Am I really the only person who sees this as an amazing idea? I mean think about it for a second, all the power of an iPad baked into the 11" Air footprint! You just plop the iPad logic board (including the LTE chip) into the Air case and boom!, you've got a productivity powerhouse ready to go. No USB or card reader, just the lightning port and headphone jack like an iPad. That way you could use all of the same accessories as any other person with an iPad to include the card reader or battery packs.
Sure, Apple would need to tweak the software to recognize a track pad, but really how hard is that since the emulator already does this? If you had the same battery that is in the Air now, just running the Arm chip, you would still get all day battery life and then some. Most people who use their iPad for word-processing or blogging or what have you, use a separate keyboard, this would have the keyboard always there!
The biggest advantage of the iPad for productivity work is that it lets you focus on one task at a time as all apps are full screen, all the time. This way you would get all of that benefit as well as one of the best keyboards and track pads in the industry. Sure, this would be in the same range as the 128GB iPad, a niche market, but isn't that what Apple likes to do? Completely dominate a niche market?
Sure, Apple would need to tweak the software to recognize a track pad, but really how hard is that since the emulator already does this? If you had the same battery that is in the Air now, just running the Arm chip, you would still get all day battery life and then some. Most people who use their iPad for word-processing or blogging or what have you, use a separate keyboard, this would have the keyboard always there!
The biggest advantage of the iPad for productivity work is that it lets you focus on one task at a time as all apps are full screen, all the time. This way you would get all of that benefit as well as one of the best keyboards and track pads in the industry. Sure, this would be in the same range as the 128GB iPad, a niche market, but isn't that what Apple likes to do? Completely dominate a niche market?
