<![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> the trackpad could be a WACOM!

oooo. wouldn't that be cool to have a wacom-like thingy there.....=D

slingblade

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> oooh aluminium.

daaniel

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> @The Lab: Flawless? Uhm, what Appletini have you been drinking? Original iMac G5 30% failure rate. PBG4 Al screen probs. PBG4 Ti cracking. iBook recall. G4 Cube power supply and button problems. And I can go on. Expect all new releases to have some issues.

blargh

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> All I want from the touchpad is instant reactivity.
Coming from a crappy Acer laptop, the touchpad on current MacBooks is laggy at best. There's an annoying delay between what your fingers do and where the pointer goes. Not on my laptop. It's not like I need a MacBook, but this is what keeps me from even considering one. Come on Apple, the touchpad is the primary interaction device on a mouse-driven OS like OS X... it shouldn't be this hard to do...

betterdays

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> Ooh ooh - wild speculation/fantasy - What if the thouchpad becomes an iPhone-esque screen? Multi-touch, specific application programable? I'd love to pinchy zoom within Photoshop.

frogface

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> This image is a terrible Photoshop job... I do think there might be validity to this. BUT that "photo" is a really bad mock up so don't anyone start picking it to death. The "strange" trackpad MIGHT be a multitouch display. But I'm sure you figured that out..

Ciao

JAWSh

JAWSg4

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> slingblade, interesting point about the shiny white going away. don't forget the headphones, power adapters, and iPod/Phone docks.
On the article, interesting touch pad? Tablet? Multi-touch? Just a thought. I mean, iPhone was really, I think, their re-entrance into the tablet PC market. Just...give this hypothetical tablet a working keyboard. otherwise, you'll loose so many customers. Anyways, i'm sure that what ever apple rolls out next will make all (or most) diehard fanboys ditch the old model and trade up. will start working on saving a thousand bucks now.

jsimondsmalamud

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> @The Lab: One word:

Mooo.

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> @omg-ponies: Actually Apple products have been pretty flawless out of the gate. Even the Intel switch that should have been a clusterf+ck was fine. iPhone too.

The Lab

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> So I have to audition to be approved? Sounds fine to me.

Anyway, as I always wanted to say. If we look at the trend, Apple has just about wiped out it's "glossy white" products.

iMac - check
iPods - check
iPhone - check
MacBook Pros - check
Mac Pros - check
keyboards - check
apple tv - check
cinema LCDs - check

mmm...so what do we have here?

We have the precious macbooks, mac mini (if they aren't completely wiped out together) airport router thingy, and the mighty mouse. because el jobso is most likely insanely tired of glossy white, he's turning then entire companie's products into aluminum/metal finishes. which makes me a little upset, because i have a macbook sitting on my lap killing my spermcells that is less than one month old (one month tomorrow - oh and what a happy bday im gonna give it).

Yep. What you're hearing is most likely going to be aluminum macbooks. they're they only vital parts to the mighty bitten apple that haven't been transformed and reborn again.

damn. and just when i was getting into this whole "glossy white business too".

I have my

macbook - check
nintendo ds lite - check
white speakers (shaped like cube...aww so adorable) - check

want a wii - soon to be checked!

ahhh...apple keeps smiting us all...

slingblade

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"there's something strange about the touchpad."
OMG something strange. I'm so excited.

hanswurst0815

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> Thin makes no sense unless it is a truly driveless laptop. No hard drive - solid state only. No Superdrive. Who uses these drives anymore on a laptop? If true, expect the price to be closer to 2K. A nine or even eleven inch screen would be awesome. But, if Steve Jobes doesn't use it, it never gets produced.

Regards,
Roger Born
"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."

rogerborn

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> @ChopSue-Me: Falconfire is referring to the ribbon cable that the screen is attached to the logic board with (internally). Not the laptop power cord.

spaceman37

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> Hmm anyone anxious to see if the repeal of the nerd tax truly trickles down?

SeattleTed

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> Alice: Honey, hand me my MacBook.

Bob: Sure, Dear. GAWDAMNED!! MY FINGERS!! The fucking thing sliced off my FINGERS!!

Windhawk

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> @nocar:
Your ratio is backwards. It's 4:3, not 3:4

HTH, HAND

ConstyXIV

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> Still waiting to replace my 12 inch PowerBook G4.

At 10.8 x 8.6 x 1.18 inch, 4.6 lbs (aluminium) it's smaller and lighter than any of the current generation MacBook offerings.

The "classic" 3x4 screen format also works better for viewing web pages than the widescreen models.

nocar

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> @Falconfire: If that's a design flaw, they should fix it in the iteration rather than putting in a limitation.

@OMG-PONIES: no on said you had to click on anything, only reason I put it in there was a photo I actually took comparing my old 12" G4 with the current non-LED version of the MBP.

phi

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> @Falconfire: MacBooks have power cables attached to the side, not back.

ChopSue-Me

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> Linkage:

Slim Aluminum MacBooks Coming Soon from Apple
[9to5mac.com]

Tony C

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> @phi: Nah.

I think I'll skip the rantings on your blog. But thanks for the shameless self-promotion.

OMG! Ponies!

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> What? No shiny mockup from Jesus? =)

Bring it on!!!

Tony C

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> @phi: They dont let them tilt back that far because it eats into the cable powering them. That is a fundamental flaw on hundreds of PC and Mac laptops that do let you do that, eventually the cable wears out with 2-3 years of repeated use like that.

Falconfire

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> There is one thing that I can't stand about the current MB and MBP designs....The screen only tilts back 130 degrees or so. Unnacceptable when stretching out on the couch. For my full rant, see -> [observingtech.blogspot.com]

But seriously, if they can fix this and have the screen tilt back at least to what the old 12" powerbooks were doing, I'd trade my VAIO in a heartbeat.

phi

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> anything known about the realse date?

kidnamedmoe

]]> <![CDATA[Incoming Slim, Lighter Aluminum MacBook]]> Good. This means that in about a year, I can get a new MacBook after allowing the early adopter fanboys to discover all the bugs in the new features. Because all hardware nowadays ships in beta.

OMG! Ponies!

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