Ron Schenone

‘Brick’ MacBook Pro Photo Leaked

Posted by on Oct 9, 2008 | 18 Comments

Over at Engadget they have what is supposed to be a leaked photo of Apple’s newest offering in laptop computer, called the ‘Brick’. Why the name the ‘Brick’?  According to the rumors floating around, Apple wants a laptop that has no screws or snap together parts. Rumor also has it that the ‘Brick’ will be one solid piece of alumium. Sweat.

The article also states:

Since we heard those ‘Brick’ rumors the other day, the mill has been all but silent… until now. It’s hard to tell exactly what we’re looking at here, but damned if this doesn’t look like some fancy new MacBook Pro carved out of a single piece of metal (except for those sides, so, there goes that theory). We’ll let you make your own decisions after giving this the once over, but if this is what Apple has in store for us, our curiosity is definitely piqued.

No one can take away from Apple their ability to innovate far beyond what any other computer company can come up with. The iPhone and other Apple stuff just keeps getting better and better. It is to bad the PC industry can not follow Apple’s lead and come up with more stylish PC’s. Just because you add colors to the line up, doesn’t make a box anything more than just a box.

Engadget source

  • http://twitter.com/cdemero Christopher Demero

    Regretted that i used it…

    • http://chrisdrinkut.wordpress.com/ Christopher Drinkut

      I signed up for this too, and now am re-thinking the choice. But, if we don’t use the go/plus.com/profilename link anywhere.. we should be cool, right?

  • http://www.lowgenius.net John Henry

    As I’m seeing a whole lot of “gee I wish I hadn’t done that” comments on G+ links to this article, I feel compelled to point out that the gplus.to shortener doesn’t request authorization to access your profile, or do anything else that might jeopardize your Google accounts. It’s just a database of URL redirects, like any other.

    Please me more careful with the scaremongering in the future.

    • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

      It’s not scaremongering. The possibility for an eventual redirect to a nefarious site is still very much a possibility.

      • http://profiles.google.com/rahul247rocks Rahul Ghosh

        yeah Chris is right. 301 redirect architechture can easily be hacked. Happened to our national congress party tweet once…around 3 months back….where on clickling their tweet link users were redirected to the opposition party website….LOL!

  • http://twitter.com/JSP0421 Joel Parker

    An even better method is using PhotoGrabber (http://code.google.com/p/photograbber/) and then uploading to Picasa yourself.

  • Pat and Wayne Harriman

    Actually, the .to domain is Tonga, not Turkey, isn’t it? Not sure that’s a big improvement…

    • http://twitter.com/Musashimaru2005 Musashimaru Yokozuna

      True. Turkey’s domain is .tk

  • http://chrisdrinkut.wordpress.com/ Christopher Drinkut

    So, if someone did use this go/plus couldn’t they just not use the shorten name and safegaurd themselves from the potential negative consequences?

    • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

      I just wouldn’t go about promoting it anywhere or putting it on business cards. ;)

      • http://chrisdrinkut.wordpress.com/ Christopher Drinkut

        Thanks Chris,.. I’ve already forgotten what the url was. – thing of the past.

  • http://cruisesurfingz.com roy | cruisesurfingz.com

    Thanks for the advice!

  • http://aarontoponce.org/ Aaron Toponce

    Yay. Comments are enabled now! :)

    About your http://gplus.to alternative, if you have setup your Google Profile prior to Plus, then you had the option to setup a vanity URL. I have already done so: http://profiles.google.com/aaron.toponce

    I’ve submitted feedback to Google.

  • Robert Fletcher

    genius!

  • http://profiles.google.com/holly.jahangiri Holly Jahangiri

    I love my nook. But I keep trying to interact with it as if it’s a touch-enabled device (which it is, but only the little color bar at the bottom of the screen). This has some possibilities. A device this size – primarily for reading eBooks? Needs to have the e-Ink technology, and not just be another little tablet or touch device. I’m more intrigued with this than with the Amazon Fire.

  • http://twitter.com/wetcloud Kathleen Kiser

    I like the idea of the kindle touch – simple it is for one thing e-books.  Price-Point and simplicity might be the thing Grandma wants for Xmas.

  • kevin sexton

    brings touch to the e-ink display?
    This is misleading, as the current nook has a touchscreen display. The original one had a small color touchscreen at the bottom of the e-ink, but the current one, which launched in June, was the one that should have got this kind of title. The kindle is 3 1/2 months behind.

  • http://unitedtechguys.com/ Brad Merrill

    I think he’s talking about the new theme. If so, I agree – I much prefer the old WicketPixie theme. But the content is great, and that’s the most important thing. :-)