New Mac Mini: This time it's video

Now this is more convincing! A physical thing, on reasonably high-quality video, rotated and fiddled with. And yet it doesn't quite banish my skepticism completely--there's a little of the absurd about it.

The story given by the poster is obviously bullshit, but that doesn't mean it's not real. It's not as if he's going to be dumb enough to just come out and say something like "Yeah, I'm a pro photographer who takes pictures for Apple's print ads" or what-have-you.

The idea that Apple's legendary secrecy's been cracked is delicious. Commenter TJS's psuedocode algorithm for what should happen next is excellent:

Select strValidity

Case: "Leaked Prototype"
Discover source
Fire source from job

Case: "Handmade Mockup"
Discover source
Give job

Video of 'Leaked' Next-Gen Mac Mini? [Macrumors] (Thanks, Moosedesign!)

[#1 posted by caldrax , February 20, 2009 6:01 PM]

well this proves to me that i have a good eye for whether something is photoshop work, at least.

The last few major mac releases have been "unrevolutionary" so I'm not certain why it's so surprising that the mini would get a very minor spec upgrade.

[#2 posted by killdeer , February 20, 2009 7:31 PM]

Not that I've used a Mac in 10 years. But the top area with the logo looks odd. Like the logo is fuzzy or something?

[#3 posted by obscurica , February 20, 2009 8:24 PM]

Looks like a cookie tin to me.

[#4 posted by nixiebunny , February 20, 2009 9:03 PM]

That's a lot of video frames to photoshop!

[#5 posted by XerxesQados , February 20, 2009 11:04 PM]

That's definitely an elaborate fake. Apple has already started advertising the real number of USB ports they're using.

[#6 posted by Joel Johnson , February 20, 2009 11:12 PM]

I will not be content until this is a meme showing Mac minis with 100 USB ports.

[#7 posted by alowishus , February 21, 2009 3:47 PM]

This whole thing just seems silly. If you manage to land a gig with Apple as a contractor, why in the hell would you risk it by leaking future product info? That's like the WORST thing you could do. Not saying this isn't real, but there must be more to the story.

[#8 posted by Clay , February 21, 2009 10:25 PM]

Allow me to suggest a mathematical model for these:

b = p*e

Where b represents believability, p represents plausibility of what is depicted, and e represents the likely effort it would take to create the material.

We have pretty high values for both p and e here.

[#9 posted by dculberson , February 22, 2009 8:30 AM]

Yeah, if it had a teledildonics port on it then the p factor would be pretty low. But it looks pretty similar to the existing model..

[#10 posted by TJ S , February 22, 2009 2:44 PM]

@9:

Yeah, but that's the wonderful thing about USB. This thing has 5 teledildonics ports on it!