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MacBook Touch Mockup: Is This Apple's Top-Secret Laptop?

popularmechanics.com — The Apple rumor mill is at it again, with reports surfacing this week that Steve Jobs and Co. are working on a touchscreen laptop to unveil as soon as the end of 2008. Good thing Glenn Derene dreamed up his own at the beginning of this year. Here's a fresh look at our would-be MacBook Touch.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 26, 2008

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  • SystemError, on 07/25/2008, -1/+67this is so old..pre the macbook air
  • techblogLAT, on 07/25/2008, -2/+65"Is this Apple's top-secret laptop."

    No, it's not. It's a silly mockup by some random guy. Who would want all these transformer pieces to the laptop. Imagine losing your keyboard attachment, or your optical drive attachment.
  • electriched, on 07/25/2008, -0/+45Buried for being a 2 line update to a 6 month old article.
  • digitalpencil, on 07/25/2008, -1/+36god, not this thing again..
  • YodaJones, on 07/26/2008, -0/+33I hope not. That is dumb.
  • dpowre, on 07/26/2008, -1/+17no no no no no no!!
  • SolituSneiku, on 07/26/2008, -1/+13do not want
  • starscream45, on 07/26/2008, -1/+12$100 says this thing pops up a year from now when we are STILL speculating about a possible Mac tablet.
  • joshblufs, on 07/26/2008, -1/+11note to self... invest in screen cleaner.
    guessing it will be hard to wipe this on my pants like i do with my iphone.
  • frascellyboy273, on 07/26/2008, -0/+8yeah since popular mechanics is SOOOO known for their insider apple info...
  • MagikOvenMit, on 07/26/2008, -0/+7Answer: No, no it's not.
  • footfwd, on 07/26/2008, -1/+8That thing sucks, yea put the scroll pad on top of the keyboard... oh yea and i love when my screen looks like my nephew just used my computer.
  • brainnovate, on 07/25/2008, -5/+11I am not dissing Apple here cause I love my Mac, but I am more interested in the "New Area 51" article! That being said, the video of this thing looks bad ASS, ie. I want one YESTERDAY!
  • ZephyrNinety, on 07/26/2008, -2/+8You're a D-Bag just for submitting this.
  • zeeky, on 07/26/2008, -1/+7what a ***** mockup

    trackpad above the keyboard? LOL
  • SitPoMk, on 07/26/2008, -1/+6Lets pretend this isn't as old as the internet
    This seems way too complicated to be an apple product. There are too many things to do, too many buttons and levers to operate it to ever be an Apple design
  • hiptrigger, on 07/26/2008, -0/+5Apple would never make anything this clumsy - 3 pieces? Modular? No way. Look at Jony Ives' latest laptop patent application - LCD locks in place similar to normal lappie or can slide over QWERTY using side rails to create tablet-slab. No wobbly pivots, no jigsaw pieces, no smoking the "I made this up and I am selling this to a magazine" crack. I love PM, but you have to put this next their drawings of flying cars, jetpacks and such...
  • tacojohn, on 07/26/2008, -0/+4no.
  • an10ae, on 07/26/2008, -0/+4No, No it is not.

    That thing looks idiotic and it's old.
  • Wootstapler, on 07/26/2008, -0/+4"Published on: January 3, 2008 "

    /facepalm
  • freakstyle571, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3my thought was the same. Why would you ever put the touch pad above the keyboard... it leaves no where for you to rest your palm....

    FAIL
  • ReneRuizJ, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3I can see why this would pick up popularity now that Apple made the announcement about their new revolutionary product that no competitor could answer to.. but I'm not quite sure this is it.
  • alex7575, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3Welcome to Digg Blogs Beta
  • targetpro, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3there is zero chance Apple will be releasing anything like this soon
  • rdldr1, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3If Apple created anything remotely as stupid as that mock-up, Apple would be the laughingstock of the computer industry. Awful, and amateurish.
  • combatchuck, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3Not a ***** chance. I wouldn't even expect something that stupid from Sony.
  • KalebS, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3first off its way to clunky and disgusting for apple...2ndly..really??..come on.
  • SuperSunny, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3This sucks
  • Pliep, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3ridiculous mockup. Apple would never create producs that are that complex and useless.
  • inactive, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3random guy makes video mockup of a poorly designed modular computer. could this be the next product from apple?

    no, no it isn't.
  • jdh24, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3Too ugly
  • cadmiumpaint, on 07/26/2008, -0/+3besides the fact that its fake, it looks like it would be completely useless as a laptop.
  • handya, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2thats just supid
  • nickbarber, on 07/26/2008, -1/+3"It's January"
    No it isn't.
  • footfwd, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2This posting in no way deserved an essay.
  • starscream45, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2"I could have chosen" to read that but I didn't.
  • vdogg89, on 07/26/2008, -1/+3noone is going to read that
  • MacHarborGuy, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2or an iPhone that is twice the size....






    ...and a flux capacitor
  • WoollyMittens, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2This is uselessly clunky.
  • BluSkreenOfDeth, on 07/25/2008, -1/+3I wouldn't. The touchpad ABOVE the keyboard? How many buttons presses does it take to actually get the cursor to move while my wrist (or elbow, or forearm) is mashing the keyboard?

    Not to mention this was on Digg several months ago...

    Dugg anyway.
  • inactive, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2It's one of those form complaint letters. Input the company of your choice, and a random letter is generated. Might be funnier if it was 1/6th of the length.
  • NWFackler, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2I think that the designer in this case has forgotten that fact that Apple is a company who bases their designs on simplicity and practicality. Those are two things that this mock up is not!
  • spritom, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2New Area 51 article: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/ ...

    Old article on the New Area 51: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/militar ...

  • zdiggler, on 07/26/2008, -0/+2woah! Steve Job must be really sick!
  • kibbledbits, on 07/28/2008, -0/+1This is not news. I hate this sort of crap, people making up their own designs of what it might look like and now they're recycling the story. Besides this isn't simplistic enough for Apple, while this looks well designed it looks like something that would instead come from Sony.
  • flashback99, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1Apple would never make a laptop that is modular. Clearly this design came from a long time PC user.
  • gentooian, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1The day Apple designs a product with the trackpad ABOVE the keyboard is the day I stop buying Apple products.
  • themastersb, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1This video has been going around for a long, long time
  • PrometheusZero, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1OMG, THE NEW MACBOOK IS A JET!?
  • MacBookForMe, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1It would be great to work on real one for a moment, though..
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