And in January they'll be saying it'll come out at WWDC![]()
Am I the only person getting a little sick of the Tablet rumors?
I think Apple has taken the anticipation a little too far. People must slowly be losing interest. I know I am.
Hurry up Apple, show us what you have been working on!
Doubtful the version of OS X running on the tablet will be based on x86. There's no point in buying a company that produced low-power CPUs (PA Semi) only to then buy Intel's Atom processors.
Having spent 10 years in the microprocessor design business, I seriously doubt the pa semi guys have anything ready yet (they had to start from scratch, after all, since they had been working on PPC). But it does suggest the tablet will use ARM, since the pa semi guys are surely working on ARM, not x86, and they'll want to transition to PA Semi for tablet v2.0.
The company employed a 150-person engineering team which includes people who have previously worked on processors like Itanium, Opteron and UltraSPARC.
iPhone OS was designed to be navigated with a finger. OSX is designed to be navigated with a mouse.
Apple isn't stupid enough to get this backward on the tablet. Hence, zero chance of OSX.
iPhone OS was designed to be navigated with a finger. OSX is designed to be navigated with a mouse.
Apple isn't stupid enough to get this backward on the tablet. Hence, zero chance of OSX.
Yeah, but don't you get free kangaroos?
Ive been saying that Apple will do a tablet for the past 6 years.
How many people think it's going to be called iPad!!
let's take a vote!!
I just hope this tablet runs mac osx and the iPhone OS
From Wikipedia:
There's nothing to suggest that PA Semi is working on ARM CPUs as they have engineers with experience in all archs.
First of all, I know these guys. I interviewed with Dobberpuhl at DEC Palo Alto, in fact. The key guys worked at DEC, among other places. I have personally designed PowerPC, Sparc, and x86 chips. In any event, there IS something to suggest they are working on ARM.
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So, since Apple already uses ARM and x86, and since x86 ain't likely it, there is pretty good reason to assume it's ARM. ARM is freely licensed, very good for low power applications, and it's possible to get one done fairly quickly by licensing RTL and doing their own physical design.
There's nothing to suggest that PA Semi is working on ARM CPUs as they have engineers with experience in all archs.
Former P.A. Semi engineer Wei-han Lien lists his current position as "Senior Manager Chip CPU Architect at Apple" in his Linkedin profile. His specialties include high performance microprocessor architecture/micro-architecture and verification. According to his published profile, his present job is managing the "ARM CPU architecture team for iPhone".
I didn't mention anything since I quoted it from Wikipedia.
I misspoke, i meant there's nothing to suggest that they are only focusing on ARM chips.
My point is, we have no solid proof of anything. We can't assume that the tablet will be ARM CPUs, it could run CULV chips for all we know.
Also don't forget that Apple has a special relationship with Intel, PA Semi could be working with Intel to produce special line of CULV/Atoms for the tablet and iPhone.
Actually there was a big thing to suggest that PA Semi is now working on ARM.
https://www.macrumors.com/2008/09/15/apple-developing-arm-processors-for-iphone/
Lien since pulled his linkedin page.
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No, PA Semi cannot be working with Intel to produce a special line of atoms. Because they're not. I know they're not. It's an absolute fact that whatever they are working on it isn't x86. Intel hasn't licensed anyone to do such a thing since it licensed AMD to do so decades ago. That didn't work out very well for them. And Apple wouldn't form a design team just to work with Intel. It would demand a team from Intel work with Apple, and save itself a bunch of salaries. In any event, it will either be Intel Atoms or ARMs from a third party or PA Semi (the latter being a long shot only because PA Semi hasn't probably had enough time to perfect things). Most likely it's ARM, because ARM has sufficient performance and much lower power requirements.
Edit: also, as mentioned above, public resumes and profiles indicate they are working on ARM.
OK I shouldn't be telling you guys this because I could lose my job. I work as a security guard at Cupertino and I found some big news! The tablet will be called the "God pad" and will have Steve Job's face engraved on everyone. It will be so thin and small that you wont even see it when you open the box, you just have to trust it's there. Finally it will have enough processing power to communicate with aliens and will wash your car and buy your wife/girlfriend flowers when you screw up. I'm so excited! I saw Jobs floating around on one of these the other day like a magic carpet. Oh yea did I mention it can fly?
This is gettin fun... I hope its cheap
Yes, I remember that one but it's clearly stated iPhone. The question remains if PA Semi are working on ARM chips for the tablet as well?
I agree with you. No question about that. They are working on ARM chips for sure for the iPhone. That's not what I was asking tho.
I'm talking about the tablet, will they be working on ARM chips for the tablet as well? The tablet might actually have higher tolerance for power requirements and performance and might tolerate an x86 chips instead of ARM.
My guess is that PA Semi might not be doing anything for the tablet and remain an exclusive engineering resource for the iPhone type of devices.
What I was thinking, an iPhone emulator (unless it's running full blown OSX on an arm chip (which would really be horrifically slow tbh), would be nonsensical, the emulator would drain battery and wouldn't provide good enough performance, where as OSX native on an arm wouldn't run fast enough and be horrifically laggy, and all OSX apps would have to be re-wrote once again for the ARM processors...
Something to also consider is at both sizes with a stand it could make a great kitchen comp similar to the hp touchsmart.
It would also make a good photo frame when not in its primary use. That would be a neat way to "store" it -- put it in a stand on the counter plugged up to a power outlet. It could sync with iTunes or whatever via WiFi.
For the "kitchen computer," it would be great for a digital recipe book, multimedia player, news reader, etc.
I just hope that it has the capability of playing Kindle books. I bought a few for the iPhone app, and I'm holding off on buying too many before I see how this stuff shakes out. I wish all of the readers could play all of the proprietary formats. The makers could create special features only for the specific players, but you could at least read the darn books on all devices.
What kind of screen is rumoured? Like any computer screen (and iPhone) I'd imagine it'd get very tiring reading a book as opposed to the e-ink stuff... thoughts? If its got something like e-ink I'd be MUCH more likely to get it (personally)...
Although for general use e-ink might not be so good? perhaps a hybrid.