The image experts are out
'd have to agree; the real tip-off is the space between "Power" and "Book"... (i.e. it reads "Power Book" not "PowerBook" as it should). Great piece of wishful thinking, though...
Uhh, look closer (or, even better, open it in Photoshop and blow it up 6000%, like I did). The "r" blur touches the "B" blur, while the "k" and the "D" are seperated by whitespace.
Although, the real giveaway is the white background. It's uneven as if a paintbrush were used to fill in the gray spots (albeit very poorly)
That's the hallmark of JPEG artifacts. An image this small, compressed that agressively, is going to have ratty spots all over.
This reminds me of when the eBay Red Motherboard came out- people found green spots in the JPEG artifacts and immediately started yelling, "Fake!" Even worse, they jumped all over those gorgeous Cube pics, explaining how the lighting was "wrong."
In a situation like this, you can't reliably look to image artifacts as proof of a hoax. Better to attack it on the basis of its viability as a product.
As for me- I'd buy it- to clean up image artifacts while I'm sitting on the subway