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I would love one of these just for my art apps. I wouldn't carry it around or use it for anything I normally do with my iphone or ipad.
Just having it with a full blown SBP, Photoshop etc and multi/full functioning stylus would be great.
Price would have to be right though, I wouldn't expect it to be cheap but I wouldn't pay an arm and a leg either.
 
Heh, what if there was an iPad the size of a bulletin board and with a modified iOS that you just leave up for multiple employees to use at once? Wouldn't be too useful except when Googling stuff together but would look amazingly pro.
 
Anyone suggesting OS X on a tablet is making the same mistake..

I agree. Maybe an iOS with more oomph than that of an iPhone or iPad, like another member said in a previous post. More or less an iPad that could run computer style programs, such as Adobe PS, with the same power and functionality.

I could see these bigger iPad's being useful in a business atmosphere, as people could use them as a device to do presentations on, among other things.
 
Enough Already

Oh not another touch device (but even bigger this time for increased waving of the arms). Ugh.

My poor fingers are already bloody stumps at the end of everyday. If you think about it, touch-interface is really a crude, stupid way for humans to interact with a computer. Give me a good quality pen tablet over a clunky mouse or clunky fat fingers any day. It takes me a quarter of the time to do the same tasks with my Wacom.

Please let's move on.
 
For musicians I can see a larger sized iPad replacing sheet music or large music notebook on a stand. The current size of the iPad is too small for this type of use. I would welcome a larger size.
This exactly. A 13" iPad is an instant buy for me. Sadly, I don't think the number of niches the bigger iPad satisfies is enough for Apple to bring it to market. But hey, a guy can dream, right?
 
I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't at least looking into the ideas of a more cohesive operating system, similar to what Microsoft did with Windows 8, where iOS and OSX aren't separate entities in the future. Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is considering a laptop with a touchscreen. It's not unlike them to let some other company be first with the idea, make most of the mistakes, and then Apple come out with the right version of the product.

Whether it's something that ever comes to commercial fruition is another story.

Indeed. And let's all remember that iOS can already run natively on Mac OS X, and is actually designed on Macs. Not through an emulator or VM, but through native frameworks that exist in Mac OS X.

When apps are compiled to use in the iOS Simulator, they are running natively on OS X, it's just that the simulator restricts everything (screen size, framework access) to make it behave like an existing iOS device.

But internally at Apple, they have all the freedom they want to experiment with larger screen sizes, and open iOS to all the missing framework that only exist on Mac OS X. They more than probably have touch-screen Macs somewhere in the lab running an unrestricted full screen version of iOS concurrently with the "legacy" interface of Mac OS X.

This kind of "Super iOS" would have an edge over what Microsoft did, as porting complex apps like Photoshop for touch-screen Macs or larger intel based iPads would be much easier as they would only have to redo the windows/menubar part of the UI code using UIKit.
 
13" Tablet

Here's a 13" tablet:

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Compared to iPad:

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Doesn't feel very large at all. In fact, it makes the iPad feel inappropriately small.
 
Do you think the introduction of the 64 Bit chip in the iPhone 5s and the development of a larger tablet signal that Apple is closer than anyone to a unified OS across all platforms (i.e. phone, table, pc)?

Could be plausible, especially with the 64bit A7.

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Here's a 13" tablet:

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Compared to iPad:

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Doesn't feel very large at all. In fact, it makes the iPad feel inappropriately small.

If the screen was 16:9, it wouldn't be a bad size device.
 
Try using a touchscreen laptop for a while and tell us how much it sucks pretty quick. Jobs even talked about the fatigue in one of his keynotes. Holding your arm up like that for extended periods is no fun which is why we haven't seen it in places like the iMac even though outside manufacturers have offered touchscreens for the iMac for years. http://www.trolltouch.com

It would be amazing if Apple could build a keyboard dock for their iPads. You could dock the iPad when needing to do some serious typing, and you could undock it when you need to take it on the go. Or bring the dock with you if you like. If only Apple would make one.

...wait.
 
Musicians?

This would be an amazing thing for musicians. I am sure there are other fields that could use more canvas to see from a short distance as well, but for the working musicians being able to have sheet music or charts at full scale size would be a dream.

I am currently running AirTurn on ForScore on iPad2 and it is already awesome, but I have to constantly crop PDF's of charts and sheets to be easily seen on a music stand from about 2 - 4ft away. This would truly make a difference.

I really hope they make this. :)
 
Try using a touchscreen laptop for a while and tell us how much it sucks pretty quick. Jobs even talked about the fatigue in one of his keynotes. Holding your arm up like that for extended periods is no fun which is why we haven't seen it in places like the iMac even though outside manufacturers have offered touchscreens for the iMac for years. http://www.trolltouch.com

Here is a different question

Have you used a touchscreen laptop for 'a while'. Preferably more than minutes in a store,

Personally, my work supplied a number of them. Nothing wrong with the touchscreen.

Unless you are somehow forced to only use the touchscreen for input?
 
Uh… iOS 7 surpassed iOS 6.x installations over 2-1/2 days ago. You might want to give it a try, see what's in there.

How does iOS7 surpassing ios6 installations change that ios7 on the ipad only shows 9 apps on folder screen?
 
If the screen was 16:9, it wouldn't be a bad size device.

It's 16:10. At a ratio of 16:9, it feels a little... off; it's too short. It doesn't seem like it would make difference either way, but it's easily noticeable. HD content would still be about twice as large as it appears on the iPad
 
Hmm...
13" screen...
Just came out with the A7 which they emphasized is "desktop class"...

All they really need to do is design a dock with full size keyboard and voila...a possible MBA replacement?.

Intel doesn't need to worry yet. But I wouldn't count on it being the same situation 2-3 years down the road.
 
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This would be sweet if apple actually made a tablet with full OSX. Why cant they make a rival to the Surface Pro(Not that it is a Much of a Rival) But They would sell the hell out of a 12" iPad running OSX... If that was the case....shut up and take my money:D

a 13" iPad that runs iOS with super long battery life and if Apple somehow had a way to do a touch-screen OS X -- that connects remotely to my real Mac and uses its processing power combined with the iPad, and makes it seem as if there is no lag at all -- i would want that. I'd have a Mac Pro at home that stays on 24/7 and just take iPad with me anywhere
 
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