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New MacBook Case Leak Rumors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dear-god-i-need-a-new-machine dept.

Someone noted that there are more macbook case leaks which look to all but confirm a new MacBook and possibly a MacBook Pro expected to be announced for later this week. There seem to be fewer ports, and no leaks of a 17" aircraft carrier laptop.

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  1. Case leaks? by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Man, I thought for a moment this was a story about another dangerous flaw being suppressed and denied by Apple. Case leaks. Some mysterious goo or battery acid comes pouring out of your macbook.

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  2. Re:whoopdifriggindo by node+3 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is a website primarily for free software and GNU/Linux news though.

    Citation needed.

    That's one part of what slashdot is for, and it seems likely that that's primarily why *you* are here, but that's not a universal. Besides, even if it *is* the primary reason for slashdot (it's not, but let's just pretend), then if there is a primary purpose, there would reasonably be articles with secondary purposes, like this one.

    Some additional purposes of slashdot are:

    1. Gaming
    2. Sony bashing (this has waned significantly)
    3. Fawning over Apple (what this article is about)
    4. Security scaremongering
    5. Predicting the death of various technologies
    6. Tech politics
    etc.

    I know in recent years that has weakened slightly, but I think the release of a bunch of software that everyone is encouraged to download, share, study, modify, run and distribute is somewhat different to 'proprietary software company release new model of their $2000 operating system dongle' in terms of its usefulness to society.

    I agree. At least with OS X, society can actually use the system.

    I submit that more people listen to music, share photos and videos, video chat, etc, because of Apple's hardware and software and than because of Linux. Maybe some day (a day which perpetually seems to be perpetually just ahead, like a horizon that can never be reached) Linux will catch up or surpass Apple's products, but until then, Apple is quite important to society.

    On the other hand, more web sites function because of Linux than because of Apple's servers (although in this case, OS X is more able to replace Linux as a web server than Linux is able to replace OS X as a desktop OS).

    In other words, each has its place here on slashdot.