Apple Potentially Facing Worst Leak Since iPhone 4 Was Left In a Bar (macrumors.com) 15
"Alleged photos and videos of an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip continue to surface on social media, in what could be the worst product leak for Apple since an employee accidentally left an iPhone 4 prototype at a bar in California in 2010," writes MacRumors' Joe Rossignol. From the report: The latest video of what could be a next-generation MacBook Pro was shared on YouTube Shorts today by Russian channel Romancev768, just one day after another Russian channel shared a similar video. The clip shows a box for a 14-inch MacBook Pro that is apparently configured with an M4 chip with a 10-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, three Thunderbolt 4 ports, and a Space Black finish. According to the "About This Mac" software menu shown in the video, the MacBook Pro in the video is allegedly an unreleased November 2024 model. [...]
Apple is well known for having a culture of secrecy, so this magnitude of leak is rarely seen for its products. As previously mentioned, this could be the most significant leak for Apple since Gizmodo obtained and shared photos of an iPhone 4 prototype that a then-employee of the company accidentally left behind at a bar in California. In that case, Apple got law enforcement involved, but how it acts this time around remains to be seen.
Apple is well known for having a culture of secrecy, so this magnitude of leak is rarely seen for its products. As previously mentioned, this could be the most significant leak for Apple since Gizmodo obtained and shared photos of an iPhone 4 prototype that a then-employee of the company accidentally left behind at a bar in California. In that case, Apple got law enforcement involved, but how it acts this time around remains to be seen.
Not so pro (Score:2)
MacBook Pro ... 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage
Those are some rather modest numbers for a supposedly pro machine.
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MacBook Pro ... 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage
Those are some rather modest numbers for a supposedly pro machine.
It’s offered at a Pro cost point. Nothing supposed about the iPrice.
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Re: Not so pro (Score:2)
Mmmmm. I can already feel my muscles bulging from pressing the 'order now' button on that 512 GB model..... M4 baby, here I come!
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Re: They are already stacked up in warehouses (Score:2)
Tim Cook is a walking snoozefest and I say that as a former Apple fan that watched the Apple keynotes and livecasts of the Jobs era with almost religious dedication.
"Worst leak?" (Score:2)
Re: "Worst leak?" (Score:2)
They have to write /something/ in the headlines.
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oh no (Score:2)
now the people won't be amazed by the ultimate reveal of a minor tech refresh to a boring laptop
did they finally add a touch screen? that would be shocking
Blockbuster News! Stop the Presses! (Score:2)
Approximately 12 months after Apple released several laptops featuring the Apple Silicon M3 chips... thanks to this AMAZING leak we NOW KNOW that, in the near future, they're planning to release one or more laptops featuring the Apple Silicon M4 chip!
This is earth-shattering, stupendous news! Glad I was sitting down because man, you could knock me over with a feather right now!
Seems like a pretty modest leak (Score:2)
The iPhone 4 was a huge release—new form factor, 4x the resolution of previous iPhones, and a significant camera bump. It may seem quaint now, but the iPhone 4 was amazing at the time. Apple testers even had special cases made so it looked like the then-current 3GS. That was a major leak.
This laptop? Seems like a spec bump. A welcome spec bump, sure, but just a spec bump. If this is the worst leak Apple's had since the iPhone 4, then they've done a great job keeping things under wraps since.
What's leaked exactly? (Score:2)
The new Macbook is going to have the current Apple CPU, announced 6 months ago with the iPad Pro
The same RAM and SSD as is already available
The same ports
The same screen