Dreadful MacBook Pro Rumor Photo Does The Rounds

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大改款 MacBook Pro 即將登場… ?! [Apple.tw via MacRumors]

1. [scaught]

   I like this one because it’s particularly vague. Once a new or even revised macbook hits, there will be cries of “IT WAS REAL!!”

2. [claud9999]

   If we ignore it, perhaps it will go away?

3. [Clay]

   I see no reason to doubt that this is, in fact, a real production sample from China.

   I also see no reason to expect, given the context, that the manufacturer has any connection at all with Apple.

4. [Anonymous]

   The apple logo is rotated 90 degrees from what you would see on a notebook. This appears to have a portrait orientation, like an iphone, tablet/slate, newton, etc.

5. [arkizzle]

   #4.. no it isn’t.

6. [Merkin]

   Pardon my ignorance or apparent blindness, but what’s the difference between this and the current design? What am I supposed to be looking at?

7. [Justin Ried]

   This is the first time I’ve ever actually visited a site using the .pro top-level domain. I remember hearing about it years back, but never realized that ICANN approved it and rolled it out…

8. [Secret_Life_of_Plants]

   I have had Macs / Apple computers for 18 years, but I really cannot make heads or tails of what I am looking at here. I cannot believe this is a real product from Apple.

   Did this object fall off a roof? Why are there worm holes in that Apple? Does it fold up or is that the abdomen and thorax of some larger segmented thing? Is that a black leather 80s sofa in the background? Who framed/crop this awfully ambiguous picture? Is this a hoax e.g. “Does the rounds”? Hmm.

9. [Anonymous]

   #6 has it right. What, exactly do we think we are looking at?

10. [Shad Bolling]

    For more information on what this “possibly” is, see the MacRumors article (in the original post “[Apple.tw via MacRumors]“).

11. [Neuron]

    Dreadful MacBook Pro Rumor Photo Does The Rounds

    I can’t figure out which word it is that “dreadful” is modifying.

    Oh wait, it’s “photo”.

12. [arkizzle]

    It’s showing (real or not) the empty top and bottom shells of a MBP, laid out flat, not a complete product.

    The holes in the apple look like standard attachment holes where, for instance, a secondary plastic apple logo might be attached to the shell.

    The bottom half of the casing is significantly shorter in length than a standard MBP, leading to the suggestion the there is a third part to the casing, eg. a full-width battery compartment lid.

    No opinion of it’s realness.