A picture of a supposed case of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro leaks, with details that are not very encouraging

Just yesterday we commented that WWDC could be the stage for a massive update of the Mac line. Still according to rumors, the new MacBooks Pro would undergo a major overhaul, abandoning the optical drive and gaining a thinner housing.

However, an alleged image that appeared today in the WeiPhone (Google Translate) wants to deny that:

Alleged case of a new 13-inch MacBook Pro

It would belong to a box of a new 13-inch MacBook Pro and, according to specifications, the machine would come equipped with a 2.5GHz Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, 500GB of disk space (HDD, no SSD), screen 1280 Ă— 800 pixels (no Retina), Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU, optical drive (?), a Thunderbolt input, a FireWire 800 port, two USB 3.0 and SDXC card input, in addition to, of course, input / output audio, Bluetooth 4.0, etc.

If the image is really true, just like the iPad, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro would arrive heavier than the current one (0.02kg difference). In addition, the cashier bears the inscription “Mac OS X” instead of “OS X”, which could indicate that the Mountain Lion will still take a while to be launched with the arrival of the new desktop operating system, Apple stopped the use of “Mac” and started using only “OS X” to promote it.

of course everything can be false, but the The Verge proved that the barcode matches the number 826-9882-A, highlighted in the box. It is also worth remembering that the first Macs equipped with Thunderbolt technology leaked in the same way, through images of boxes of MacBooks Pro (1, 2).

Of all this, what calls me more attention to the maintenance of the optical drive. Would it make sense for Apple to keep it on the MacBook Pro, since even the Mac mini has stopped using it? For these and others, until Apple announces the new machines, we will face everything as a rumor but that is strange, yes. : – /