th 2008 1:31PM
One of these days I will own a macbook pro, (sigh) :(
Talk about ambition.
Exactly, just without the sigh and the sad smiley. It's people like you who are never going to own a macbook pro.
I don't think its ever been 'difficult' to afford an Apple product...its just sometimes they don't present enough perceived value in the eyes of some. But I never found them difficult to own.
You guys forgot the pics of the 3G iphone:
http://imgs.idnes.cz/mob_prakticky/A030625_RUDI_KROLLOP_MOTOROLA-DYNATAC__N.JPG
BTW, this is the original of that piss poor "Australia iPhone" photoshop. Notice that they did not even bother to re-add the reflections.
http://www.raymondpoort.nl/weblog/images/iphone_hello.jpg
You don't need to buy an overpriced, underpowered CrapBook.
"Update: Looks like MacRumors got duped by its own forum members -- these are fan-made mockups. Oh well, at least we can dream."
Exactly why Engadget shouldn't be trusting some site called "MacRumors". Obviously, my wild guess is that it's a fan site about Macs and other Apple products. Surprise, surprise.
Seriously, Engadget, I don't expect you to be the top professionals in tech, but why post up a story like this? Obviously we should note the fact that:
1. This is from MacRumors - not the most reliable site, and obviously very Apple-fan filled.
2. The photos themselves - Blue background, wasn't that OS X Tiger?
3. Apple rarely leaks anything - Apple has some thing where they like to keep users on their toes, and give them a surprise every now and then. I doubt they changed their minds for this.
So a useless article, showing useless fan-made artwork, and a probably embarrassed (or should be) reporter. I'm betting if mock-ups of other popular products came through on other fan sites, they wouldn't get a mention on Engadget.
I just don't have the need to fully justify a Macbook pro. My Vista laptop with a dual core Intel processor does just fine for using the internet to invest and research stocks. You will go broke trying to have the latest greatest technology but I would rather be frugal with my money. Please don't hate on me because I don't own a mac, you Apple fans should be happy that I am admitting to settle with a PC. Go ahead, keep buying a new Apple product every 6 months, my portfolio will thank you. How is that for ambition?
Apple DISCONTINUED the XServe Raid, which is pictured
fake.
http://store.apple.com/AppleStore/WebObjects/BizCustom?qprm=78313&node=home/shop_mac/family/xserve
www.apple.com/xserve
looks very discontinued to me.
The xServe RAID was discontinued, not the xServe. Pay attention. You thought to be proving yourself smart, but rather you made a fool of yourself.
On another note, I am surprised to see Engadget post this. Anybody could tell these are fake. Apple rarely recycles stuff to promote something new, as see with the iTunes 8 thing, that was used for the iPhone. And anybody with half a brain can see some bad photoshop work on that "Pure Beauty. Pure Power."
@ Seth
and you could have been helpful and nice about it all and said.. that the RAID was discontinued they are now going with the Promise VTrak RAID Solution.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?s=topSellers&fnode=home/shop_mac/mac_accessories/storage&nplm=TQ809LL/A&mco=OTkzMzg
And you tried to make yourself feel better by beating on a guy for a simple mistake, even though chances are he has little to no server knowledge at all.
Congrats to you. :P
Why would it have a Tiger wallpaper?
exactly !!
Unless they shrank the keyboard that ain't no 13" MacBook.
"Of course, this is wild, crazy, unfounded speculation, and likely has no basis in reality at all."
Then why post it? :X
When Toshiba actually announces ACTUAL updates to its entirely reasonable Qosmio and Dynabook laptops, Engadget can only muster disinterested "yawns" and "naps" - yet when it's something Mac-based, even when they know it's a load of old made-up bollocks, then it's EXCITING NEWS, Goddamit!
I agree! I love my Toshiba! Even with Vista. Seriously, I do.
Brian: You are crazier than me, then. My Toshiba was a hunk of junk. Way too big, way too heavy, the fan was louder than a jet engine taking off, wireless reception was crap... It was easily the worst laptop I've ever spent money on.
So much happier with the MacBook Pro now... I'd take a Lenovo too... Anything but Toshiba.
Joshua's summary misses one point that makes this a much more interesting situation:
The site had login information for a working iTunes account... that ended in @apple.com. So *someone* at apple had *something* to do with this, even if it's just a low-level employee who wouldn't actually have access to this stuff.
