Is this the real Apple tablet?

Another Photoshop job or the actual real deal?

Is this the real Apple tablet?. Hardware, Apple, Apple tablet, iTablet, Rumours 0

26 January 2010 8:23 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Yet more pictures claiming to be the Apple iTablet have turned up on the Web on Tuesday, just a day before Apple's big announcement on Wednesday.

Posted by designer Dustin Curtis, the images, which he claims are real but doctored to look fake show what appears to be the Apple tablet on a 15-inch MacBook Pro.

The tablet, which could be yet another fake isn't turned on, but does fit with the general consensus currently doing the rounds of an aluminium casing, single touchscreen measuring around 10-inches, and a thin black border like the iPhone and MacBook Pro screens.

Looking closely at the image there is a standard iPhone looking volume button set on the left hand side of the device and a 30-pin docking connector.

However, many of the comments on the post suggest that the "shadows" and "reflections" aren't correct, something that Curtis says is the case at the beginning:

"I have reason to believe these are real, and that the person who took/released them purposefully manipulated the reflections to add doubt about their authenticity".

We will find out on Wednesday.

In the meantime, what do you think? Do you believe these images to be the work of photoshop or the real deal? Have your say below.

UPDATE: This image has now been debunked by Photoshop experts, however McGraw-Hill CEO has confirmed that Apple will be launching a Tablet device running the iPhone OS on Wednesday. 

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Comments

  • The iSlate is real. The 15 inch Macbook Pro is fake. Posted by JP, United States
  • It could be a reasonable approximation in photoshop of how it will have to look based on what information we have been given. Posted by WLS, USA
  • nah.... apple is too innovative to release something that looks like the one above. how are you going to hold that without touching the side of the screen... Posted by SD, United Kingdom
  • The unibody manufacturing aspect is missing (we see a black plastic back instead). The thinner the device becomes, the stronger the back should be, that you manage with unibody techniques. Stiffness and firmness and also more luxurious. This is a fake, but nice rendering indeed. The form factor will be more innovative of the upcoming iTablet, both from a marketing point (should not look like iPhone, but a unique different device, although consistent within the product line by apple) and technical perspective of innovation will have its effect on design, such as how to hold the device, etc. Till now we have only seen enlargements, scaled up iphone's and what we will see tomorrow is for sure more than that Posted by Roemer, Netherlands
  • The islate or ipad will have to have flash player which is one thing the iPhone is yet to have. Let's hope the flash player comes to the iPhone tomorrow as it's well overdue don't you think? Posted by Steve, UK
  • "The islate or ipad will have to have flash player"

    Why?

    I don't miss not having a Flash player on my iPhone one little bit. It's a non-issue for me as I am sure it is for many, many other iPhone users.
    Posted by Pete, UK
  • Flash player will soon be obsolete with HTML5 based video - see recent YouTube and Google announcements Posted by TXcrude, USA
  • If I was Apple I would have called it iThink - but this is not the one. Prepare for something completely different Posted by Paul, NL
  • I need Flash so I can look at more porn videos. Posted by jack oniel, USA
  • Flash player is not going to be obsolete any time soon, as there is now a fight over what codec to use for HTML 5's video tag, since the entire concept of a standard is not to use proprietary technology. Mozilla and Google are at odds. Posted by AndrewC73, USA
  • Not nearly slick enough. Looks a little boxy/square to me for an Apple product. Posted by Walsho, USA
  • ROFL.. Guess it's not the real Apple Tablet.. It's a little too slick to be the Apple Ipad.. Which imho is ugly.. Posted by T, UK

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