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Analyst Believes Apple Will Unveil Netbooks at Macworld
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Me for being a realist or Schiller for being a downer?
Shlller, my friend. I have no quarrel with thee. (Nor a quarrel with Shiller... for now...)
Innovating like how? Cramming a powerful computer into a tiny frame, creating the first useable touch screen phone, developing software that can utilise multi cores and GPU's in every day purposes, developing an app store model that has sold god knows how many millions of apps in less than 6 months. Creating the first financially viable way of making unibody computers. There expenditure on R&D, and the amount of patents they file speaks more than words.
What were they innovating back in the day that they are not innovating now? They have been concentrating on thinness and form factor ever since Jobs returned with the iMac, and the Powerbook in 2001 that was 1" thin. You're welcome to go back to the mid 90's if you like, in the land of a million and one different product models, and OS 7 with no pre-emptive multitasking, or protected memory.
If you think aesthetics are unimportant then you are backing the wrong horse.
Would you rather have iPhone for an hour and a half?
(If I had to choose, it'd be Snow Leopard.)
iphone != netbook!
and i have an acer aspire one with mac os x on it, and it's quite nice - hardly slow at all, esp. for what they're for
and i have an acer aspire one with mac os x on it, and it's quite nice - hardly slow at all, esp. for what they're for
not all netbooks have CD (optical) drives. I'll take a byte here. It is from I think a Korean company. It is the size of a netbook, but I think the price throws it out of the newbook range.
think of it as a MBA in the size of the netbook with a built in opticle.
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you mean like this? the Canova that is supposed to be in manufacturing for 2010 delivery?
http://www.pclaunches.com/notebooks/canova_dual_touch_screen_laptop.php
interesting. so many companies jumping into the netbook and nettablet arena. and Apple said they don't see themselves entering into the tablet/toush screen or netbook market. Sounds to me like other companies see the value and these are gonna sell pretty high volume.
I am glad to see it looks to have a real 2-button trackpad. I finally got to see a Asus EE PC at target. that rocker-bar for a two-button track bad seemed awefly flimsy. I could not pop it off or bend it, but it felt like something that after so many clicks it may just break.
APPLE GET ON THE BALL... TOUCH/TABLET NETBOOKS seem to be where it is at. keep th price reasonable for this economy and bam the sales will flow.
Right now, your intel one is meant for kids (according to article), but it looks rugged like I would not have to baby my luggage when traveling. so many times I wanted to use my laptop on a plane, but the cramped space to get it out of the bag, work with it, stash it somewhere during snacks, then try to put it away.
My wife cannot fly anymore, so atleast on the train you have a little more room to move around. Not much, but a little. still a full OS X powered netbook sized (coupled with a tablet build). oh yea, easy manuvering. Still hoping that since Apple hasn't come out with it, that I get my MSI wind. so far that i about the only netbook with good specs and a good price for which there are ample reviews to read.
you mean like this? the Canova that is supposed to be in manufacturing for 2010 delivery?
http://www.pclaunches.com/notebooks/canova_dual_touch_screen_laptop.php
That is cool.
Does form follow function, or are you just reacting to its strange form factor?
I think its the most functional and adaptive design I've ever seen. With the second screen and the accelerometer, it reconfigures itself to be optimal to the current use. The design can also be scaled up or scaled down.
I'm skeptical. Have you actually used or seen one in real life? Unless this double-touchscreen interface is extremely well implemented, it could be little more than a gimmick, more infuriating than functional. We also have to know that it would be quite expensive to produce, and would chomp batteries.
Typing on that touch screen will be far more annoying than typing on a netbook's 90%-scale keyboard.
And shervieux, I don't think that machine counts as a netbook. Certainly not at $1300+. I'd categorize that as an ultraportable, almost a tablet PC.
I've seen something similar but a little smaller and with a single screen from this tech company out of the San Francisco Bay area called Apple.
I would not call the iPhone even remotely similar, if only because (as we should know) "the interface is King." You don't just slap together a couple of touchscreen displays, make it look cool and call it done. Making these concepts work takes sweating a lot of details. This is something Apple is exceptionally good at. Them and who else?
I don't think Apple would slap a couple of touch screens together and call it a day. The Canova machine was used to get a rough idea of what a theoretical dual touchscreen Apple netbook would look like.
No doubt about it the notebook lineup needs to be fixed. I do not think they are going to add something new though. MBA needs a smaller foot print, MB needs something in the $899-999 slot the whitebooks are all overstock and will run out soon, MBP needs to be a pro notebook again.
But I will take a tablet too
But I will take a tablet too
No, Apple wouldn't -- but I'm hearing people say that the Canova design is something great simply on the basis of the way it looks. I care more about how it functions.
I really don't think that's going to happen. We aren't getting netbooks for a while because Apple ignores it's core users now
I don't know. They're pretty popular with the trendy consumer who is Apple's new core.