What that means for the photos/mockups etc. I don't know, but this is indeed a very strange find.
I'd actually ask, if you're so offended by this, why you took the time to click the link, scroll to the bottom of the page, and type your "comments". Seriously, why would you waste your time on that?
@ jollyllama
And if you're so offended by my rightful complaint, why waste time doing the same to my comment?
2nded. Where's the Leopard wallpaper?
The Tiger wallpaper and the Xserve makes this a total fake.
Apple doesn't write "the iPhone", because it treats it's products like actual names.
free advertising at its best
-C
I'm sure that Apple will reserve the 32GB iPhone for the next 3G version, give people a reason to switch over and part with more cash...
Just discount the 8GB iPhone in the US already Apple!
Engadget, perhaps the time has come to launch some form of un-official Apple weblog.... A site dedicated to covering every minute detail of every Apple rumor and product. The site could even cover Mac centric software and tips on how to better use your mac...
Just a thought
wait like their sister site tuaw?
Where were you guys when Engadget was making posts about the Playable Paper Super Mario? We could have really used your life saving sarcasm then, but you bastards just abandoned us!
The funny thing about it that TUAW is always late on the "news" I guarantee that this is not even on it yet as of when I write this.
To Fernando:
You would be correct, and they don't.....
Those macbooks look white. i thought apple discontinued all macbooks in white
No.
I was going to reply to Blue Sunshine there... but I don't reply to website spam posts.
Anyway... the MBP pic does it for me... looks like they just wrote over some other pic. If they were "official" in any sense of the word, I would hope they'd do them up properly.
This is all so fake - they have Tiger backgrounds, the iTunes announcement has the apple logo from last year's macworld, and the "Australia" is not written in Myriad Pro - Apple's signature typeface.
Thats the best they can do, the iphone picture could be faked by anyone.
damn, the shitty MB/MBA keyboard is coming to the pro, might as well get a dell then, stupid apple
nope, stupid you for falling for a hoax and getting pissed at Apple about.
Do these even need to be debunked?
"F-Pure Beauty, Pure Power"?
It's not a spam post, it's more of a "if you enjoy horrid attempts of humor such as above, go here".
Anyway, yeah they def. wrote directly over the Macbook Pro pic. At least if you're going to throw in a cheesy fake ad, go the extra mile and fix the blobs at the beginning and the end of text.
If Apple we're going to emulate the iMac design in one of the laptop lines it would only be logical if it we're the MacBook. Keep the consumer lines all matchy matchy. I call shenanigans.
I call FAKE, the MacBook Pro image is too badly photoshoped, the Al MacBook is strong, but not going to be in the same gray as pro products, they may even colour them to match nanos, think of who the target market is.
the iphone is a gas, we know it's getting 32GB, but words is the revsion has the phone lose some weight and possibly lose the chrome.
and! WTF, No app store! and still using MJB's album cover! that was old when the current one came out!
the itunes 8 or as it may cleaverly be referd to as itunes 08 ;) well thats just off the iphone announcment poster from last year!
Omg and glass screen on a MBP! yea, cos that will make it light!, you only get glas in an MBP when its got a multi touch screen - which jobs him self has stated is in devlopment when the redesinged iMac was launched.
Sor for the rand but god, soo fake!
LOL Yeah like Apple would ever use that f'ed up paste over on "pure beauty. pure power". Not to mention the bad kerning on "06.10.2008".
Man, those images are as fake as my love life!
The "F" is the supposed MacBook Pro image is a capital "P" from the original headline that this sloppy Photochopper didn't even take the time to remove. You can also see the original period on the right side of the image.
Why even post such amature work? Shame on you engadget.
Hmm... I feel like returning my 1 week old Macbook Air and wait for a new Macbook Pro... MBA is too underpowered.
will they ever come out with a 7inch or 8inch itouch???
the current itouch screen is way too small for browsing comfortably!
It's called a laptop!
This has got to be a fake. Even though that Apple logo on the iTunes 8 screenshot is the same one used for the site advertising the upcoming Russian iTunes store. I absolutely love the current design of the MBP and hope it isn't changed. Black keys would look terrible. Besides, it looks like they just took an image of a MBP off the Apple site made the keys black and called it a MacBook. The MacBook Pro screen looks like it was cut and pasted from an image of an iMac and copied onto a bigger MBP image.
