Comments on: Apple's new MacBooks: Spy photos from Taiwan

By: Mark, Atlanta, Georgia

Mark, Atlanta, Georgia — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:06:59 +0000

You all are using Babelfish to translate Chinese?! I thought this was a professional business publication. No one there speaks Mandarin when a large portion of U.S. Trade is being conducted with China?!

ex ped: FORTUNE magazine is indeed a professional business publication, which for all I know employs dozens of Mandarin-speaking reporters and writers. What you are reading is a blog, produced on a shoestring by this poor writer who has only some French, a little Latin, and smattering of Spanish and Italian.

By: TEEBEE Sydney

TEEBEE Sydney — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:50:50 +0000

Re: OMG

I don't think it looks like the current Macbook painted. Look at the port configurations: headphones, digital, firewire 800 maybe (?), 2 x USB, mini-vga, ethernet… it's markedly different from the current macbook, which I'm typing this on… No Firewire 400 after USBs!

By: Celia, Chicago, IL

Celia, Chicago, IL — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:00:53 +0000

I thought the Chinese characters meant, "Beware of hitting the Mahjong tables too hard after work".

By: Chaz, SF, CA

Chaz, SF, CA — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:03:54 +0000

These photos are real. If you understand machining of metals, then you can tell the the machine you have to have to create edge finishes of that quality, plus we know the current macbook pros are not made that way. Only a really sophisticated high end machine operation could perform these functions. And no one would have the time and machines to perform a one off item.

This is exciting, and will lead to a whole new revolution of computers. These laptops are going "aerospace quality" . That is really cool feat.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:24:29 +0000

磚塊 means brick, not tile. The translation is "Be careful after work, don't get hit by a brick (or bricks).

By: Ralph Conrad, Petersburg, TN

Ralph Conrad, Petersburg, TN — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:05:35 +0000

These photos are totally bogus! Look at the middle photo. It was taken in someones living room for petes sake! There is a pair of sneakers in the corner. If the photo was real the background would be in a manufacturing facility.

By: Dan, Willowbrook IL

Dan, Willowbrook IL — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:57:46 +0000

The space is wider – as in the probable difference between the 15" and 17" models?

By: JP, Naples Florida

JP, Naples Florida — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:51:20 +0000

Babelfish is hilarious; a translation application sure to start a war someday!

By: Martin - Sioux Falls, SD

Martin - Sioux Falls, SD — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:45:25 +0000

Wow, photos that might be fake of a shell for a laptop. That's good news folks!

By: ASP, LV, NV

ASP, LV, NV — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:37:12 +0000

Note that although these images are similar in several respects to the image at right, posted earlier in the week by Engadget, they are clearly from different machines (or different Photoshop sessions). For example, the space between the keyboard holes and the outer edge of the computer in this image is wider than in the images above.

The reason that the case in single lower right image is wider than the 3 in the set is probably because the different LCD size. Based on my Apple laptops, the 3 in the set matches the keyboard width on the MacBook which has a 13" screen while the one in the single image matches the 15" MacBook Pro.