I can't paste the whole thing on this site. Looks like a 'slate' to me. Also solves the problem of not having a physical keyboard...since u do when it's flipped over. Guess we'll see.
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Apple Tablet Set for Second Quarter Launch With Aluminum Casing?
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I can't paste the whole thing on this site. Looks like a 'slate' to me. Also solves the problem of not having a physical keyboard...since u do when it's flipped over. Guess we'll see.
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Couldn't agree more with you. Why oh why did Apple put that plastic back on. Who cares about better reception or the GPS functioning. What we want is a "sexy' and "delicious" looking iPhone!!! And and the 2G was oh so "elegant"..
Couldn't agree more with you. Why oh why did Apple put that plastic back on. Who cares about better reception or the GPS functioning. What we want is a "sexy' and "delicious" looking iPhone!!! And and the 2G was oh so "elegant"..
Thats Bill Gates using the device in the picture, it is likle running the new windows xp starter edition
Truth is I have been thinking about the aluminum being a problem for the tablet...
Yup. I dropped 50% of ALL of my phone calls with my Edge original iPhone. About the second month into my 3G iPhone that rate dropped to less than 2%. Edge and Aluminum were the combined problem.
As ugly as the plastic cover is, the iPhone absolutely had to have it. It was either that or a stupid looking antenna poking out the top. What would we prefer? I don't want a stupid antenna poking me or looking stupid. The glass display of the iPhone is all we really look at anyways.
Onto the tablet, will aluminum really work for the reception of that given it has a 3G antenna built in? Or, will that cause nothing but problems? I would love for the tablet to have an aluminum bottom but only if that doesn't interfere with reception. We're not just talking WiFi in our houses/offices, we're talking 3G reception everywhere. I want the dang thing to work foremost. Slightly less important is the beauty of looking at the display and part you can see while using. Far less important is the bottom... so if it interferes, just use something like carbon fiber.
The problem with many of Apple's products, upon introduction, is that they consider beauty over form. In the real world, we require it to work first and be beautiful second. I am sure Apple can make this tablet beautiful and still able to work, so I hope they take their time to figure it all out and release a product that works...
Yup. I dropped 50% of ALL of my phone calls with my Edge original iPhone. About the second month into my 3G iPhone that rate dropped to less than 2%. Edge and Aluminum were the combined problem.
As ugly as the plastic cover is, the iPhone absolutely had to have it. It was either that or a stupid looking antenna poking out the top. What would we prefer? I don't want a stupid antenna poking me or looking stupid. The glass display of the iPhone is all we really look at anyways.
Onto the tablet, will aluminum really work for the reception of that given it has a 3G antenna built in? Or, will that cause nothing but problems? I would love for the tablet to have an aluminum bottom but only if that doesn't interfere with reception. We're not just talking WiFi in our houses/offices, we're talking 3G reception everywhere. I want the dang thing to work foremost. Slightly less important is the beauty of looking at the display and part you can see while using. Far less important is the bottom... so if it interferes, just use something like carbon fiber.
The problem with many of Apple's products, upon introduction, is that they consider beauty over form. In the real world, we require it to work first and be beautiful second. I am sure Apple can make this tablet beautiful and still able to work, so I hope they take their time to figure it all out and release a product that works...
First of all: U R a Showoff.
Second: I would have ditched the AIR an get myself a decent Screen.
Two Devices
A couple of possibilities:
1) tablet/laptop hybrid device: this is the 10 inch screen, aluminum machine based on an MBA, but along the lines of the patent posting.
2) iPod tablet: this is the 7 inch screen. More like an iPod on steroids, ebook readwer, etc.
A couple of possibilities:
1) tablet/laptop hybrid device: this is the 10 inch screen, aluminum machine based on an MBA, but along the lines of the patent posting.
2) iPod tablet: this is the 7 inch screen. More like an iPod on steroids, ebook readwer, etc.
If it would be llike this i will ditch my MacBook for it CERTAIN!
Really awesome would be, if the flipping switched OSes.
Touch-interface-> A bumped up iPhonesk OS.
Keyboard-mode-> Fullblown OS X.
U could still switch along the way if u like to type physically in the iPhonesk OS.
First: if I wanted to show off, I would have posted pictures of my house, my cars and my girlfriend. Come on, people on this site have their computers listed as a signature! I don't, although, I have more Apple stuff that I care to admit.
Second: on the picture, the middle one is a 2.4 GHz MB. It had a cheap and nasty screen, completely a disgrace on a laptop in this price range. I used the Air for typing and business trips, but my colleagues kept complaining about the noise that little piece of... computing wonder did.
One of these computers have a self-exploding device inside in case the police comes... only joking.
15" MB Pro for family, fun, movie editing (Firewire+slot), although it had the faulty NVidia chip.
13" MB did not have Firewire, it did not have a screen that was acceptable for typing for any length of time, but the graphics was good otherwise.
13" Air was light, portable, had very good screen and power consumption, but was noisy and video performance was very poor.
But as I said, a 13" MB Pro replaced the MB and the MB Air.
I am sorry that Apple makes so many mistakes and there are so many half-baked products. Two computers should be enough. And that screen is enough for me. It's definitely better than a giga-mega glossy, overpriced Apple screen.
I was looking at the easel patent, and thought of the other patent that was posted a couple weeks ago. The one where the screen had tactile feedback through some sort of raised bumps that raise depending on what you're doing. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/839445/
I could imagine an easel type device with a screen on both sides, and both screens could act as keyboards or buttons using the tactile technology.
That way, you could lay it down like a laptop and use one screen like a keyboard in a traditional way.
