That doesn't look like some Steve would approve.
Like... a lot.

Ferris Wheeler

Eww....

Evangelion

Called it!

Now we'll all forget we ever didn't like it.

.endejas.

@MICHAELSD: Whats the need for a blazing fast Vid card in a Mac? Enless your doing crazy grapic design you really have no need. Last time I checked, Mac was not a meca for gaming.

Ephemera

@GC: So basically nothing game changing on the hardware level. I should prob hold off and hope they drop the price for the 1st gen touch.

Ephemera

Forget the iPods, I want a redesigned MacBook Pro. Apple has kept the same (amazing) design since the PowerBook, I think it's finally time for a redesign. Anyone think that Apple will put a decent video card in? The ATI 4850 might work, I think it has the same power consumption as the x1600 in the first MBP and it's around as fast as the 8800M GTX, if not faster. Anything else won't really be a big upgrade...

MICHAELSD

OH man!!! Why can't you people just wait until the man actually presents the damn thing!!! It's not that hard!!!!
*avoids tomatoes*

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

Wow that thing looks ugly. Is the screen and whole front face really curved out like that?

andyc52042

iPod, Dukes of Hazzard Edition. I bet it plays the general lee horn sound when you turn it on, and plays cooter's laugh when you tickle the scroll wheel

sheepdip

I don't like those curves. it looks like it will suffer from screen glare.

takashimiike 7

@Ephemera: Signs point to yes. It's probably going to get the rounded case like the iPhone 3G at a minimum. Probably more space and/or a price cut.

GC

So sexy, mmmmmyes.

I can't wait for the updated Touch.

GC

@MICHAELSD: No, it isn't. It's more like if you widened the screen a bit, thinned the lower half, then flipped that up beside the screen. Bigger yes, but not by much.

P.S. I admit that the above is purely speculation.

guypatsy

well, there's only 2 more days till steve blows us away again. so wait out

acekrn

Is the Touch getting a update because I'm looking to buy one, so I don't know if I should wait or what.

Ephemera

a lot of people will still say it looks like shit, just because they can't say "hey, i'll admit I was wrong." but anyways, i think it looks great. I mean, break it down, it's essentially a 2nd gen, but with a widescreen for videos. and a 2nd gen was essentially a 1st gen but in aluminum. so if you were a fan of the first gen nano, how can you not be a fan of this? if you tell me you never liked the nanos until the 3rd gen, then fine, but don't tell me you like 2 and not 4. it's the same thing. This one's just a bit sexier.

njso18

It looks almost identical to the one Kevin Rose put up except for the color scheme.

CincyShannon

sooo, it looks like a zune.

The Real 31

i really dont think my n button is working...

Charging_Mooses

i mean the absolutely love the actual product...

Charging_Mooses

mmmmm citrus-y... i knew people would hate all the CAD mock ups, the absolutely LOVE the actual product... thats exactly how it was last time. why cant a majority of people actually hate an apple product? is it really that hard?

Charging_Mooses

Isn't that a little less than double the size of the current Nano?

MICHAELSD

Love the new screen but still a little apprehensive about the curvatures. Apple is really tapering everything theyve got arent they.

kitsuneconundrum

Any of the cards with a 128-bit memory interface (anything up to the 9700M GTS) isn't going to be much of a performance increase over the 8600 GT. I think it's finally time for Apple to step it up, especially if they keep the $2k+ price point.

MICHAELSD

@MICHAELSD:

uh Macs for gaming?

LOL

thats a good one.

Ruzzel26

Why is Apple practically the only company to get all of their products leaked before they come out? I think they might just purposely release these, or at least like that we do, so we get more hyped up for any of their new products.

MICHAELSD

i say it's fake.....maybe

UHMinSoCal

Looks like they went the 1.8" path.

daftrok

@kitsuneconundrum: They don't want you to hurt yourself when "it just don't work".

Ephemera

Anyway, regarding the product, I'm glad to see that the orange color made it to the nanos. Also, I was right about the port. Apple will never be rid of their proprietary port.

I'm still pretty skeptical about the whole curvy thing. That's still not settling well in my mind. I'll have to see it in person and see if it grows on me.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

@Ephemera: The irony is that if Macs have paltry cards, they're criticized for having cards that are not the best spec. If they have cards that are actually great, then it's criticized that you won't be doing any gaming on them. Funny little Catch 22. I imagine there's other things one can do with a great graphics card other than game, and at the same time, not involve high end expensive productivity work, though that'd definitely be something worth considering.

In either case, if someone wants a Mac but wants a gaming PC, a Mac with a great card can just save money on buying the separate PC and boot camp the whole shebang.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

I am so buying one of those.

