While the interviews held by Charlie Rose for 60 Minutes and its “Inside Apple” special weren’t all that hard-hitting, there was at least one interesting detail that arose from the episode.
As put together by Tech Insider, about three minutes and 10 seconds into Part 1 of the special, there’s a room full of Apple executives sitting around, including Eddy Cue, Jeff Williams, and Phil Schiller, who are apparently accompanied by an open laptop that the original report believed wasn’t a device that Apple had actually announced. That suggestion, that Apple had let slip an unannounced, ridiculously thin MacBook Pro found leverage on Internet forums, including Reddit, and spread like wildfire.
The suggestion was that Apple’s executives had managed to put an unannounced MacBook-branded laptop on a table in a conference room where Charlie Rose, and probably more than a couple cameras recording an episode that would be aired nationally and spread on the Internet within hours of its airing. Meanwhile, the company would cover tables with prototype products on them within its design studio when Rose would take his tour.
At first glance, as you can see in the image above, it admittedly does look like an unannounced laptop. It looks pretty big, it is thin, and it has the same Space Gray finish as the 12-inch MacBook released earlier in 2015. Many pointed out the “sharp” edges and the thin bezel as other “dead giveaways” pointing out an unannounced product. The Tech Insider report suggested it could be a 15-inch MacBook Air, a rumor that has swirled around for quite some time now.
However, Apple has confirmed that it’s just a 12-inch MacBook.
The confusion isn’t unwarranted — it does look like it could be a new product. But the laptop is opened at an unflattering angle compared to where the camera is positioned for that specific shot. The “sharp” edges aren’t a result of a different design philosophy, but rather being perfectly in line with the blinds behind the computer, giving the top edge a much sharper design aesthetic, especially where the curved edges should be. The glare on the computer’s display, leading down into the bottom edge, is probably hiding the printed “MacBook” below the display. And the keyboard is very clearly edge-to-edge, just like on the small-sized 12-inch MacBook.
[via Tech Insider]
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