Oh, say it aint so...

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What is the black scribble supposed to be?

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Blotting out the date and time, or something like that. Just to add that "authentic" feel to it. Hehe

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The fake has been made by a Dutch guy. The text in Photoshop is Dutch. He did a good job.

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That video was awesome!!! I'm going to go make my own right now!

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I'd say it's supposed to block out the date or something. I kinda hoped it was a fake cos I just got a 5g for christmas and I don't want it to be obsolete already

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I don't understand why the image produced in the video is different from the original image. Check out the details.

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Dan --- you are like three or four days too late on the revelation that the second picture was a "fake." As revealed in the comments to the post here by Scott -- someone acutally, like, read the blog post to which the picture was appended, and it revealed that it was not a "fake" but just a amateur mock-up done by the blogger, and he wasn't trying to fool anyone. Did Scott post a correction? Nope. So, you put up this "revelation." A little amateur for you guys, who are usually really good. By the way, where is your freakin review of the MB Pro already????!!!!

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And to make it all more interesting still, the mockup was done on a computer running a Dutch version of MacOS X (check the menubar). I'm surprised though that the translation widget actually worked...

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Crazy Dutch people making fake iPod's! Gotta love 'em! :p

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What would be cool is if this was actually what it was gonna look like but was in fact a hoax to put people off the scent. I hope it's not at all like this though.

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Jon -- how come every time someone makes a mistake around here, everyone takes it as a sign of malicious intent? I was just posting what I saw, I apologize for any error on TUAW's part.

And the MBP review is coming soon...my machine has some "problems" that I've been trying to work out with Apple, and I didn't want to put down anything official until I have a machine that reflects the true nature of the shipping models.

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Brilliant.

I'm also glad my 5g is still cool :)

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cheeky dutch fuckers!!

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Wow. that was a really great movie. I wanted it to be real, but I figured any pics of the next big thing from Apple would show the GUI, not a LCD test.

But now that this is fake, I'm hoping for something better than this on Tuesday.

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Too funny. When I first saw it, I though "ehh." Glad it turned out to be a fake.

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I think this video is a fake sent out by apple to throw all the rumor mills off. I think this is apple's way of having 'fun'.

shane

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Considering that the barcode is the product ID for OS X server and that the chinese characters look like a 2 year old wrote them, its pretty obvious that it's fake.

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#8, this is par for the course with TUAW. They post ridiculous stories without checking facts, then when they finally learn the facts (usually through a comment or by, you know, actually reading the links they post) they don't post a retraction and instead post more "news."

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For once, this fake never had me convinced. But it was awesome to watch the making of!!

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