Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Rumors, Apple
Yet Another Possibly Faked Apple Tablet Picture
As the minutes tick closer to Apple's Event and the mystery product(s) they will be releasing, the following
TUAW-reader-submitted picture is either one of two things:
1) a last-minute faked photo of the MacPad, an Apple Tablet. Made probably by photoshopping a booting MacBook Pro.
or
2) the real deal.
I'm not even going to speculate. I know what I want, but if wanting something made it so, there'd be a whole lot of ponies running around middle America.
1) a last-minute faked photo of the MacPad, an Apple Tablet. Made probably by photoshopping a booting MacBook Pro.
or
2) the real deal.
I'm not even going to speculate. I know what I want, but if wanting something made it so, there'd be a whole lot of ponies running around middle America.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Mikel said 12:24PM on 2-28-2006
Of course it's a fake. The Screen isn't even lined up in the center (you can SEE the poor photoshop rotating) , and the Apple logo shows obvious dithering.
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blue said 12:24PM on 2-28-2006
I think it's a fake because you don't see any reflection of the flash on the white table.
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Judson said 12:26PM on 2-28-2006
Well if engadget would hurry up and update we'd know by now ;)
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Josh said 12:26PM on 2-28-2006
It IS fake. You can see the bottom of the case/frame doesn't match with the sides. It is obvious someone did a hack job in Photoshop. Not to mention, just exacxtly where would the computer be in this lest than half inch thick "tablet"?
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Tucker said 12:29PM on 2-28-2006
Nobody is updating :( I dont think that there is a connection in the Town Hall.
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deevee said 12:29PM on 2-28-2006
fake fake
fake fake
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Microdot said 12:32PM on 2-28-2006
i personally like the drop shadow effect on all 4 sides. then again... maybe its a CONCAVE TABLET!!! NEW L33T H4RdW4R3!!!!
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Neil said 12:34PM on 2-28-2006
The event doesn't start for another 25 minutes.
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Chris said 12:36PM on 2-28-2006
Is it me or is Engadget the ONLY one posting about the event? No MacNN, Mac Daily News, Apple Insider, Think Secret, etc. Anyone find any others so we can cmd+r them like crazy?
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shrimp said 12:38PM on 2-28-2006
I saw this right above the iPod wikipedia article and I thought, "Oooo... mobile Wikipedia!"
They wouldn't call it "MacPad" sounds too much like a femmine product.
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Chris said 12:39PM on 2-28-2006
Oh, and Apple is the ONLY reason I have credit card debt... Yeah, they're doing a good job... Steve Jobs that is... In a way I want so many new things but I'll be tempted to buy them by selling some internal organs or something... :)
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shrimp said 12:40PM on 2-28-2006
Chris, go to iLounge.com
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David Kelly said 12:41PM on 2-28-2006
World of Apple looks like they're attempting coverage.
http://loop.worldofapple.com
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consumer_q said 12:41PM on 2-28-2006
Why would you want an iSight on a tablet.
"ooh...look...i can see up Fred's nose!"
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yoharryo said 12:43PM on 2-28-2006
shrimp, you got it. I though that straight away when I read MacPad..if that was the name someone would be soo fired..
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dave said 12:49PM on 2-28-2006
man with all this consumer driven wish list rumours you really gotta wonder whether anyone has actually thought about apple's actually business strategy... They have intel chips and the big system $$ are in acpturing a slice of the business market (I ref you to apples hot news site and marketing guff about lawyers switching... http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/gf/)
If i were SJ and I had just spent a bundle redisgning on an intel platform Id be going after my share of capturing corporates like lawyers etc.. which gets me wondering when a big launch of more corp focussed solutions might come out??? just wanted to stir the pot
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phi said 12:49PM on 2-28-2006
apple store is down! :)
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Mark said 12:54PM on 2-28-2006
Don't know if this is relevant or not, but when you click in the itms to buy an ipod that is closed right now as well...
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lou said 12:56PM on 2-28-2006
man i wish it were real i would buy it in a second. A SECOND. i want one so bad
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Eric said 2:37PM on 2-28-2006
If it were a real tablet and had an isight it would be on the top in portrait mode. just like motion computer's tablets. Nobody I know (at least in the medical field) uses a tablet in landscape mode. unless it is docked and even then they usually have it on an external display with a keyboard and mouse. I do an extensive amount of application development for the Tablet PC and have use almost all the different brands and model of tablets at some point. While I would love for apple to release one... due to the bad photoshop work on this photo and the obvious misplacement of the isight I can assure you this isn't it.
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