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Analyst: Apple Prepping February Tablet Production Ramp Ahead of March or April Release

Psychmike said:
1) Does it have Bluetooth connectivity for keyboards and mice?
2) Does it sync for connectivity when WiFi isn't available?
3) Does it have a plastic or aluminum back?
4) Care to share any photos you may have taken?
5) Does it run OSX?
6) SDD? Walking around with a standard hard drive is bound to cause problems.
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Does it have Blu-Ray, a G5 chip and full OSX 10.6 with Finder? Useless if not? That's what I keep hearing here . . . .

:)

Rocketman
 
PS I find your statement that it comes with a 250GB hard drive and 2GB of RAM not very believable. This thing is going to be highly portable and a standard hard drive is more likely to fail with repeated movements or the starts and stops associated with protection. 2GB of RAM? That's pretty low considering the relatively cheap price of RAM and the huge benefit more RAM gives to responsiveness.
 
Psychmike said:
1) Does it have Bluetooth connectivity for keyboards and mice?
2) Does it sync for connectivity when WiFi isn't available?
3) Does it have a plastic or aluminum back?
4) Care to share any photos you may have taken?
5) Does it run OSX?
6) SDD? Walking around with a standard hard drive is bound to cause problems.
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Plug in keyboard that almost turns it into a desktop when you use the flap to stand it up. Plastic back. I will upload a photo tomorrow. Runs OSX with some modifitcations for tablet. Easy to carry
 
Apple Beta Geek said:
Plug in keyboard that almost turns it into a desktop when you use the flap to stand it up. Plastic back. I will upload a photo tomorrow. Runs OSX with some modifitcations for tablet. Easy to carry
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Plastic back? Scratchtastic! Apple: Please stop torturing all your OCD customers. Ah well; all the accessory makers can rejoice in providing users with cases, covers, and sleeves.

My bet is that the tablet is going to have an all-aluminum case. Apple seems to be moving in that direction with unibody Macbook Pros and the new iMacs. I doubt that their flagship new product is going to come with a plastic case.

I have a hard time believing that Apple is going to release the product you describe. Traditional hard drive? No good for highly portable products. Apple is not going to want to deal with crashed drives. 2GB of RAM? Why slow down responsiveness when RAM is relatively cheap? Wired keyboard? Aren't they shipping the iMacs with Bluetooth keyboards? Why would they use a wired keyboard with their most portable computer?

I also have a hard time believing that Apple would let someone use their top secret product on an airplane. If they were THAT loose with their product testers, we'd be flooded with images and leaks by now.

At best, Apple may have sent you a test unit significantly different from the one they plan on releasing to evaluate a limited set of features. At worst, you are lying to such a great extent that your pants are in danger of combusting.

Can't wait to see that promised photo. My guess is that we never will or it will be so blurry or poorly exposed as to be useless. If I'm wrong, I will offer a heartfelt apology and buy you several beers should you ever pass through Toronto.

My guess is that Apple is going to release a $1,000+ computer tablet (not book reader) with a largish screen (at least 10" but 13" would be better for me), and full OS. At some point, they may release smaller and more limited products (iPod > iPod Shuffle, iPhone > iPod Touch) but the first one will be a halo product for the brand.

Take a 13" Macbook Pro, remove the screen and the keyboard, tack on a touchscreen, and give it a 128 or 256GB SDD. Offer 3G capability and subsidies down the road but keep the bar for buying it low at the beginning by not requiring data subscription. You would see people using these everywhere: reading on the train; sharing photos at a cafe; taking notes in lecture halls; and bringing notes to and from office meetings. I don't think this thing is going to be any smaller than 10".

Mike
 
The price doesn't suprise me. It just happens to be about the same as the Macbook. It's been a while since I've posted on this so I'll say what I've been saying again.

The tablet IS the next generation Macbook.

My $0.02.
 
Psychmike said:
Plastic back? Scratchtastic! Apple: Please stop torturing all your OCD customers. Ah well; all the accessory makers can rejoice in providing users with cases, covers, and sleeves.

