OK… how about THIS one…

December 21, 2008 by Dr. Macenstein
Filed under: Mac mini, Rampant Speculation, Rumors, design 

[UPDATE: OK we have confirmed this one as fake, but we're leaving it up for discussion's sake. The other one with the weird vent hat thing still has potential.]

Another day, another Mac mini “leak”. I’m not sure why we’re getting all these, but I find them interesting, so here you go.



Click to embiggen.

I’d love to believe this one is real, but it looks like someone took all the criticisms of the last Mac mini post and created a new, slightly more plausible/boring design.

At this point I have to assume we are being jerked around, as this has the same “The world’s smallest desktop computer” tag as the last one, but loses the top bezel thing, moves the power LED to the right and makes it white, like the current mini. To top it off, it’s been thrown onto the Apple homepage for an extra dose of “authenticity”. Still, if I were to envision what a new Mac mini might look like, this would be it.

Besides, it came from France, and we all know imported rumors are better than US ones).

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20 Comments on OK… how about THIS one…

  1. Rowlings on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 11:54 am
  2. jerked around? where’s your conspiracy-minded mind, Doc?!
    Obviously the first shots were leaked to you to cause confusion and discredit this shot, which is clearly the real deal.

    :)

    Looks really nice though..

  3. Alex on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 12:02 pm
  4. The “T” and the “.” in the headline fall outside the frame of the website. Fake.

  5. mawes on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 12:05 pm
  6. for the headline “the worlds smallest desktop computer” the picture is way too big. i mean… there it looks like a monster. not very apple-like advertising

  7. Blesst on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 12:24 pm
  8. I am pretty sure the slot at the front must be a LP-slot, for it must be the smallest desktop computer with a LP-slot build in. And with that in mind it is quite a small picture, don’t you think?

  9. Jay Robinson on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 12:25 pm
  10. And, that’s not an apostrophe.

  11. flo on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 12:25 pm
  12. right mark^^

  13. macpeter on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 12:40 pm
  14. no way

  15. baltimoresbest01 on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 2:09 pm
  16. if this is supposed to be released at macworld, why is there a christmas ad in the bottom right hand corner. if this were real, it would have to be announced today….

  17. fusio on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 4:05 pm
  18. And what about this one ?????
    New NETBOOK from Apple… Fake ?

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3217/3125410651_d76946af52_b.jpg

  19. Tice on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 5:32 pm
  20. John Madden on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 5:47 pm
  21. I’m only so-so with Photoshop and Adobe CS as a whole. Good enough to keep my job, but there are many, many out there better than me. With that in mind, I could *still* do this in about 15 minutes, and with less mistakes.

    At least the whoever faked the shot of the netbook fusio linked to got the font right.

    I’m calling BS on both, though.

  22. Luis on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 7:48 pm
  23. Keep them coming, I agree to call this one a fake too. I wonder who has this much time to waste on these mock ups, I know… Just tell him to keep guessing, this is fun.

  24. secretmrx on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 9:40 pm
  25. Fake, the gradient on the text is too “sharp,” Appleâ„¢ always uses a nice soft but noticable one.

  26. Brian on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 11:02 pm
  27. fake. the bottom still has the holiday thing going on.
    “Have they been really good this year? Free express shipping 12/22″.

  28. Dave-O on Sun, 21st Dec 2008 11:21 pm
  29. First of all, the current mini isn’t white. The top is, but the sides are aluminum. Secondly, if Apple were going to release a mini so obviously inspired by the new MB and MBP, it would be brushed aluminum, not white.

    I second all the other criticisms about the crappy text. Dumb apostrophe? I don’t think so.

  30. gaetano marano on Mon, 22nd Dec 2008 11:16 am
  31. .
    .
    the new MacMini “could”" be a very small “MICRO-Mac” OR a “POCKET-Mac” with Docking Station(s) as suggested 1.5 months ago on my blog:
    http://newgoos.blogspot.com/
    .
    .

  32. darvi on Mon, 22nd Dec 2008 11:42 am
  33. PhilippeB on Mon, 22nd Dec 2008 3:02 pm
  34. I think they’ll make something like an “unibody” Mac Mini, maybe a macbook without keyboard and screen…
    Or something taller like that one :

    http://www.philippeb.info/PhilippeBMacMini.jpg

    It would do a perfect Media Center for me, I’ve waited for more than a year to buy a new mac mini to build a nice home theater mac…

    Maybe january will be better than christmas this year !

  35. Rick Curran on Tue, 23rd Dec 2008 2:19 pm
  36. Nope, I think this is going to be the new Mock Mini, erm, Mac Mini…

    http://suburbia.org.uk/blog/2008/12/22/173656.html

  37. Col on Wed, 24th Dec 2008 5:38 am
  38. The title’s missing an asterisk at the end for the obligatory footnote:

    * and the world’s largest power supply.

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