You could set it up as an easel, and have buttons on both sides.
Just a thought.
(edit - added cite for other thread)
(personally, I'd prefer having no hinges)
I could imagine an easel type device with a screen on both sides, and both screens could act as keyboards or buttons using the tactile technology.
That way, you could lay it down like a laptop and use one screen like a keyboard in a traditional way.
You could set it up as an easel, and have buttons on both sides.
Just a thought.
(edit - added cite for other thread)
(personally, I'd prefer having no hinges)
the new Macbook air has graphic e noise fixed. Same graphic chipset as the 13" mbp. Only counterpart is the ram cap. But you get a nice 128gb ssd...
Ah, good find! Guess it's back to the drawing boards. I'll take the images down.
Think before I type:
Check.
Think before you type.... posting images to irrelevant patents, link building via the forums, driving traffic to an ad-laden site.... fail.
Edit to add: it would be different if the majority of your posts didn't contain links to your own sites. Just fail all around - deserving of immediate account deletion.
What a brilliant post. This made my day. MacRumors should adopt it as a policy to copy this post into each and every thread.
A Steve Ballmer Play in One Act...
So Ballmer hears the rumors Apple might come out with a slate computer. Not quite understanding what it is, he calls Bill:
"Billy. It's your Monkey Boy. What are slates? Are they shiny. Do they make dollars for us to spend?" -- Ballmer
"Well, Monkey Boy. We've been working on Slates for ten years now but no one seems to want them. Why do you ask?" --Gates
"The interweb says bad guy Apple is making one. And they make things that make dollars. I like dollars." -- Ballmer
"Look. Just wait and see what Apple does because if they're releasing a tablet, it will have some new UI that will reinvent the medium and make it a worth while product. Then, two years later,after they've dominated the field, we'll copy what they did, only not as well. That's our M.O. Now go to sleep monkey. Go to sleep and dream of hair and dollars." -- Gates
"NO! WE WANT BE FIRST! I force HP to whip up some make believe device and show it first! It won't have to work -- just look like big iphone! Then we win!" -- Ballmer
"Oh, monkey boy. God bless you. You are crude but charming. Go ahead, big guy. Try it your way. The worst that can happen is you'll look as clueless as always. But that's what shareholders have come to love!" - Gates
...And hence, two weeks after this conversation, Steve Ballmer got up on stage and, like the car salesman he is, stroked a non existent, "prototype" HP Slate, pretending that it was a real product with a name and actual programs. Several days later, everyone forgot about it. Several weeks later, Apple announced their new, innovative product and Microsoft got to work on a two year bandwagon-jumping plan they called "Operation Late Comers". Ballmer danced and danced in a park until he was put down by several rangers.
The End
So Ballmer hears the rumors Apple might come out with a slate computer. Not quite understanding what it is, he calls Bill:
"Billy. It's your Monkey Boy. What are slates? Are they shiny. Do they make dollars for us to spend?" -- Ballmer
"Well, Monkey Boy. We've been working on Slates for ten years now but no one seems to want them. Why do you ask?" --Gates
"The interweb says bad guy Apple is making one. And they make things that make dollars. I like dollars." -- Ballmer
"Look. Just wait and see what Apple does because if they're releasing a tablet, it will have some new UI that will reinvent the medium and make it a worth while product. Then, two years later,after they've dominated the field, we'll copy what they did, only not as well. That's our M.O. Now go to sleep monkey. Go to sleep and dream of hair and dollars." -- Gates
"NO! WE WANT BE FIRST! I force HP to whip up some make believe device and show it first! It won't have to work -- just look like big iphone! Then we win!" -- Ballmer
"Oh, monkey boy. God bless you. You are crude but charming. Go ahead, big guy. Try it your way. The worst that can happen is you'll look as clueless as always. But that's what shareholders have come to love!" - Gates
...And hence, two weeks after this conversation, Steve Ballmer got up on stage and, like the car salesman he is, stroked a non existent, "prototype" HP Slate, pretending that it was a real product with a name and actual programs. Several days later, everyone forgot about it. Several weeks later, Apple announced their new, innovative product and Microsoft got to work on a two year bandwagon-jumping plan they called "Operation Late Comers". Ballmer danced and danced in a park until he was put down by several rangers.
The End
Ok, can someone please tell me how business quarters really work? I mean obviously I have assumed this:
1st Quarter: Jan, Feb, Mar.
2nd Quarter: Apr, May, Jun.
3rd Quarter: Jul, Aug, Sep.
4th Quarter: Oct, Nov, Dec.
But why do I hear things like other companies quarters being over different time frames or shifted oddly? How does it all work?
And if they are saying a 2nd quarter release for the Apple iSlate when would that put it?
I know it seems and should be simple, but I keep hearing different companies doing different things!
1st Quarter: Jan, Feb, Mar.
2nd Quarter: Apr, May, Jun.
3rd Quarter: Jul, Aug, Sep.
4th Quarter: Oct, Nov, Dec.
But why do I hear things like other companies quarters being over different time frames or shifted oddly? How does it all work?
And if they are saying a 2nd quarter release for the Apple iSlate when would that put it?
I know it seems and should be simple, but I keep hearing different companies doing different things!
Actually, what I was wondering is whether all those companies talking about tablets at CES were planning this all along (quite a coincidence), or were they prompted to "get on the bandwagon" because of the impending announcement from Apple?
Many companies end their financial year in September or October to give themselves extra time to do year-end accounting, taxes, etc. This throws off all their quarters.
interesting
this could be very similar to the screen we are going to see on the slate.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/974/9.509
this could be very similar to the screen we are going to see on the slate.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/974/9.509