Possible, but I think they'll pull the same stunt they did with the iPhone; announce it, let the media hype it, word spreads, and then when people are rabid for one, realease it. Not a bad plan really.
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Apple Special Media Event Scheduled for January 26th?
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Possible, but I think they'll pull the same stunt they did with the iPhone; announce it, let the media hype it, word spreads, and then when people are rabid for one, realease it. Not a bad plan really.
Picture if you will Steve walking down a flight of stairs w/a long white beard and old shepherd's robe. In both arms, he is cradling what appear to be slates with writings on them. So it shall be written.
This question is insulting to our intelligence, use the search function instead if you still don't get it to see the 10000+ of replies to this. I will go just as far as to say: form factor reads like a book, held like a book on chairs, sofas, beds...
Still it demonstrates how blind can tec people be. Even after all that has been said about the mac tablet, some people still don't get it, still don't see why it should work or what need it might fulfill.
I'm hoping for this also. If I like the tablet, I'm getting a tablet and replacing my iMac with an updated iMac. If I don't like the tablet, I'm getting a new MBPro and keeping my existing iMac desktop.
If I don't like either, I'm dumping all the Macs and going to Win7 with a new Lenovo X210 tablet due for release in January and building out a Win7 desktop.
In any event, there should be some cool stuff q1 next year and I'll have some choices to make.
So your entire post revolves around the tablet's use as a book. That and calling people who don't agree with you "blind". Perhaps some of us just simply prefer to have a physical book made of dead trees in our hand?
For the record though I AM excited about the possibility of a tablet, and the idea of things like INTERACTIVE magazines would be awesome. Nevertheless when it comes to novels, I'd like something non-electronic.
ok let me humour you, my post was brief because I 've posted tens and tens on post on the uses and necessities of a tablet.
I too prefer dead wood books, and cds, I have thousands of both. Actually I adore paper books.
I have some ereaders too, but they don't suffice.
But I can't carry all my research, novels, papers on one paper book.
I can't browse the internet comfortably in a train, in a recliner, in bed, on a chair, on a sofa with ANY device available right now. I can substitute a laptop for this use in some few cases here but that's about it.
You can browse your cd covers, media etc. and stream them via your tablet that can double up as a control center for your streaming media over your home stereo.
It's also super powerful and more comfortable iphone type device, allow me to not go into the myriad of uses there.
It will be excellent for form filling, doctors pad, control pad on patients, clients, etc. etc.
Trust me, in a year you ll love your ibook and you ll swear by it.
Most of your list doesn't make any sense. Lets see, Apple JUST updated the Macbook and Mac Mini, so theres no chance at all for any kind of update to either of those. Macbook Pro update certainly is a possibility, but just think about that for a second. Do you honestly think Apple would hold a dedicated event with a "major product announcement" just to announce new processors in the MBPs? Seeing as Apple just did a major update to their Mac lineup in October WITHOUT holding any kind of event, I highly doubt they would have this event just to announce core i5/i7 MBPs.
Its highly unlikely a new iPhone would be announced in January, unless its an announcement for a Verizon CDMA iPhone. Come on, Apple isn't going to completely revamp the iPhone lineup just 6 months after the 3GS. Sales are still strong and theres no need to. Plus Apple recently has been updating annually, so that just makes no sense. The only thing iPhone related that would happen at this event would be a preview to 4.0 and perhaps a new Touch with camera and MAYBE a Verizon iPhone.
So basically what it comes down to, for Apple to hold a dedicated event for a "major product announcement" would really have to either be a new product (Tablet) or a revamped subscription based Apple TV. Even then I still don't think Apple would hold an event just for the Apple TV, seeing as its not their strongest product. So I think all signs point to some entirely new product, aka a Tablet. Especially since they apparently are holding the event for several days.
I shortened your post somewhat to avoid excess redundancy, however, well said, I agree with you on everything except this last bit here. It will be a cold day in hell before I call it an iBook
No tablet. We finally get an Intel quad core in the new MBP. Finally. At last.
Waiting for the new box to arrive in a little over three weeks from now. Which seem to keep dropping off of a fork lift truck in Ireland, mysteriously, where people are printing manuals and boxes. Just an empty box of course, but a real one. After this it goes en route to France for another first.
Most Apple fans here will wow, while a few self proclaimed Photoshop experts think to see something that isn't right, again. They will however all be wrong. Yet again.
Waiting for the new box to arrive in a little over three weeks from now. Which seem to keep dropping off of a fork lift truck in Ireland, mysteriously, where people are printing manuals and boxes. Just an empty box of course, but a real one. After this it goes en route to France for another first.
Most Apple fans here will wow, while a few self proclaimed Photoshop experts think to see something that isn't right, again. They will however all be wrong. Yet again.
Yeah, 2010 is next year.
I hope not. If he does, AAPL will plunge. I'm not saying that Apple needs steve or else, I'm saying stock holders think that.
i think that the best possibility would be an iphone like device that is just larger. I am currently using an ipod touch as a skype phone - but the battery life sucks. having a tablet and presumably a longer battery life would make my life much easier. too bad the won't be launching the product in Janruary.
An evolution
iTunes Music Store ---> iTMS ---> iTunes Media Store --->
ITMS ---> Internet Mobile Store ---> ITS ---> Internet Store
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I'd like an iMac that has a removable screen therefore becoming the iTablet. Of course that screen is multi-touch capable and the base of the iMac is a WiFi access point. ViewSonic did something similar about a decade ago. Maybe Apple can make this happen in a more elegant fashion.
OMG, can't wait!! I've got the cash to get myself my very first MacBook Pro 13" base model, but would like better specs... Plus, they're due for an update.
Definitely holding off until they're updated!!
My predictions for the event:
- Holidays sales, numbers, etc. all the boring stuff.
- Please everyone with awesome new MBPs with super cheap prices
- "One more thing:" AMAZE everyone with the iTablet - 10" screen, multitouch, Mac OS X Snow Touch (touch-oriented version of Snow Leopard).
- Possibly a price drop for the iPhone, or make the 8GB iPhone 3G a 3GS.
- MAYBE updated Cinema Displays ....... ???
- I'd love iTunes 10, totally re-written from the ground up in 64 bit Cocoa (like what they did with QuickTime X), but I highly doubt it.
*sigh* I can dream...
Definitely holding off until they're updated!!
My predictions for the event:
- Holidays sales, numbers, etc. all the boring stuff.
- Please everyone with awesome new MBPs with super cheap prices
- "One more thing:" AMAZE everyone with the iTablet - 10" screen, multitouch, Mac OS X Snow Touch (touch-oriented version of Snow Leopard).
- Possibly a price drop for the iPhone, or make the 8GB iPhone 3G a 3GS.
- MAYBE updated Cinema Displays ....... ???
- I'd love iTunes 10, totally re-written from the ground up in 64 bit Cocoa (like what they did with QuickTime X), but I highly doubt it.
*sigh* I can dream...
I agree with you. I made the same prediction a month ago that the MacBook Air will eventually evolve in the tablet.
Picture if you will Steve walking down a flight of stairs w/a long white beard and old shepherd's robe. In both arms, he is cradling what appear to be slates with writings on them. So it shall be written.
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