"A new version of iTunes (7.1.23.4.22.22948.3) is available for download"
Argghhhhhhhhhh, make it stop!!!!!!!!!!!
I hear that is an important update ;) I'm waiting for Steve to tell me what to eat for lunch, but he better hurry because I'm going soon.
Lets not forget that Apple keeps all of their biggest upgrade secrets in crappy Photoshops on a single .Mac page. Gimme a break.
'Bus Found On Moon', '9/11 was all done with CGI', 'Elvis Works In My Local Walmart' - add these adverts to that pile of shit!
The new Apple styling makes me cringe.
Totally fake for one simple reason.
The page with various Apple Hardware is displaying an Xserve RAID which has been discontinued a few weeks ago...
Still no tablet? *yawn*
Where's the "Filed Under" for bullshit? Seriously this is more fake then a call girls orgasm's. If there is a 32Gig Iphone, where is the 64Gig Touch?
Aluminium MacBooks on the way...
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/04/17/apple_orders_aluminum_13_inch_macbook_shells_3g_iphone_chips.html
Thats not an F, its most of a P. like a click and drag gone wrong, or ms paint.
Aluminum is misspelled on the MacBook graphic.
This is either bogus or just sloppy work by Apple (or just work that's still in rough draft).
I vote bogus.
'Aluminium' is not a typo. It's spelled correctly. Well... at least in the UK it is :)
Fake or not hopefully they will do more than change the case and add multi-touch. I would love to see a 11" macbook slimed down and a weight in the 2-3lb with a blueray drive. I am partial to my black macbook, despite it showing every finger touch as a nice grease mark, the aluminum wouldn't cut it for me, but would be a nice replacement to the white. If this isn't fake I am looking forward to more hardware specs as that would be the only real reason I would buy a new one.
not yet Shipping!!! this one is a FAKE......guess what I'm writing this from????
Is't this old news?
i thought i heard about this elsewhere
Wow, the 32gb iPhone looks so different than the 8gb, I just might have to buy one, or at least take a picture for my wall.
That is fake , think a litle , it has mac os 10.4 tiger wallpaper , al new mac's have leopard wallpapers
Another epic rumor post by Engadget. Waste of space, waste of time, and now I'm adding to it.
Hopefully they can stay away from Fan Art as a source of gadget news. But I doubt it.
Totally fake. Apple Marketing will unveil iPhone in the most obvious way for Oz:
Australia: Say G'Day to iPhone
None of this "Hello" stuff. Way too Yank for the Lucky Country...
Australians (infact most of the world) write dd/mm/yy not mm/dd/yy
Fake with a capital F.
or else Apple's agency needs to be sacked... :D
3G iPhone leakage photos. http://www.iphonesavior.com/black-3g-iphone-2-leaked-photo.html
I can't say anything nice.
pictures look excatally like the contest that Engadget had a few weeks ago!
As fake as it is....it doesn't seem too far from what I'm expecting to happen
They are fake. Why would Apple promote these with Tiger rather than Leopard? Compare them to how the real product photos at apple.com look.
This post has to win the Engadget Darwin Awards. Or at least be in the top 3.
Old material, horrible amateuristic fakes, you can't put 1 and 1 together, throw it on a top 10 blog ... and you get paid for writing this kind of stuff ?!?!
Man, so many of us can do so much better.
Yes, by not blogging at all. _That's_ better than this one.
What's weird is that Apple legal requested for these pictures to be removed from MacRumors...
Nevermind, the whole cease and desist letter was a hoax, pictures are back up.
??do you think when the new one comes out, you will be saying you will wait till the second release because they will have all the bugs picked out...????
I know a bunch of people saying that about iPhone with 3G... someday they will put down the $$$$
Macrumors is a joke! EOM...
guys wtf!! no leopard wallpaper.. poor renderings and you STILL posted this?
Unless black or "carbon" is an option on the Macbook Pro, no thanks.
MS paint. Good one!
darn... i was all excited when i read:
"Update: Looks like MacRumors got duped by its own forum members -- these are fan-made mockups. Oh well, at least we can dream."
Wait and see
go to colorwares web site. under the "company" tab, it says "now in color" click that. it mentions a "special edition iphone" .... wat is that??? im confused... : / it apparently comming april 28th...
go to colorwares web site. under the "company" tab, it says "now in color" click that. it mentions a "special edition iphone" .... wat is that??? im confused... : / it apparently comming april 28th...