The translations are a little sketchy but the ChinaTimes is basically saying that in October, Apple will launch a $800, 10-inch tablet. Most of this information has been published before so it isn't certain whether or not this is a rehash of that information or from new sources. The biggest question at this point is which OSX will it run? Will it be the Mac OS, the iPhone OS or some hybrid? The iPod launches are usually in September so a iPod platform device would indicate some deviation. Also, Apple's tablet patents seem to indicate that they are working on a full MacOS tablet.
Foxconn, Wintek, Dynapack are all named as suppliers of parts. Did we mention "EE-1044-IN-W5C"?
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Bring it on....
Can't wait!!!!!!
I bet this would use a
I bet this would use a "bootable SD card" to install standard Mac OS X on it. I don't agree with the article that said the MacBook is losing an optical reader anytime soon. This is something that won't be having an optical reader and makes a lot more sense to have a bootable SD card and would explain why apple went out of its way to write an article on that.
I agree and hope you are
I agree and hope you are right. Bootable SD is the way to go.
Apple's designers plan to break my fingers
I am not looking forward to this "MacBook Touch".
According to the patent drawing I will have to have my palm surgically removed and my index finger broken in two places in order to operate the device.
However I am a massive fanboy and will of course queue up to have this Apple Procedure. I wonder if they will lock me into a medical plan for 2 years.
You are an idiot! Apple does
You are an idiot! Apple does not lock into any sort of plans, for your information that's AT&T.
Re: Surgery
Haha. Those crippled patent app hands are the best!
Apple's designers plan to break my fingers
I am not looking forward to this "MacBook Touch".
According to the patent drawing I will have to have my palm surgically removed and my index finger broken in two places in order to operate the device.
However I am a massive fanboy and will of course queue up to have this Apple Procedure. I wonder if they will lock me into a medical plan for 2 years.
nice hands
Looks like E.T. is pawing at it in FIG.23D
i think this might be the
i think this might be the next ipod touch ? what do you guys think of such a combination?
could be sold as a really awesome ipod or as a netbook that youd finally really like
would create a more distinguishable line between the iphone and the ipod touch
Usually you guys get the jump
Usually you guys get the jump on this kind of thing. You must be hearing things by now.
multi-touch tablet
If this is released as a "netbook" it wouldn't actually be one, it would just be the new MacBook or the new MacBook Air "mini," so all talk about what form factor it will be in is kind of stupid IMO.
You'd also have to be similarly dumb to think that if this is a netbook or tablet, that it will run "regular" OS-X in any way shape or form. While people will hack the desktop version of OS-X onto it almost immediately, it won't ship that way and it would be the dumbest move ever for Apple to do so. People should drag their minds *out* of the 1990's and think about things a bit before they make such silly pronouncements.
Tablets with "full" desktop OS's on them have been tried for years and failed miserably. Why would Apple release a multi-touch device (the one thing we *do* know about the thing), that uses a non-multi-touch OS? Why would they expand their hot new platform by using a form factor that has similarly failed? Or (again) an OS that's simply not suited to it if the form factor is new? Why is document editing and local storage the only thing missing from the platform so far? If the Newton and the eMate are the only two products Apple has ever released in this category previously, again ... what are the odds that the full desktop OS is going to be on this thing?
they phased out the "macbook"
they phased out the "macbook" for this new breed of macbooks
Why the MacTouch would be ideal for Apple --- and us.
back in may, I posted a prediction. it still just fits in what we might have learned from today's rumors:
apple's next new product will be spectacular, it will define a new category of products and - most importantly - it will cannibalize neither the iPhone business, nor the MacBook sales. it will be the next, the fourth pillar of Apple's success.
it will be a MacTouch.
- a 10 " tablet, nine times the screen size and resolution of the iPhone, resembling the iPhone from the looks an being roughly as thick
- thus immediately working with every existing iPhone app
- combining everything from the iPhone (3G, WiFI, Bluetooth, AppStore, iTunes synching) with everything from the mac (iLife and iWork will work with new preinstalled specialized versions for touch control) - OS X Snow Leopard is the key - that's why they focus on performance.
- it will be touch controlled with a large visual/virtual keyboard, but of course the existing sleek Apple wireless Keyboard will work immediately using Bluetooth
- it will have 1 or 2 (micro)USB-ports making it the ideal device for storing, presenting and basic editing of photos and videos while on holiday, for watching videos with the family (for eventually it will be possible to import our DVDs in iTunes just like our CDs ...)
- it will have a front camera and microphone for video-conferencing or for putting your face into games or for making fun photos with photo booth
- it will be THE new gaming device for groups, playing all the famous board games on a screen large enough lying in front of you and sitting on every side of it (like chess with touch control and animation)
- it will be THE new book reader (though i have some doubts concerning readability in sunlight and battery life when compared to e-ink devices like the kindle), especially making it possible to produce "books" with integrated video and sound content
- it will have a stand to work as a notebook screen when typing with the keyboard or to use as small display to watch videos or digital tv or for presentations (maybe a protective cover doubles as a stand when flipped over ..)
- it will have a bluetooth remote control, reasonably good speakers and - hopefully - a SD-card reader built in
- it will be gorgeous, lightweight and affordable without being cheap and crappy like the windows netbooks
- it will be priced between the iPhone/ iPod touch and the MacBook - let me guess: somewhere between $ 499 with 8 GB and without iWork and $ 799 with 32 or even 64 GB and including iWork
- it will be THE product to present your creative work on the go, to watch video and photos in a group, to work on documents with basic editing while sitting in the bus or on the plane, to check and write emails and much more
- we will be allowed to use our existing apple software on this product without an extra fee
- it will work and synchronise with iTunes on a PC, thus being the entrance to the real mac world for old time PC-customers (they simply will want to buy an OS X-system next time a new notebook or desktop will be needed)
- it can be used like the iPhone, but it can't replace it (because of size), it can be used like a MacBook but it can't replace it (because of lack of keyboard, processing speed, lack of large storing space, limited display resolution, limited connectivity)
- it is simply the perfect companion in between.
- it will be revolutionary
- it will be presented in a special event this summer by Steve Jobs, celebrating his return to the public
- it will be available in time for the holiday season
what do you think?
MacTouch.........
.......FTW Suckaassss!!!! :P
Give me some iTablet!
http://macslate.blogspot.com/
That's all I've got to say
Guestures?
Looks to me like the patent depicts using five fingers to move a window?
that'd work pretty well. for smaller windows you could use the top bar like OS X does now, but on the tablet for larger windows just out all your fingers anywhere within a window to quickly drag it.