The Same Enclosure! But Then How Will Everyone Know I Paid More?

September 25, 2008 at 10:43 am PT

If it should arrive at market on or before mid-October, Apple’s anticipated MacBook Pro revision (pictured above and below in a photo allegedly leaked to French tech pub NowhereElse) will allegedly share the same aluminum enclosure as the next-gen MacBook. It will also allegedly lack FireWire 400 and 28-pin DVI-I ports, which have been removed to reduce the machine’s footprint. That’s the latest grist to be fed into the Apple (AAPL) rumor mill, anyway.

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http://allthingsd.com/ Michael Long

Dump the internal DVD drive and go external as they did with the Air. Use the extra internal space for an eight-hour swappable battery.

Add an external “docking port” connector, and don’t require the user to be an engineer to swap hard drives.

Do all of that and I’ll be there on day one…
Rob Menke

The reflection on the trackpad shows the dock, yet the actual screen does not show the dock.

My money is on “fake.”
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/ Charles Miller

Short answer, no it isn’t.

The rumour being “confirmed” here is that the trackpad of the new Mac laptops will be an iPhone-like multi-touch display surface. Hence the photo shows the dock appearing in the touchpad: presumably some kind of mouse gesture allows you to switch apps.

Here’s an experiment: take an iPhone, turn it on, and hold it at that angle. Can you see anything remotely discernable on the screen?

Also missing is the magnetic latch that is standard on all MacBook Pros. The shot above is just a MacBook Air photoshopped thick enough to add a DVD slot.
http://allthingsd.com/ Michael Long

“Also missing is the magnetic latch that is standard on all MacBook Pros.”

They’ve been in the process of dumping that for years, first in the MacBook, then in the Air. I expect all of those nasty looking slots, latches, and buttons to disappear in the very near future.