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Apple Planning Entirely New Mac Product Line?

With the thinness achieved in the Airs, is it conceivable that they could create an iMac-like product that is as thin as an Air/iPad?

Perhaps the screen/body portion would sit in some kind of dock/cradle where the user could then enjoy a desktop experience complete with mouse/trackpad + keyboard. When they want to move, they could simply lift up the screen/body piece and take it with them and use the touch screen.

When you think about it, this theory lends credence to the "iPad Pro" rumors that we've heard:

  • High Resolution Touchscreen Display
  • iPad-like Enclosure
  • Runs Lion
  • Can be used as a mobile touch screen device or a workstation experience

Thoughts?

P.S. Forgive me if this has been posted previously.
 
Page 19? And all of this when nothing has been rumored?

... an entirely new Mac product to its lineup. According to a rough translation provided with the original Japanese version, the product is said to be "absolutely different from current products"
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What part of entirely did the above 400-plus posters not understand?
 
Patriot24 said:
With the thinness achieved in the Airs, is it conceivable that they could create an iMac-like product that is as thin as an Air/iPad?

Perhaps the screen/body portion would sit in some kind of dock/cradle where the user could then enjoy a desktop experience complete with mouse/trackpad + keyboard. When they want to move, they could simply lift up the screen/body piece and take it with them and use the touch screen.

When you think about it, this theory lends credence to the "iPad Pro" rumors that we've heard:

  • High Resolution Touchscreen Display
  • iPad-like Enclosure
  • Runs Lion
  • Can be used as a mobile touch screen device or a workstation experience

Thoughts?

P.S. Forgive me if this has been posted previously.
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This would be my guess as well, sooner or later or later anyway.
 
Amerabian said:
I'm not going to tell you how I know this, haha

Here's a hint,

- It will be a 100% cloud-based device :cool:


Tara ta ta taaaa
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Wouldn't a device that is 100% cloud-based have to be in the cloud not collecting the cloud, like current devices. A participating server in the cluster.
 
i dont think they are going to leave their kind of products. there were just too many people at the ipad shops so there no reason for them to stop making stuff like the ipad..
 
If this is true then please please please let it be a proper consumer level desktop set up. An all in one is no substitute for one as it has weaker graphics. I want a proper desktop mac with expandable capability like the mac pro.
 
Inside Scoop

I have it from a very reliable source that Apple will re-introduce both the Lisa and the Newton.
Yep, a very reliable source.
 
smash said:
It's probably some sort of touchscreen Mac running Lion.
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When I first heard about Apple coming out with a tablet, I thought it'd be a touchscreen of the latest mac os x, sort of like the windows tablet has a touchscreen windows 7.
 
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They could easily make a a decent touch-enabled iMac. They just need to allow pivot points at the top, middle, and base of the stand with spring coils that allow it to remain in any position. That way you could easily fold down the mac so it sits at a preferable angle to you when you want to use touch, or vertical for mouse.
 
I'll throw in my guesses too! :cool:

Laptops are the bread an butter of Mac sales. Based on this we can assume a trial run of 15" MacBook Airs may arrive but look more like chopped down 15" MBPs.

Due to slumped desktop sales I'll guess the "new" desktop will be a single purpose Mac that can be configured like an iMac all the way up to the robustness of the Mac Pro. There won't be a "Mac Pro" anymore but you'll still have a tower like computer. New design of course.
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The Mac Mini Pro will show up to merge the low to middle-end desktops. The MMP will be configured from the low end mini ($599) all the way to the high end iMac (desktop grade i7 or better). Apple will also offer you a 21.5" ACD to go along with the current 27" supper sexy ACD.
 
Eric S. said:
I would buy one of these but it's not where the market is at. Steve has already flatly said that we are in a Post-PC world. I don't see any way that Apple goes this direction now.
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Yah I would to. Im just sick of not having any mid level option. I don't want an iMac, or MBPro since I can't upgrade (unless the TB external card drive is true) and the Pro is just too much for what I need.
 
I can't see it being a desktop, Apple hasn't cared about the midrange tower market for about a decade. They aren't about to change as desktops have become what, 20% of their sales?

I could see some kind of flip screen touchscreen laptop, probably a lot like the Air. Maybe it will even automatically turn into iOS when you flip so it sort of becomes a tablet. Would be very easy to just emulate it over the Intel and OS X but they may even possibly be able to sleep the Intel chip and switch to an A5?

Best of both worlds, you get a full featured laptop running OS X with all the abilities, power, and features you really need.. and then you flip it for a tablet for when you take a crap or whatever tablets are useful for.
 
while a TV seems the obvious answer, my pick is a hub style computer. What I mean by that is something that could integrate all the various devices that people have, make them feel less like discrete devices and more like access points. It would:

  1. Automatically backup your files ala Time Capsule
  2. Serve up media files to all your devices on an as-needed basis. Rather than connecting to your mac to sync your iPhone or iPad. You'd wirelessly interact with the hub, which would store all media files for everyone in the house's devices. Likewise, saved movies would not have to be stored on your computer. Instead, they'd be served to it via wifi and synced if needed on the go.
  3. Serve up media files via internet, allowing you to access all files any time wherever you are and with an iOS device, a mac, or a PC. If you made edits to a document on the go, it would automatically be backed up to the hub and updated in your entire device ecosystem.
  4. Route your internet signal and provide wi-fi
  5. Serve as a Tivo-like device, with cable signals routed through it and then being transmitted to the TV either with a new-age wifi with a higher throughput or by being hardwired to the television
  6. Connect to your sound system, allowing airplay functionality
  7. Offer an interface customized for these purposes.
 
wikus said:
Surprising more people aren't pushing apple to release a product of this calibre. Would fix a lot of stupid reasoning from apple, you know, like being able to UPGRADE parts in a computer.
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Except that, you know, most people don't know how or want to upgrade parts in their computer.

What you and other people here don't understand is the vast, and I mean over 90%, majority of PC users never upgrade their PCs. So why would Mac users? The tower is obsolete as a form factor. There just aren't enough customers than actually need a mini mac tower to justify it.

It isn't going to happen.
 
I wish Apple would somehow implement multi-touch into their Macs. I've been waiting since 2003, when I went to college, for Apple to step up and start creating touch technology. I knew it would eventually come, but I didn't realize it would take this long. And yet, they still haven't released a Mac with a multi-touch screen. We have the iphone and the ipad, but still no multi-touch Mac. How hard would it be to take the internals of a Macbook Pro or a Macbook Air, and make a thicker ipad with a larger screen? I realize there's a company that makes something similar to this already, but why hasn't Apple done it? Is it because it wouldn't be thin enough for their liking?

The ipad is nice, but it lacks the internal power of a laptop. And why not take it a step further and implement stylus capabilities similar to what Wacom produces. Then you would have an entire market of graphic designers all over that product.

I have a feeling we're at a turning point where Apple has to change the game again. We've used computers a certain way for a long time, and Apple has been so good at pushing past what they think is possible and going somewhere beyond the competition. I'm guessing we'll finally see multi-touch Macs sometime next year. And hey, we'll all get one last hoorah before the end of the world. LOL ;)
 
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