Is This the New MacBook?
October 3, 2008
Mac Soda commenter rui points out a promotional page on nVIDIA’s website that shows a modern looking laptop with the text “nVIDIA Optimizes the Notebook PC”, and asks the question, is this the new MacBook?We know nVIDIA’s new card is going to be the graphics card Apple uses in the new MacBooks, so the likelihood of them seeing the product is fairly high. Also, the laptop appears to be made of aluminum, with a 16:9 screen, and a glass trackpad. However, the chance of Apple allowing this to be posted is zero, so unless they are posting this without Apple’s knowledge, its not it.
What do you think? Is this the new MacBook?
October 3, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Two front loading optical drives on a Macbook…? hmmm, doesn’t sound plausible to me.
October 3, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I’d be pretty happy if it looked anything like that…..That new graphics chipset looks pretty sweet, way better than the onboard crap intel is pushing….
October 3, 2008 at 3:25 pm
its not a macbook. it has two mouse buttons under a trackpad.
October 3, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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October 3, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Ugly, UGLY… the points on the edges would poke at you and hurt, the total opposite of Apple’s curves. This is just a stupid headline to get hits.
October 3, 2008 at 6:14 pm
One of those “optical drives” could simply be a vent for cooling, but I agree it doesn’t look like a Mac.
However, what’s wrong with having a PC-style double button on the trackpad? Being forced to [ctrl]-click to get a right-click is one of the things that drives me to carry a mouse with my MacBook Pro. Oh and it’s not that stupid mighty mouse that you can’t rest your fingers on; a real mouse with a real second button.
October 3, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Why would anyone assume this is even a real product rather than an illustration of a somewhat cool but rather generic-looking notebook?
Not even going to go into all the visual details that prove this is not a MacBook of any flavor.
October 3, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Uh, I hope people know about the two finger click on the trackpads… Check out system preferences.
October 3, 2008 at 7:22 pm
You don’t have to control+Click on a MBP, two finger tap ftw… or lose if you don’t know about it.
October 3, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Yeah! Or just hold two fingers on the trackpad while you press the trackpad button, simple and easy!
I have been a PC user for many years, and have never found this to be a problem at all?
October 4, 2008 at 3:04 am
hello people,
I have been waiting for the mac book update since June. I was anticipating its release in June because of the rumors posted. However then it moved to august because the schools were about to open. Then it went to 9th september. The event went by and there are no signs of an update. macbooks have passed their average update cycle. It usually updates in an average duration of 192 days, however it has been 220 days since the last update. There have been rumors that the new macbook will release on october 14th, which seems unlikely because if they are incorporating nVIDIA chipsets(scheduled to release on 15th oct.) then even this speculation seems false. I have too long for this…can somebody please throw some light on this and tell me about it.
October 4, 2008 at 8:10 am
Well puneet, June was the iPhone stuff, or at least the build up to it, new MacBooks were not in the mix for that. September has traditionally been the iPod update rollouts, not to sure anyone thought seriously that macBooks would be rolled out during that announcement. The August deal? not real sure about that, I had never heard to much about anything then. People did think (or hoped) that there would be a late September announcement, this mid October deal is a little longer then people had expected.
Apple does have a track record of rolling out hardware that has not been released yet, so it is completely possible that the new chipset is in there and yet not released.
October 4, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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October 4, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Rather than the new Macbook, I hope this is the newest generation of laptops in general that is going to get rid of the many bugs and limitations of current laptops…
October 4, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Anyone notice the keyboard? It’s white. The Macbook Air keyboard is black, and Apple is rumored to be including black keyboard not white ones. Plus, the promo page says notebook PC, not mac, or just notebook.
New mac? I think not.
October 5, 2008 at 12:30 am
And right underneath the picture are the ugly PCs…
October 5, 2008 at 9:14 am
It may not be that the keyboard is white - it looks more aluminium than white. I don’t really mind about the MBP’s current aeshtetics - but the specs are what kills it for me (I still love the MBP though). I want a machine with the same specs as current windows laptops = killer machine
October 5, 2008 at 5:06 pm
No, it’s not. Keep all your wild theories about the image to yourself. If a notebook had 2 slot-loading drives it would be almost twice as thick (where would battery/hard drive and motherboard go?).
October 6, 2008 at 12:10 am
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October 6, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I agree with No, can´t be that slim with those drives.
October 6, 2008 at 1:18 pm
The power this laptop yields to create conversation…