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What is the Ultimate Role of the Apple Tablet?

Rocketman said:
Even though Macrumors concatonates news from other sources, how it is presented is an editorial choice. By leaving that article as a headliner over the weekend the editors assured a large fraction of their readership saw or emphasized it.

Macrumors makes its revenues off advertising and sales commissions. The most interesting commercial I heard recently was for a radio station where they were selling a product directly on the commercial.

I suspect that net of delivery and production costs, NYT to WSJ could make a pretty good profit off $0.99 per issue vs. the higher newsstand price. All traditional advertising would stay in place and the form factor would facilitate new media ads as well.

The majority of meaningful revenue from old media is from display advertising. Your eyeball is more important to them than to you in terms of shifting dollars.

Rocketman
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What are you talking about?! The third and fourth paragraphs are completely irrelevant to what I wrote. But don't say that the reason behind four days without new thread is that "By leaving that article as a headliner over the weekend the editors assured a large fraction of their readership saw or emphasized it."

By the way, over 1000 posts about the point of something that hasn't come out yet... not too bad. We need lives!
 
Lenovo IdeaPad U1

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/lenovo-ideapad-u1-hybrid-hands-on-and-impressions/

Engadget got to play with the new Lenovo Hybrid laptop/tablet thingy. I must say, Lenovo really gets it :

- All the "portability" of a tablet (that fits in those G-unit jeans' pockets)
- All the power of a laptop
- Any ergonomics you want (laptop mode or tablet mode)
- And the ultimate role ?

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Solitaire :

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Too bad for Apple, the Macbook Touch hybrid idea is out the window now. :rolleyes:

Seriously though, that looks like a great all around product. Rubberized palmrest and rounded edges definitely gives it a iBook look, except in black and red.

If Apple has something like this in store, it's going to be worth 1000$. Though I really doubt Apple would be happy if Lenovo "got there first" with the idea of such an hybrid.
 
AidenShaw said:
Have you tried Solitaire under Windows 7 - it really is a game changer!


;)

(Seriously though, the eye-candy folks did tweak the new Solitaire on Windows 7. Watch what happens when you win a game....)
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I tried Solitaire on an HP TouchSmart demo unit. My arm was tired after a few minutes but it was fun. The Lenovo Hybrid has some of my interest but I've been looking at the Edge.

I do like how the web page showed back up in seconds when you removed the display from the Lenovo Hybrid. Lenovo is really making a showing this year at CES. They haven't forgotten about their ThinkPad lines either.

I think the ultimate design would be having the display still tethered to the primary computer wirelessly. You wouldn't have any loss of power but wireless transmission of video and the response times does throw in some limitations.
 
AidenShaw said:
(Seriously though, the eye-candy folks did tweak the new Solitaire on Windows 7. Watch what happens when you win a game....)
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Since Solitaire is an important part of the typical office Windows drone (no joke) day, MS was smart to jazz it up.

As a Windows drone yourself, it's not surprising you know the winning animation in Solitaire. Me, I'm too busy trying to interpret SharePoint error messages to fire up Solitaire.

One more reason to upgrade from XP to 7, IT Nazis. Sweeter Solitaire.
 
LagunaSol said:
Since Solitaire is an important part of the typical office Windows drone (no joke) day, MS was smart to jazz it up.

As a Windows drone yourself, it's not surprising you know the winning animation in Solitaire. Me, I'm too busy trying to interpret SharePoint error messages to fire up Solitaire.

One more reason to upgrade from XP to 7, IT Nazis. Sweeter Solitaire.
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OK, we all get it already. You love Mac and don't like Windows. Good for you.
 
hitekalex said:
OK, we all get it already. You love Mac and don't like Windows. Good for you.
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Since some members feel entitled to talk endlessly about how great Windows is, I feel equally entitled to talk about how great it isn't.

You're welcome to scroll on by.
 
LagunaSol said:
Since some members feel entitled to talk endlessly about how great Windows is....
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Too bad that your allergy to all-things-Windows doesn't let you see the humour in poking fun at Solitaire - yes, Windows folks enjoy the Solitaire jokes too. (Although, I must admit that I sometimes unwind by playing it when I have some short periods of dead time - which is how I noticed the enhancements in Win7.)

In addition, Solitaire used to be a good graphics benchmark for Windows systems. It was on every display system anywhere, and all you had to do was to win a hand. If the graphics card couldn't do the "card waterfall" animation smoothly, one should worry. (Not so good anymore, since even a GMA950 is over-the-top for Solitaire.)
 
MisterMe said:
How dare you come to a Mac fan forum and talk about how great Macs are ;)
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Seriously. The Apple Hating Horde (not referring to hitekalex) around here these days makes you feel like a stranger in your own town.

Which I imagine is their intent.
 
LagunaSol said:
Seriously. The Apple Hating Horde (not referring to hitekalex) around here these days makes you feel like a stranger in your own town.
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Why, thank you for not including me into "Apple Hating Horde".

But come on.. this incessant Windows bashing is so.. 2003. All modern OS's are pretty decent these days (even Ubuntu!).. Can't we all (computers) just get along? ;)
 
hitekalex said:
But come on.. this incessant Windows bashing is so.. 2003. All modern OS's are pretty decent these days (even Ubuntu!).. Can't we all (computers) just get along? ;)
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Some of us don't bash Windows on the basis of some level of decency in their technological level. Some us actually have moral opposition to the way Microsoft does business and the way Windows was forced unto the world.