LA_Longhorn

@Ephemera: I'm sure it's getting a 64GB update and that yellow tinted screen...

VakeroRokero

Can't wait to see it in person.

NSX

"it's much, much prettier and Apple-y than what Kevin Rose provided us with"

Huh.
Really?
You mean, because now it is in an Apple glassy box?

So far, i'm not amazed... but I'll make my mind only when i can hold it. And play with it.

fargi

Nice, but they better show the macbook tablet too!

Shadowlayer

I don't like it :( apart from the colour its plain looking it looks like the designers have got stale and Ive is just phoning it in.

Ive "Yeah take the Nano make it look like every other freakin player we have, oh yeah can you make it bright orange"

Engineer "yeah those Apple people will buy anything in Orange, maybe a Lime green one as well"

Ive "hey fuckwit I am the designer here"

ichi1

eh, i wish the screen was bigger.

you know what would be really cool? if they kept the current size of the nano but made it touch screen. i would buy that in a heartbeat.

rudez90

It's the same design and interface they've had all decade long.

Boring.

DGUW

@DW

Exactly what I was thinking, I say fake

timp123

If you're being serious, what makes you say that?

MICHAELSD

@ArakniD: ****py trolling is ****py trolling ;).

MICHAELSD

It has an accelerometer in it too
:-)

ArakniD

Looks good! I'm in lust with the rust color!

However, when you're watching a video, the controls would be incorrect. Granted, most of us can get over that quickly, but it'd be an interesting design flaw if they haven't worked around it. No, I can't imagine anyone would've not thought of that, especially Steve Jobs who is so detailed.

I'm guessing this isn't real.

DW

Last year, the UI only got a little update. Maybe this year we can expect a major overhaul?

MICHAELSD

Last year was only a small UI update. Maybe this year we can expect a major overhaul?

MICHAELSD

If this is considered the "next generation," is it really necessary for Apple to provide new models EVERY SINGLE year? I guess so, since there is a large crowd whose iPods will have crapped out recently and, since they've purchased all of their music from iTunes (which will only play on iPods, of course), they'll automatically look to the "new" model, instead of other players that could (*gasp*) be better.

This is a design step back, as far as I'm concerned, and now no one has ANY room to talk about flash Zune design decisions. Apple had better pull some crazy features out of its ass for iTunes 8. Then again, they don't really have to do anything to retain their marketshare. It's a shame, really, that consumers would put up with that kind of unwarranted dominance.

drewkkake

oh and, who wants to place a little bet on how bloated the next iTunes will be?

my guess is it's going to be at least 60-70MB to download, and it's still going to eat away Windows RAM like crazy.

slname

still ugly. and again, half the player is screen, and HALF is the controls. horrible.

slname

@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge: This is true, But with the way PC gaming is, and the way apple handles upgrading your mac, its not ideal. Anways this is flowing off topic.

I hope they don't yellow the screen on the touch, I'm not a fan of that on the 3G.

Ephemera

I don't get all this hype over what the damn thing looks like. That's probably the least important aspect of it -- and yet that's all the rumor mill seems to care about atm. Just shows you that the average Apple customer really does prefer form over function.

Faxmonkey

@DGUW: Not sure what you saw, but all I see is a dark display. There is no interface to speak of. yet.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

See what happends when youre to eager. Shit comes out.

baandoptager

Two! not To. Argh.

baandoptager

To signs that apple is loosing its grip on what they had:

01: its fuggly as hell, even ugglier than the fatty nano. This more curvy design away from the linear/rounded they had, is not working. yuk.

02: their products get leaked even more than earlier, which also could signal that they doing too much for their own good in order to keep it sealed as they used to do.

RESULT= Ugly (disfigured) nasty crap coated with poor ambitions factory sealed in a bubble of shit waiting to blow.

baandoptager

@slname:
People still use Windows?

soopafly

@soopafly:

well, linux doesn't do all i want it to do (and besides, i can't exactly use the "precious" itunes) and when macs cost DOUBLE what they cost in US, then yeah, people use windows. especially if you get them for free as an IT student.

oh and, I quite like my vista, thank you very much. "it just works" ;)

slname

Last year people complained about the fatty nano, they wanted the tall one back, they got it. What, still unhappy?!
@Faxmonkey: Design makes you happy. But I'm sure do hope that this is not the real thing, maybe a good UI could compromise that not so well designed nano. And I sure do hope that they will update the Classic. Bigger screen, please please, bigger screen.

