That screen is 16:10 ... any device aimed at video will be 16:9

The pics have already been discredited on a few rumour sites.

If you Google an image using "mac leopard welcome" you'll find the same welcome screen as shown on these photos. Makes you thing they've just grabbed the first image they could get and 'shopped it on...

for multiple reasons.

first : you clearly see the lcd bend ( when he touches the lcd you see the color shift due to the glass warping ) the real deal would have an extra glass plate that forms the touchscreen. the cromatic shift would not be noticeable.

second all he shows is apps that are on iphone aspect ratio. simple screenshots.

there is not a single app that shows fullscreen. kinda stupid for a tablet.

the images also look 'inflated' like they were doubled in size.

Do an image search on google for 'leopard welcome'. The first hit matches the one in the photo .. http://images.google.com/images?q=leopard welcome

Notice the pauses before pressing certain buttons such as the 'Top 25' button in the iTunes store, and also note the disparate scrolling of the notes app and the finger gesture, along with the delay.

Looks to me like that is simply an animation with the faker pretending to interact with it.

Note also the casing is white with a lip around the edge (just like a MacBook in fact...), and why limit the video to the screen? It's as if someone doesn't want us to see something - such as the rest of the laptop it's running on.

Finally note when the 'Notes' app icon is initially pushed, we see a discolouration as the LCD (hint) panel is pressed - Apple's latest displays (including the iPhone) have a glass cover and this would not happen, however it is feasible this could be a new type of display.

That video shows a soft TFT-style screen (like you get on a laptop or flatscreen). I find it hard to believe that Apple wouldn't use a hard (glass?) capacitive screen for a device like this.

Also, the timing of the finger-presses and screen reactions aren't in sync. It wouldn't take long to knock up a fake 'screen interaction' in flash etc, run it whilst on close zoom.

First of all... the 'welcome' picture is **precisely** the same as the picture you get when you do a Google search for Leopard Welcome screen

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=leopard+welcome+screen&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0

What are the chances that the letters would be photographed in exactly the same position on the 'tablet'? Indeed, why would it be running Leopard which isn't optimised for pudgy fingers? It'd be running something else - similar maybe, but certainly not using the same welcome screen and certainly not when Leopard is about to be upgraded and in the process changing the installation process anyway - why would a pre-production machine be using an old version of the OS not designed for tablet usage when there's a new version due out any day that clearly would support a tablet (if indeed they plan to use normal OS X on it at all)?

Secondly, the alignment of the graphic isn't correct.

Thirdly, the video very carefully doesn't show the edges of the 'tablet' - it's so obviously a finger choreographed to a video.

Fourthly, Apple would NEVER release anything that ugly.

This is an absolute fake.

Someone has an iphone and an iMac and has generated the video by overlaying graphics from the two (the aspect ratio of the notes app is exactly the same as it is on the iphone, which there doesn't seem to need to be necessary or optimal on the itablet).

Less sure about the casing, but perhaps a snap of an iphone rejigged? They'd have had to move the button, airbrushed out the speaker and recoloured the bevel but hardly beyond the means of a good photoshopper!

I'm just not convinced apple would go for such a small button on a large device!

that's a rubbish fake, the build quality is pathetic, the screen/device corners sit very awkwardly, it's not the right colour/finish either. it's also missing one key feature. you'll find out sept 15th.

no, think different.

it's a new type of device, not a larger version of whats already there.

Check out the Notes dock icon - when he presses it, the screen shimmers, any tablet would have a rigid glass touch pane like the iphone/ipod touch.

So either it is the Tablet OS, running on a laptop or its a complete mock up.. Either way, that ain't no touchscreen being used interactively.

Which is far more attractive to me. Bigger, (most likely) cheaper and open.

Two things which I find quite compelling are the momentum given to the Notes app when it's moved and the keyboard appearing when it is activated. These are both features that seem very Apple-like.

Otoh, I worry that the screen "gives" like a laptop one rather than the solid glassy surface of the iPhone or iPod touch.

The key to tablets is that they sometimes will be used by more than one person at a time - that means the stand it comes with will be important. You need a simple way to hold the device at 45º while being strong enough for two people to be prodding the screen without falling over.

@alex4d

fake fake fake

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fake

paris, coz nothin's fake on her...

Ok someone else can clarify on this for me as I don't know much about touch displays.

When the person presses on the screen in the video the response is like a flat screen LCD display, the surface squishes and you can see distortion on the screen.

This usually means the screen is plastic covered, I would have thought for somelike like a tablet it would have a glass display so you wouldn't see the pressure distortion.

A plastic covered screen wouldn't last minutes in your pocket. Apple seem to like glass on the displays and you can have glass covered touchs screens maybe working on capacitive technology, right?

So could it either be a very early prototype as El Reg suggests or someone has knocked up a fake, which is very convincing.

I hope the Apple tablet is coming out as it looks amazing, but I suspect it will also be very expensive.

To use multi touch and gestures, you'll need one hand free while the other holds the tablet. The most secure grip will be to tuck it into the crook of your arm and hold it clipboard-style. However, that's portrait orientation, so the Home button is in the wrong place. It needs to be on the narrow axis of the device, not the wide one. That position will still work for landscape use, but the device will need to know which way is up to cater for right and left-handed users.

My first thoughts exactly.

My second thoughts were, why zoom in so close? So you can't see what he's touching, of course.

And Apple are keen on ergonomics...the bevel is ugly (too wide a radius) and the home button is too close to the edge, and too iPhone/iPod Touch.

Finally I doubt very much that they'd force you to type on an iPhone-size keypad with a full screen at your disposal.

Fake.

Its amazing what you can do with 3ds max and Vray (ON A PC)

Fakety fakety fake fake.

I Reckon, this wasn't even made with photoshop... A Couple of MS Paint windows open and that would be pretty straight forward to make :) Background with phone, stretch a iPhone and fix the button, paste a image on the screen =D Sorted :)

Ball Gates because MS Paints probably the only useful thing on windows :)

who cares, it's fugly. Not in the usual sense though but iOMG fugly. So, is the IT angle the use of photoshop or something?

An Etch-a-Sketch!