It has nothing to do with things like NTFS or the Trident HTML engine and everything to do with Microsoft just being Microsoft. The sooner they go away, the sooner the industry can try to catch up to the lost years of innovation they suffered.
 
hitekalex said:
Why, thank you for not including me into "Apple Hating Horde".

But come on.. this incessant Windows bashing is so.. 2003. All modern OS's are pretty decent these days (even Ubuntu!).. Can't we all (computers) just get along? ;)
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I'd say you're new here, but you registered in 2008. Don't visit often, do you? :D
 
zacman said:
Will MS announce/show Courier tomorrow at their keynote? CES/January really is interesting this year
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Yes, but it will be called the Comic Sans and will be released "sometime in 2010."

I can't wait to see Stinky Ballmer's latest dance moves. "GIVE IT UP FOR ME!!!"
 
AidenShaw said:
In addition, Solitaire used to be a good graphics benchmark for Windows systems. It was on every display system anywhere, and all you had to do was to win a hand. If the graphics card couldn't do the "card waterfall" animation smoothly, one should worry.
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Pfft, I can't get smooth window movement animation when copying files to a network location in XP on a brand-new HP laptop (employer-issued). Should I worry?

Gotta love the endless window replication trick. I guess playing around with the messed up graphics gives you something to do while waiting for your files to copy (since the estimated time shown is never within the correct century).
 
LagunaSol said:
Pfft, I can't get smooth window movement animation when copying files to a network location in XP on a brand-new HP laptop (employer-issued). Should I worry?

Gotta love the endless window replication trick. I guess playing around with the messed up graphics gives you something to do while waiting for your files to copy (since the estimated time shown is never within the correct century).
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Get a SSD.
 
LagunaSol said:
Pfft, I can't get smooth window movement animation when copying files to a network location in XP on a brand-new HP laptop (employer-issued). Should I worry?

Gotta love the endless window replication trick. I guess playing around with the messed up graphics gives you something to do while waiting for your files to copy (since the estimated time shown is never within the correct century).
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Ha, there is your issue. Your statements only make it obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about. (my old geforce 6200, on a AGP 4X bus, yes, could play Vista's Solitaire and Hold'em Texas perfectly fine).

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Some people have obvious cognitive biases that make them unable to have reasonable or objective opinions about some things. The case is so particularly noticeable when it comes to brand loyalism; Xbox vs PS3, Mac vs PC, Toyota vs Honda, etc, etc. Most people are able to recognize this biases, and they realize that it affect their opinions and behaviors, thus they are able to actually think twice, and try to see things in a more reasonable way. They are able to reach conclusions that actually... make sense.

Saying "MS made me suffer for 40h/week for X years" is not reasonable at all. This is primarily the reason why some people, and some statements cannot be taken seriously.
 
cumanzor said:
Ha, there is your issue. Your statements only make it obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about. (my old geforce 6200, on a AGP 4X bus, yes, could play Vista's Solitaire and Hold'em Texas perfectly fine).
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I know exactly what I'm talking about. First of all, I'm not talking about Solitaire or "Hold'em Texas" (whatever that is), I'm talking about the XP graphics bug where everything locks up when you're copying files remotely and you can fill your screen with window shells. Actually, XP often likes to lock up entirely while it's busy copying files. Can't seem to handle the multitasking thing sometimes.

Happens on my brand new laptop, happened on the laptop before it, and the one before that.

cumanzor said:
Saying "MS made me suffer for 40h/week for X years" is not reasonable at all.
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It's entirely reasonable when you're the one who's had to suffer with their craptastic software that long.

And it certainly gives me far more credibility when I talk about Windows than most of the tools that talk smack about Mac but have never spent more than 10 minutes on one.
 
LagunaSol said:
Seriously. The Apple Hating Horde (not referring to hitekalex) around here these days makes you feel like a stranger in your own town.

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I cannot agree more. I frequent several Mac fan sites. Each has its problems. MacRumors problem is that is has been overrun by Windows fanboys who try to control what Mac users say about their favorite OS. It really make you wonder:
  • Are there no Windows fansites?
  • If there are, then is MacRumors.com such much better than they are willing to tolerate the Mac fans here?
  • Are they here just to make us as miserable as Windows makes them?
Inquiring minds want to know!
 
My take on the Tablet/slate

1. It will be ARM and therefore not run OS X/windows but rather an OS X based OS like the iPhone OS.
2. The device can link wirelessly to a desktop or laptop for more computing power via X-grid and access to files/media.
3. You will be able to connect and use your desktop/laptop from the tablet via VNC.
4. You will be able to connect via USB2/Firewire 800 for faster network connection to desktop/laptop.
5. Apple will release a limited X-grid server for windows users to add CPU power to their tablet.

Future additions:
1. Apple will allow you to tap into the GPU of your desktop to run gfx faster through lightpeak connection with an upgraded X-grid tied into their OpenCL stack.
2. Apple will provide an X-windows type protocol for running OS X apps remotely from a mac with the UI displayed and interacted from the tablet screen.

I think that technologies like X-grid and light peak will give you the ability to use the tablet as either an add-on/terminal for your main computer at home.

You will still be able to use it as a note taking and web research tool and e-reader when out and about but when you need heavy processing power, you will have to take it back home or have a fast enough network connection to connect back using a "back to my mac" feature.
Ps. Most things point to iPhone games running on the device with small changes.
 
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