Minimum91

I'm not sure if I like it, you'd have to hold the final product in your hand to make real judgement. Love the colour though! What I'm wondering is how will the interface work, namely Coverflow. I'm thinking this nano will have accelerometer for you to turn it on it's side foto get to coverflow view...

iRondo

@MICHAELSD: You have broken the code!

strider_mt2k

This is actually sort of underwhelming seeing as how we essentially saw this same design back when Kevin Rose made his predictions about the new Nano and the like. Honestly, I didn't like the original mock up that Keven gave us, and I don't really like this alleged "final product" because it's essentially the same. All the same, I still expect some people who absolutely detested Kevin's shot to proclaim that they love this with all their heart. For some reason, when it comes from Apple, people just find it better...even if it's identical to the thing that got leaked to the interwebz just a few weeks before. This is coming from somebody who loves Apple too. I'm not a rabid fanboy/cultist, (I own and use a Lenevo X60 with Windows XP alongside my MacBook) but I will admit a strong preference for their products over those of other companies. It's not that I hate the new design, or I find it hideous (though it isn't gorgeous either) I'm just disappointed in the lack of creativity in both Apple and their cultists, and Apple's ability to keep their secrets.

Katoejoe

Yeah, so basically it's a Flash Zune.

Minus the Zune Pad :(

Cursemaster0

I've got a shuffle and a first-gen iPhone, and I'm planning on selling the iPhone and waiting out Android, so I was considering getting a nano for working out-- the current model (as of this moment) is a great size for mounting in an armband... and the flat back doesn't hurt at all. That seems to be changed, here. The new design is OK-- I don't hate it, but I think I much prefer the fatty. I just think the rounded case is going to prove to be impractical.

wild homes abides!

can someone tell me what this is?
[www.lastfm.de]

ddink

Im still flabbergasted over how dumb this player looks (if its real).

baandoptager

I'm glad that my Zune is now prettier than the iPod nano.

The Sword Master

Thats a pretty color!! I'll stick with my (older model) zune. It's actually held out over much more of a beating than my ipod ever did. My ipod was having harddrive issues within the first 8 months. My replacement one also....this zune..well It's been abused so bad it's got a crack in the plastic screen, and the harddrive has NEVER frozen.

Ajh

@ddink: It appears to be a version of MobileScrobbler for the App Store. I'm not sure I understand your question.

wild homes abides!

Looks worse than a flash Zune:).

They did try to copy the design of a flash Zune, don't say it looks like an old nano, look at the shape of the screen.

wcnghj

Apple event were much, much more exciting when their ship wan't full of leaks. Takes all the fun out of it!

jbang

Hmm, looks pretty nice to me, but I'm looking forward to getting an iPod touch.

RE-L

@MICHAELSD: Because of impatient douche bags who'll just say "oh" when it comes out. Just like SDK.

Earthslide

Curpertino's not asking you to get rid of this post, hmm...

pcdsim

@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge:

I imagine there's other things one can do with a great graphics card other than game, and at the same time, not involve high end expensive productivity work

itchytooth

3rd Gen is way better. If this has same size screen as 3rd gen it's going to be bigger. Why would they do that? I don't think that's a picture of the new nano. Maybe a new Ipod but the nano is supposed to be small.

ultrasonoro

@drewkkake: whaaaaaaaaaambulance. Looks like someone hates success.

MastaFalse

@Ruzzel26: lolloolololl. You're clever.

MastaFalse

@The Sword Master: QFT

Metkis

Is it just me or is Apple having erectile dysfunction with their Nano?

yoshi

Look at the reflections, they are in two completly different focusses, foci, focusers? Two different sharpness levels, and look stuck on. I call fakeish.

nightsky

@Simpsons-Movie-ruled: *throws rotten head of lettuce*

BiZarRroBALlmeR

This is not the nano, this is the new... iPod classic

dun DUN DERRRR

timp123

@Ephemera: Wait, don't buy one yet, I hope you read this in time.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

I know it's been pointed out before but sheesh, isn't it ironic that so called tech geeks don't know how to use the macro settings on a digital camera in order to take a sharp, in focus photograph?
I like the Nano, BUT I'd like to see the whole front become a touch screen.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

Thank god now it can fit easily in the pocket.

Pressvre

I doubt that will be the Nano for the simple fact that its bigger and thicker than the previous nano. I wouldn't buy this one if i previously owned a nano and thats the truth. And it may sit better in your hand but the current nano can fit perfectly in a toddler's hand this thing wont be logical.
It could be another rumor that has the words mixed up. Maybe the nano and the classic are getting a redesign to the chassis as well as some other upgrades and this is what it'll look like roughly. This is probably a picture of the ipod classic.

