I dunno ... either the graininess has obscured the polish and details or this isn't it.
There are a lot of things that seem strange about this as a case design ... no rounded corners, the visual texture is all grate on the front and all smooth on the side, that's too heavy-handed to be an Apple design. Frankly, I don't think it looks good enough.
However, I do think that it will be in this nieghborhood, just that this isn't the one.
Not to mention the pants bit is a *littttle* hokey for my tastes.
Thanks, COS. The perspective on the new one is really aggressive ... normal people don't take pictures like that. Didn't I read somewhere that Apple always used a standard angle on pictures of its boxes?
Just a small comment on the genuine MDD picture, that image has most likely been retouched to hell and back, and probably been distorted too, to try to square up the front.
Didn't I read somewhere that Apple always used a standard angle on pictures of its boxes?
No they don't, if you can find originals from Apple you'll find that they are at "similar" angles (ie they are all taken showing the non-opening side), but the perspective and actual angles are always different.
Hey, anyone remember this one from AI's distant past? May 2001!
IIRC, it was created in response to one of the then-popular AI instigat--...er, "sources" But I don't remember the name now. (No, not WorkerBee, not Kormac...hrm, anyone?)
No they don't, if you can find originals from Apple you'll find that they are at "similar" angles (ie they are all taken showing the non-opening side), but the perspective and actual angles are always different.
Some recent ones from apple-history.com . . . . I believe they take them directly from the Apple shots.
The halftoning itself doesn't scream 'fake' at me, but the following does: looking at a blow up of the image, the dot spacing of the half tone does not change around the crinkles/folds in the image. If the original image was a halftone that got crumpled, the density of dots would change at the folds in the paper, which they dont.
Either that, or I'm paying waaaay to much attention to this.
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Originally posted by Ti Fighter
Spymac in general isnt on anymore, Not loading for me
i know, spymac sucked, it always took like 5 hours to load too
Mac Guru
woh there were holes there a minute ago, this must be real they are trying to cover it up!!
edit: and you need to sloppily cut it out from the backround
:P
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There are a lot of things that seem strange about this as a case design ... no rounded corners, the visual texture is all grate on the front and all smooth on the side, that's too heavy-handed to be an Apple design. Frankly, I don't think it looks good enough.
However, I do think that it will be in this nieghborhood, just that this isn't the one.
Not to mention the pants bit is a *littttle* hokey for my tastes.
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Intresting to see how much better the current one looks, then again, you can't really compare until you see the real one if this one is real
Originally posted by COS
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A side by side comparison
Just a small comment on the genuine MDD picture, that image has most likely been retouched to hell and back, and probably been distorted too, to try to square up the front.
Originally posted by cubist
Didn't I read somewhere that Apple always used a standard angle on pictures of its boxes?
No they don't, if you can find originals from Apple you'll find that they are at "similar" angles (ie they are all taken showing the non-opening side), but the perspective and actual angles are always different.
IIRC, it was created in response to one of the then-popular AI instigat--...er, "sources"
Originally posted by Clive
No they don't, if you can find originals from Apple you'll find that they are at "similar" angles (ie they are all taken showing the non-opening side), but the perspective and actual angles are always different.
Some recent ones from apple-history.com . . . . I believe they take them directly from the Apple shots.
Either that, or I'm paying waaaay to much attention to this.
It's only six days!!!