My bet is that the tablet is going to have an all-aluminum case. Apple seems to be moving in that direction with unibody Macbook Pros and the new iMacs. I doubt that their flagship new product is going to come with a plastic case.

I have a hard time believing that Apple is going to release the product you describe. Traditional hard drive? No good for highly portable products. Apple is not going to want to deal with crashed drives. 2GB of RAM? Why slow down responsiveness when RAM is relatively cheap? Wired keyboard? Aren't they shipping the iMacs with Bluetooth keyboards? Why would they use a wired keyboard with their most portable computer?

I also have a hard time believing that Apple would let someone use their top secret product on an airplane. If they were THAT loose with their product testers, we'd be flooded with images and leaks by now.

At best, Apple may have sent you a test unit significantly different from the one they plan on releasing to evaluate a limited set of features. At worst, you are lying to such a great extent that your pants are in danger of combusting.

Can't wait to see that promised photo. My guess is that we never will or it will be so blurry or poorly exposed as to be useless. If I'm wrong, I will offer a heartfelt apology and buy you several beers should you ever pass through Toronto.

My guess is that Apple is going to release a $1,000+ computer tablet (not book reader) with a largish screen (at least 10" but 13" would be better for me), and full OS. At some point, they may release smaller and more limited products (iPod > iPod Shuffle, iPhone > iPod Touch) but the first one will be a halo product for the brand.

Take a 13" Macbook Pro, remove the screen and the keyboard, tack on a touchscreen, and give it a 128 or 256GB SDD. Offer 3G capability and subsidies down the road but keep the bar for buying it low at the beginning by not requiring data subscription. You would see people using these everywhere: reading on the train; sharing photos at a cafe; taking notes in lecture halls; and bringing notes to and from office meetings. I don't think this thing is going to be any smaller than 10".

Mike
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here ya go
 
I do not believe that Apple will release such a tablet without a proper OLED-screen. I mean, ramming a rusty fork into your eyeballs is way more fun than doing some serious reading over several hours on a LCD.
 
Just to add to the growing wish list:

It would be great if this new "Tablet" could act as a Bamboo-like input device for my iMac.
 
cmfilms said:
Just to add to the growing wish list:

It would be great if this new "Tablet" could act as a Bamboo-like input device for my iMac.
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It's unlikely that it would be pressure sensitive or accurate enough for that kind of stuff.
 
Eric S. said:
It wasn't much to see. It looked like a 17" iPhone/touch, the screen filled with about 50 (80?) app icons. Obviously fake.
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Here's what he posted. I don't know if the administrators removed his or not. But if someone removes this one, it was them.
 

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dave1812dave said:
There are plenty of fanbois to keep Apple from going under, but then again, just how much market share does Apple have of the computer market? Roughly 9% or so, right? Apple fans are very vocal, but the rest of us vote with our wallets, and we generally vote for non-Apple computers.
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Responding directly to this comment, you'd better study those wallets again. Over the last ten years, Apple has increased it's computer sales from a low of near 2% to, depending on the source you reference, somewhere between 8% and 12%, counting both laptops and desktops. Apple's seen sales growth, on average, more than 17% higher than any other company except Acer and Toshiba (netbooks.)
Over the last 8 years, Apple took MP3 players from a near-zero market to the iPod owning something over 70% of the market.
Over the last 3 years, Apple has taken the Smart phone out of the enterprise and currently holds something like 17% of the world smart phone market.

Yes, people vote with their wallets, and Apple now sells 5x more computers than they did just 10 years ago. Apple's stock has also risen to more than ten times what it sold for ten years ago. Maybe you don't like Apple's computers, but a lot of people do... including people who used to think Windows was the only real OS on the market.

Apple is building its market by producing items that are much easier to use, one way or another, than any existing competitor. They did it with the Mac, they did it with the iPod, iPhone, and now, very possibly, with the Tablet. We'll just have to see.
 
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