SneakerFiend

Hello Apple, Put the screen dead center and a click wheel on either side of the screen and you have a cool new product for gaming and music (oh yea, and all that other stuff it does)
Note to self: make construction paper mock up and submit blurry out of focus photo to the world.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

@wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!: hmm i meant the device, the black border is not from the iphone und the ipod touch has nothing chrome on it...

ddink

I don't think thats the real thing
When I was in the middle east late last year I saw something almost identical to this
I'm not positive but I think its the same fake

UndeadOverlord

Guys, that looks SLIGHTLY curved. Certainly not as curved as Kevin suggested. So it might be passable.

However, how do we know that this is not one of those Chinese knockoffs?

Noobs-R-Us

@robpruitt: That's strange, because the iPod's display is larger than the Zune's.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

That does look a lot like my Zune. I think a lot of people who like the iPod software and feel better said, "but I wish it had the Zune screen". Steve Jobs heard our cries.

robpruitt

I hate the looks of this thing.

My favorite is still the second generation Nano.

jeffesaurusrex

Wow... my iPod picked a really good time to break...
My first gen nano got soaked in water, a water bottle in the same bag as it was blew up. I WANT THIS IPOD! IT IS MINE!!!

CCM333

@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge:

That's NOT what she said. =0}

yoshi

@mstolfe: To waterproof your iPod, check out H20 Audio:

[www.h2oaudio.com]

frigg

Just aswer me this apple, pleeeaseee !!
Is it so hard to put a built-in FM Reciever on the ipod ???
Comeee on ! ! !

Mannyatic

sorry for the typos. BTW

Faslane66

@Ruzzel26: I play COD 4 on mine through Boot Camp maxed out in the settings and it's faster than my PC, so what's the laugh for...People must not realize what boot camp does, I can play any Pc game through it, it's hardware too, not software based OS so it takes advantage of my 512GDDR2 Graphics Crad and looks sweet on my 24" monitor....seriously, you can turn your mac into a gaming machine using Boot Camp. you're better off having a mac you can throw a decent graohics card in (not sure about iMacs etc.), but my setup rocks!!!

Faslane66

@MICHAELSD: It's the opposite. Apple tries not to get their products leaked out with a vengeance, with multiple Dementors placed around unannounced products ready to suck the souls out of anyone who so much as brings a camera within 50 miles of a prototype. On the other hand, there's an army of Droogs that emerges around Apple event determined to uncover any crumb of information about forthcoming products, often at great personal risk to themselves.

It's an epic battle, and it plays itself out again and again. For every Apple spy shot that emerges, untold Droogs have lost their gullivers, and countless Dementors have feasted on their souls.

Because it's Apple, the sacrifice is justified. I mean, just look at that picture! That's the new Nano!!! It's tapered, like an iPhone!!! Now look away, and wait for your breathing and pulse to return to normal.

Needless to say, for any other company, there's simply not the same interest, no army of Droogs, no need for Dementors. Unannounced products sneak out all the time, but no one's pulse ever elevated to stroke-inducing levels by gazing at them, and no one's soul ever got sucked out of their gulliver by posting photos of, say, an unannounced Zojirushi rice cooker, on their blog.

frigg

@Ephemera:

Heard of Boot Camp? I play Call Of Duty 4 every few days on my Mac Pro and it rules, everything is jacked up all the way in the settings/texturing etc. and it playes 110% better than my actual PC. So YES, the MAc def. can be a gaming machine. I play FEAR, HALO, COD4, etc. etc. etc. on it through Boot Camp, NOT Parallels or VM, those are software based and run very slow for gaming. but Boot Camp Rules!!!

Faslane66

@CCM333: haha my iPod touch feel in the pool last monday! they should really come out with a waterproof iPod...either way we both have pretty good timing.

mstolfe

Engadget had it first. Fail. Again. Stop following. Lead. Lead I tell you!

nobodyzhome

Hope the touch egts some rounded edges, always thought the edges were too sharp.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

Why all the commotion about this?

cowpop

@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge: except not

33cbg2113

*cough cough* Zune *cough cough*

33cbg2113

Fake. Look at the screen lighting, the pixels don't match up... and the box's lighting looks fake as hell, like a simple vectored circle gradient.

freakerz

@33cbg2113: Funnily enough, when the Zune slim first came out I was going *cough cough* iPod Nano *cough cough*.

The cycle never ends.

CJCS

iPod touch or GTFO

e-friend

Looks like one of the first gen ipod. O well, im going to wait a few days and then get my free ipod touch with a macbook.

cskelldog

@Faslane66: Current iMacs can play these games just fine. Seriously, the only Macs that have questionable gaming capability are the Macbooks and Mac Minis. All of the others have discrete graphics that are good enough to game on, despite what others might tell you.

