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(First, if this has been speculated some where else, I apologize.)
I have been using the iPhone since the second day it came out. Like many, I was a skeptic of the non-physical keyboard but have come to really like it. I have also been a big proponent of a very thin and light Notebook computer. I was thinking last night, could Apple produce, say, a 10-13" flat tablet screen with no keyboard and make a very thin MacBook Pro (ala iThin)? You could really see the possibilities: 1. Very thin: maybe 1/2" thick 2. 16:9 layout 3. Easily 80 GB (same as current video iPod) 4. Light, maybe 1-1.5 lbs 5. Perhaps add a pointer pen like they do for Microsoft's Tablet OS This could be the "Silver Bullet" for travelers like me. Not sure on the battery issue since I am no engineer. I was flipping a channel on the TV last night and saw an old Star Trek episode and got to thinking the future could be here very soon. Now that I got a job, I can buy more Apple products! |
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rams it
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Seattle
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I don't think Apple will ever make a tablet.
Subnotebook perhaps (and hopefully), but not a tablet. |
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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10"-13" is too big. 7"-9" would be just about right.
I know we all like to hate on UMPCs here, but I also have heard a lot of people here talking about how much they wanted what was essentially an Apple UMPC (although they never called it that). They may be a niche market, but I still think UMPCs have a brighter future than full-sized tablets (although, ideally, they'd both have keyboards, as well). I would love a "PaperMac" or whatever. (That's my punny name for it because it's paperback-sized, paper-thin, and you can write on it.) 7 inches, $799, runs Mac OS X but has an optional iPhone-like interface too. (OMG, it's like the rebirth of At Ease!) It'd be in between the iPhone and the MacBook in specs, screen size, and price. I think if Apple introduced the "PaperMac," and maybe a 15" MacBook, they would have a virtually gapless portable line - stretching all the way from the iPod shuffle to the 17" MacBook Pro with no major gaps in between. (Obviously, people would still want an 11" MacBook mini, and a 13" MacBook Pro, and stuff like that.) I think it's only appropriate that Apple's portable line grows some as they become an increasingly notebook-focused. Unfortunately, I think the iPhone is the closest to an Apple tablet/UMPC that we'll get. And, really, with phones as powerful as the iPhone, the need for UMPCs might be, well, shrinking. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Seattle
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What exactly would you use a UMPC for, really? When it comes to handheld computing, the iPhone is about as large as anything should get. Any bigger and you're stepping into the realm of: "Why the hell aren't I just carrying a much more useful laptop?" It's possible that the iPhone will morph more into a Mac-like device, beginning with 3rd party software development. At that point a UMPC or Tablet would be redundant. You had me at asl ....... |
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Avast!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: New York?
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I want the rumored "extremely thin" MBP. But I think the lack of physical keys on a laptop is a far different thing than a lack on a phone. I think many of the comments here are about to say as much.
"How could you falter / when you're the Rock of Gibralter? / I had to get off the boat so I could walk on water. / This ain't no tall order. / This is nothing to me. / Difficult takes a day. / Impossible takes a week." |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melbourne
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Uber-thin subnotebook FTW! I'm almost convinced we will see this from Apple in the near future.
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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I could see this, though as a monitor rather than a laptop - make a 17" widescreen that is touchable as a cinema display. Put it in 3/4 glass that juts up from a base with all the ports. Leave an inch of clear glass around it...I'd put that on my coffeetable.
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