Comments on: New Apple notebook spotted, we told you so

By: el master peruano

el master peruano — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:18:52 +0000

por favor traduscanloo al español

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:25:13 +0000

Hey William, thanks for joining us two months after the fact. Great to have you.

By: william

william — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:14:51 +0000

its called tha macbook air.
http://www.apple.com/au/macbookair/ this is apple’s australia webpage

By: will

will — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:11:13 +0000

yes there is an isight, in the middle of the screen at the top u’ll see a tiny black square, that is it. and no its not a macbook touch its called a macbook air.
http://www.apple.com/au/macbookair/
this is apples australia website.
if this does not make people relise that it is real i donno what will

By: will

will — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:03:15 +0000

rofl its alredy out, but they’re bloody expencive its over $2000 (aus) and its worse than the macbook, only 80gb hardrive, 2gb ram (cant be upgraded), and dont forget the prosessor that is only 1.6 or 1.8 ghz

By:  Man

 Man — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:21:04 +0000

I met a lady on an airplane, who has friends that work for . They all have an MacBook Touch and says it will have a 9 by 10 inch touch screen. Along with a real keyboard that comes out of the actual MacBook Touch.

By: Daryl

Daryl — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:19:52 +0000

“most major pc/gadget/appliance manufacturers follow Apple’s lead in terms of product design these days”

Apple is one of the best in terms of product design, but you take the award for cluelessness with the that comment. You’ve insulted and discredited alot of people with a statement that amounts to saying that every Apple design is 100% original and they’ve never copied anything from anyone and most(!) manufacturers copy them. This is the idiocy that most of us gets unfairly pinned with because of people like you. Ugh.. I’m sorry, I’m just sick of reading this crap

By: M-RES

M-RES — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:45:31 +0000

Could be real. The shadows are correct (not a PS error, even if it IS a PS’d photo) for the light source. The keyboard/case/lack of iSight are indeed from the PBook G4 range, but that’s not unbelievable as this is most likely (if real) an earlier prototype. If Apple had been working on this wider touchpad for a sub notebook for some time then it stands to reason they’d have implemented it in whichever was their current range when this photo was taken, not in some machine-of-the-future which they hadn’t yet put into production. It makes more sense to use the existing tooling/case design for the prototypes until all of the hardware/software bugs have been ironed out and then build it into the current revision models when it’s ready for rollout.

Just because there’s only this one photo doesn’t mean to say it doesn’t exist. How many people knew about OS X for Intel machines being developed up to 5 years before Apple announced the switch to Intel processors!?

Multi-touch would be extremely useful for gestural control systems, working with images/video etc etc.

Also… for the obvious trollbait calling him/herself “Me” : ‘Why do every single products they released look like shit then?’ The obvious answer would be that most gadges/electronic appliances in production today look equally shit in your eyes. After all, most major pc/gadget/appliance manufacturers follow Apple’s lead in terms of product design these days. Anyone remember everything from kettles to steam irons going translucent blue? How about when all PC laptops were grey (because Apple’s were), then when Apple switched to black they all followed suit, then the same with aluminium, also with white… so your proposition is self-defeating.

By: notsobig

notsobig — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:40:30 +0000

I don’t know if it’s legit, but I’m typing this on a 12″ Dell and my hands are flying over the touchpad, barely resting on the edge of the case. I may have longer fingers than my wife (by a lot), but I believe most people would not touch the pad while typing.

Neverthelss, the only reason to make it that big would be a DS-esque touch display, which would be really cool. It existed on some laptops I was considering a couple years back (tosh?)

By: Paul (french)

Paul (french) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:02:09 +0000

There is no isight like said previously.

We can see the closing hook on the top of the screen, exactly at the same position than the powerbook G4 12 inches…

By: John

John — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:06:45 +0000

With MacWorld so close, people will post up any BS to get hits. Good job, mission accomplished here.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:35:33 +0000

There is no iSight…. Fake…

By: mg

mg — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:01:05 +0000

total bs apple definitely would not be using the old design keypad.

By: Tinkered

Tinkered — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:40:34 +0000

Calling BS on JohnyD. The only reason you are having this problem is because of a 3rd party app being used to make the right-edge of the trackpad control scrolling.

By: secret squirrel

secret squirrel — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:30:39 +0000

Yep, it’s a fake. Fake image creators are so predictable! LOL!

By: Me

Me — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:08:30 +0000

>Apple is a design king, they would never release something that disgustingly ugly.

Why do every single products they released look like shit then?

By: Polonus

Polonus — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:37:27 +0000

Hmm… Docks.. are the same. ?

By: JohnyD

JohnyD — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:13:14 +0000

Actually, that’s not the case at all. I own a brand new macbook and when I type my wrists sometimes slide against the right-hand edge of the trackpad which I have configured to act as a vertical scroll. The effect is my document starts scrolling while I’m typing… so you are most definitly wrong.

By: JM

JM — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:45:18 +0000

I’m calling BS, as well.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:35:43 +0000

A headline like ‘we told you so’ followed by a first sentence that says you don’t know if it’s real or not is kinda duuuh. Can has less digg/techmeme bait kthxbye.