Also, fuck Crysis. There I said it.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

I'm pretty sure it takes more than 2 years for a shape/style to become Retro/cool..

Well guys, we've come as far forward as we can in this industry.. let's start going backwards.. it'll be fun!

Sexpun Tocome

@The Real 31:

Dude!!! Zune looks like iPod. Just live with it.

vgart

@sheepdip: "iPod, Dukes of Hazzard Edition"
Mmmm, Applefied, orangey, hood sliding goodness. I'll take two, please.

GTBruiser

@Faslane66:

I agree... you get the best of both worlds. Plus, my experience is Windows runs much better on a Mac and in some cases outperforms Leopard.

yoshi

Why can't spyshots ever be in focus?

teexcue

@ddink: Oh. I see. I think it's just a first-gen iPhone, and the chrome is just catching the light in a way that produces the black appearance.

wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!

@MICHAELSD:
ArakniD:It has an accelerometer in it too
:-)
MICHAELSD MICHAELSD:
@ArakniD: ****py trolling is ****py trolling ;).
If you're being serious, what makes you say that?

The fact that Apple wouldn't make a widescreen going vertically if you couldnt turn it horizontally, have the ipod detect that turn, and be able to watch a video in widescreen.

of course.

ArakniD

@ArakniD: Why would you say it has an accelerometer in it?

Leonard Nimrod

That Burn orange is... hot. Curvature on the sides may make it slippery.

mergedwarrior

For those complaining that Apple's industrial design of late is stale or not revolutionary enough, consider this- The current 'squat Nano' is basically a square and this and older Nano's are oblong- now how many times can you reinvent the square or oblong!

jimbowyer

Wake me up when apple decides to add actual features to the iPod rather than just changing its shape. I'm so not excited about this... yawn.

berribrand

I post something about this every 12 to 24 hours, but this time, I'll say it with more attitude. The important thing about the new Nano design is not what it looks like or how much the Nano and Zune are similar (for obvious reasons). The important thing is the internal volume compared with the overall dimensions.

With the "fat" Nano, it was pretty clear, I hope, that there was pretty much no space inside other than hardware components: circuit board, control scheme, flash memory, i/o ports, and probably a molded battery. The reason why the new, longer Nano is subliminally confusing is not because it looks like the 2G Nano (or the Zune) but because it looks like it has a significantly different internal hardware design. The innards are where the stuff is. What in hell is Apple going to do with the outside that is going to tip anyone off to anything about what it does? Do you want a hand-crank on the side, or a permanently affixed sticker that says "Intel Inside" or something? The iPod has a screen, a connector, a headphone jack, and a control wheel. It's been like that pretty much since it came out. Do people look at a picture of the outside of a new car and say, "Oh, it has doors, windows, and wheels...AGAIN"? Maybe you do, but I don't.

The new Nano has an internal wifi antenna. I'm putting myself way out there to make this bold, unexciting claim. Please stop saying it looks like the Zune, or whatever. The Nano and the Zune look similar BECAUSE THEY ARE BASICALLY THE SAME THING. Jesus christ. If you want to find a never before seen way of combining a screen, controls, and an audio port with some flash memory and a battery, go for it. If the Nano has a wifi antenna, then you can say that the Nano and the Zune both have wifi antennas. Big deal.

Seriously, some of you people and what you say... you would be terrible doctors. "He looks about the same on the outside as before, so he's probably fine." OMG.

cobaltage

that is ugly as hell, i miss the old black and white nanos. screw metallic colors and odd screen shapes

jamesnaj1023

Isn't Kevin Rose's a mockup though? Supporting this is that his picture looked like it had the headphone jack on top and this one clearly has it on bottom.

videoCWK

"thankfully, it's much, much prettier and Apple-y"??

No wonder you blokes get get caned for being one-eyed apple fanboys.

I do like the new shape though. but i think they have definitly taken a step back by deciding to icnrease the size by such a factor.

El_Guappo

Apple is just up to date with fashion isn't it? Here comes a year of skinny anorexic-looking gadgets.

(If this is by anyway real, Apple's lawyer would have Gizmodo pull this off days ago, so, We'll see.....)

123james

*cough* fake *cough*
scuse me

Pwnage

This is fake.. Look at the photoshopped "light glares" on the right of the case, and where is the reflection from the LCD screen? Finally why is it when they show these "spy" shots they are always blurry---this is a big time fake.

kingchorizo

@Leonard Nimrod: "The front is curved glass, it's the "thinnest iPod ever", has an enhanced user interface plus an Accelerometer."

Told you people.
Accelerometer

ArakniD