Screen Grabs: Ugly Betty meets mutant laptop

There are so many inconsistencies with this screen grab from last night's Ugly Betty episode that it's hard to know where to begin. In fact, we won't. We'll leave it to you to identify each of the bastardized components cobbled together in this Frankenbook. Answers after the break.

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[TheAdamKramer Posted Feb 27th 2009 1:38PM]

i don't get the "mirrored image" thing?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 27th 2009 1:54PM]

how about Ugly Betty is on ABC, which is owned by Disney, which is (largely) owned by a certain Steven P Jobs. Why this screen shot is so mucked up is beyond me.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 27th 2009 2:51PM]

The icons are not in a straight line. >.

[listonr12 Posted Feb 27th 2009 3:23PM]

I hate it when commercials, shows, and movies have fake UI's. It's sooooo annoying.

[justinr Posted Feb 27th 2009 7:35PM]

Steve Jobs is the largest shareholder of The Walt Disney Company... Ugly Betty is an ABC show... She's taking her photo with PhotoBooth on an Apple iBook (remember those?) hooked up to an Apple iSight camera. Oddly enough, it even has the iPhone "Nemo" desktop, which was featured on all of the original iPhone ads... But while it should all be running Mac OS X, it looks like Windows XP... Someone's going to get seriously fired by Jobs himself.

[breaklaw Posted Feb 27th 2009 3:36PM]

The first problem is: You're watching Ugly Betty

Where's the big white arrow pointing to that?

[LegoGuy23 Posted Feb 27th 2009 5:19PM]

If they had an AV team capable of superimposing an image onto the screen of the um, computer, then why why wouldn't they have saved the trouble and used screen capture software to record what was actually on the computer's screen.

[serialtoon Posted Feb 27th 2009 5:44PM]

Its as Frankenstein as Ugly Betty is..

[Seven Posted Feb 27th 2009 5:54PM]

lol TV PG LAME. :P

[Evanrude Posted Feb 27th 2009 6:07PM]

Call me crazy, I love the show *shrug*.

Anywho. One thing I've been noticing for months was that the Apples' weren't "Apple".

At least, they replaced the Apple logo with something else...

I thought I was the only one that noticed!

Anyway, here is a screen capture of Betty using their "Mac" in Daniel's office. Notice the new logo? It's on all of their computers.

http://www.pumpkintechnologies.com/Betty/UglyBetty.jpg

[HowitzerAl Posted Feb 27th 2009 6:09PM]

So it's a G4 iBook with a separate iSight. I have both of those and that's a reasonable setup. It looks strange to anyone with a newer laptop with the iSight built in, but so what?
Now the software, I don't know. Could just be a video played back full screen, but I bet there are more elegant solutions out there.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 28th 2009 8:57PM]

Busted, I hope someone loses their job over this. This is a serious mistake. We can only hope that no one was watching Ugly Betty this week. By the way... my computer defines who I am as a person, because corporations deserve the more loyalty than I would give to all my friends if I had any. ROFLMAC WOOOOOOOOOO

[fuckoff Posted Feb 28th 2009 5:40AM]

Sorry, no, the 12" PB has no space between keyboard and side(left/right) and is overall metallic colored. Also a PB has the Powerplug on the left side, only the consumer machines had the plug on the right.

[SkonOfVulcan Posted Feb 28th 2009 5:42AM]

Who cares about that silly OS mashup? I've never watched the show but I am curious, why do they call her 'Ugly Betty' when she's so hot?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 2nd 2009 6:43PM]

Yeah, I dont know why tv shows always do this. Is it because if they want to have a mac in the show that they have to have permission from apple or what?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 1st 2009 8:52AM]

The My Computer and recycle bin are vista Icons

[samness Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:46PM]

i just realised
maybe the icons arnt straight, so they kinda look like the dock?

[samness Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:47PM]

maybe the icons arnt straight, so they look like the dock is os x ?