Apple Tablet Speculation Continuing to Gain Attention

[AidenShaw]

If Apple keeps waiting and waiting, and meanwhile the media keep talking about massive demand for a tablet, then Apple's competition will grab the idea by the horns and become first to market. A Windows 7 Tablet. I don't think any of us around Apple want that. Apple needs to hurry up. The media has already hyped the idea and the public demand has skyrocketed. Someone needs to fulfill the demand soon. Who will be first? Apple or Microsoft?

Already coming....

9", Atom (x86), HDTV tuner

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/02/archos-9-windows-7-tablet-does-a-little-hands-on-time/


Many "convertible" tablets are on the market or coming, with Windows 7 Multi-touch...

http://www.dell.com/us/en/enterpris...d.aspx?refid=laptop-latitude-xt2&s=biz&cs=555

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/gateways-windows-7-boasting-ec18t-tablet-images-specs-leak-ont/

11.6" LED backlit display, 8 hr battery, multi-touch screen (finger or stylus), multi-touch trackpad, wifi, BT, 3G (opt), x64 (up to 8 GiB RAM), SD/MMC/MS/xD reader, MPEG/VC-1/AVC hardware decoding, VGA out, HDMI output with 7.1 sound, optical sound out, 3 USB, 1.7kg (3.8 lbs)

http://us.acer.com/acer/product.do;...ond189e.c2att1=0&ctx1.att21k=1&CRC=1229369540

I wonder how long before HackBook is supported on it....

 

[SactoGuy18]

Are you saying Apple likes to make things difficult for developers?

I would expect Apple to say that when you port a Mac app to run on the tablet computer (providing it uses the Intel Atom N450 CPU), it has to be "simplified" to make it easier to use and also redesign the program to work specifically with the tablet interface.

Because we all expect the tablet to offer much more functionality than the iPhone/iPod touch, what works on the iPhone/iPod touch may be insufficient for the tablet computer, especially with the much larger display area and definitely more computer power available.

 

[iMacmatician]

Uh oh

This better not be true.

Apple's Tablet gets postponed

THE SECOND COMING of Apple's Newton tablet, which has been hyped more than the return of Christ, is now looking equally delayed.
After churning out rumours about how wonderful the Tablet is going to be, the rumour mill is now telling the world that Apple might not be ready to expose the tablet to reality yet.
Apple apparently planned a March launch of the Newton II and was spending its time trying to fill the media with claims it was not just a big Iphone or a PDA in drag.
Now it appears it is still vapourware with plans to postpone the launch of its tablet to somewhere in the second half of 2010. This will probably coincide with the software launch of Duke Nukem Returns which we guess will be the first game that will run on the machine.
The reason for the delay is that Apple has decided to change some of the components and plans to launch a model using an OLED panel from LG Display.
Foxconn, Quanta Computer and Pegatron Technology are expected to be manufacturing partners for both of Apple's two tablet PC models. One tablet will have a 10.6-inch TFT LCD panel while the other will have a 9.7-inch OLED panel.
However the news might be bad for those who think that Apple's tablet will be flogged for $800.
The 9.7-inch OLED panels are priced at about $500 and panel costs normally account for about 30 per cent of a device's total cost.
This means that Apple's 9.7-inch OLED tablet PC might be priced at about $1,500 or higher. Other sources think that the price will drop to as little as $1,200 by the second half of 2010 or that the retail price could reach as high as $2,000.
In other words, no one has a clue as to how much these things will actually cost, if they ever do appear.
Some people think that the only way Apple will get a Tablet into the shops is if its mates in the telecoms industry subsidise it enough.
Cynics claim that Apple is delaying the release of the Tablet until OLED panel prices drop far enough. That means that the Tablet might have to wait until 2011 when it is expected that the technology might be available at acceptable prices. µ

2011?? $1500-$2000?!

 

[macshill]

Conde Nast To Publish Digital Version Of Wired For Apple Tablet
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/conde-nast-to-publish-dig_n_362927.html

"Considering Wired is unabashedly pro-Apple and functions basically as a publicity arm for the company this isn't particularly surprising.

If anything, Apple should cover the cost of the development of this new platform, seeing as Wired will spend every waking moment from now until the release of this tablet raving and salivating over it and proclaiming anyone who doesn't own one to be one of the last remaining ancestors of "Homo digitalis", the new dominant sentient mammal species on planet Earth."

 

[Traqqer2000]

Conde Nast To Publish Digital Version Of Wired For Apple Tablet
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/conde-nast-to-publish-dig_n_362927.html

"Considering Wired is unabashedly pro-Apple and functions basically as a publicity arm for the company this isn't particularly surprising.

If anything, Apple should cover the cost of the development of this new platform, seeing as Wired will spend every waking moment from now until the release of this tablet raving and salivating over it and proclaiming anyone who doesn't own one to be one of the last remaining ancestors of "Homo digitalis", the new dominant sentient mammal species on planet Earth."

Wired's subscription rate has been dropping like flies over the last couple of years. So, they are pretty desperate to try anything. Not sure if Conde Nast produced this video, but it's interesting to see some of the possibilities of a Tablet being used for these purposes...

http://www.alltabletnews.com/2009/11/22/new-tablet-concept-video-for-wired-magazine/

 

[LagunaSol]

Conde Nast To Publish Digital Version Of Wired For Apple Tablet
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/conde-nast-to-publish-dig_n_362927.html

"Considering Wired is unabashedly pro-Apple and functions basically as a publicity arm for the company this isn't particularly surprising.

If anything, Apple should cover the cost of the development of this new platform, seeing as Wired will spend every waking moment from now until the release of this tablet raving and salivating over it and proclaiming anyone who doesn't own one to be one of the last remaining ancestors of "Homo digitalis", the new dominant sentient mammal species on planet Earth."

Your great Apple conspiracy paranoia (and burning hatred) would be funny if it weren't so sad. Aren't there better places you could be where you could commiserate with your own kind? With 95% market share, I'm sure there are cyber-places where the Microsoft acolytes gather and share their common loathing of El Jobso and the evil glowing fruit.

You're just wasting our bandwidth here.