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Apple Tablet to Launch in Early 2010 Using Chip Platform From P.A. Semi?
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How? I've been using a mouse, keyboard, display, and 2D desktop for my entire life. It's been pretty much the same since the 128K.
I told you. I knew it. I was right. My prediction is now confirmed.
I stated it was going to be a bigger version of iPod touch with a new tablet OS.
I just hope it does not look like that. That thing is ugly.
I stated it was going to be a bigger version of iPod touch with a new tablet OS.
I just hope it does not look like that. That thing is ugly.
I can only imagine the price of this thing. Apple loves over pricing their items.
$800
Maybe, but it won't look like this.
If it uses a P. A. Semi processor then it will probably have a new OS. Sounds fishy to me. If Apple does make this device the corners will not be as rounded as in the picture, it will not run just iPhone OS, and it will not be 4:3. I expect it would look much like the current MBP's (just the screen and black border). It would probably run a touch optimized version of OS X, meaning it would have an Intel processor. Hopefully it wouldn't require you to buy two OS's when upgrading, one for your not tablet Mac and one for your tablet, or maybe it will run standard OS X and just optimize it with firmware or some sort of software? Maybe Apple will call it the Macbook Touch?
If it uses a P. A. Semi processor then it will probably have a new OS. Sounds fishy to me. If Apple does make this device the corners will not be as rounded as in the picture, it will not run just iPhone OS, and it will not be 4:3. I expect it would look much like the current MBP's (just the screen and black border). It would probably run a touch optimized version of OS X, meaning it would have an Intel processor. Hopefully it wouldn't require you to buy two OS's when upgrading, one for your not tablet Mac and one for your tablet, or maybe it will run standard OS X and just optimize it with firmware or some sort of software? Maybe Apple will call it the Macbook Touch?
I'll believe it when I see it.
If I DO see it:
I'm glad Jobs has the foresight to see how useful this could be. If there's a way to illustrate (as in, with an accurate stylus, not with your big gobby finger) with this, either standalone or with a plug-in digitizer option, I'll buy thirty. One for every employee we have currently using a ridiculously overkill $2500 Wacom Cintiq.
For those of you who still can't figure it out, take a look around you. Everything that you see, was designed and drawn by somebody. ...most likely on a PC. This could at least be a considerable step in the right direction. The ability to draw and design and organize ones thoughts on the go in a minimalist light, sleek package? Oh hell yes.
If I DO see it:
I'm glad Jobs has the foresight to see how useful this could be. If there's a way to illustrate (as in, with an accurate stylus, not with your big gobby finger) with this, either standalone or with a plug-in digitizer option, I'll buy thirty. One for every employee we have currently using a ridiculously overkill $2500 Wacom Cintiq.
For those of you who still can't figure it out, take a look around you. Everything that you see, was designed and drawn by somebody. ...most likely on a PC. This could at least be a considerable step in the right direction. The ability to draw and design and organize ones thoughts on the go in a minimalist light, sleek package? Oh hell yes.
Neither PA Semi's PPC or ARM are CISC chips. They are both RISC, with minimal decoding. That was the whole point of RISC. Whatever they have done, they have NOT taken their PPC chip and turned it into an ARM. Especially considering the purpose of their work is energy efficiency. Fancy instruction decoders take juice, and Apple felt the Atom wasn't suitable. That tells you something.
Quoted from Steve Job's 2006 Macword keynote....
Looks like he had one of the two numbers spot on.
Looks like he had one of the two numbers spot on.
I'll pass. I'll just pay the extra $200 for a Macbook. Is there MUCH difference between the Macbook (white) and the Macbook Pro? I'm referring to the 13 inch ones.
It will have a Titanium frame so you wont be able to bend it.
25% will be display+titanium case
75% will be battery
25% will be cpu+memory+io
25% will be display+titanium case
75% will be battery
25% will be cpu+memory+io
Aside from the DDR3 RAM faster processor, better screen, totally different construction, backlit keyboard, SD slot, more RAM capacity, ugly black bezel, longer battery life, and a few others, not much.
size
I've read quite a few posts about how it's too big to use like a ipod, and odd for one hand, ect. I thought the same thing, so I grabbed a 10" book (most paperbacks are about 10"). Holding it in landscape, my thumbs actually went right to the center, which would make typing on it pretty ergonomic (by touch screen typing standards). also, I could hold it vertical with one hand very comfortably like one would with an iphone or ipod. And last, about holding the screen with your thumb while its horizontal: the thumb doesn't go into the screen area like I thought it would. Unless I'm fanning myself with it, I can hold it just fine without going past the "bezel."
I've read quite a few posts about how it's too big to use like a ipod, and odd for one hand, ect. I thought the same thing, so I grabbed a 10" book (most paperbacks are about 10"). Holding it in landscape, my thumbs actually went right to the center, which would make typing on it pretty ergonomic (by touch screen typing standards). also, I could hold it vertical with one hand very comfortably like one would with an iphone or ipod. And last, about holding the screen with your thumb while its horizontal: the thumb doesn't go into the screen area like I thought it would. Unless I'm fanning myself with it, I can hold it just fine without going past the "bezel."
I think it is like how the Cinema Display is to a MacBook. Rather pointless to buy a notebook computer and want another screen.
The ones I've seen don't bend that much--it's more like you can bend them at an angle but not a sharp crease. Still, if there were a virtual keyboard, you could angle it so that the keyboard is flat and the screen is at about a 60 degree angle or so--that might work.
Point? No point. Idea? Probably.
I agreed with you and started wondering what use an object of that (presumable) shape and size might be capable of doing -- and how it would do so.
--If it's wafer-like thin, is the back indented within a raised border? Are there buttons within the indentation that at least two fingers can reach while the thumbs are pressing on the visible side? Is there a side lock key so the buttons are not depressed unintentionally?
-- Or is the face touch-sensitive? Can it work like a drawing/note-taking surface? Can it download books and be read like a Kindle, but in color and certainly with better fonts? Game-playing, with rear buttons or touch contols?
-- Whoopee-cushion expandable? Never mind.
-- Browsing functions? Photo storage? With iTunes? (Download texts, videos, movies, streaming TV'd events, news in the making, recording live events?)
-- Keyboard port. Printer port. Firewire. USB. Of course, battery and external power port. Forgot what I was about to say next.
...Wife interrupted.... A device with almost universa uses, open to apps.
-- Makes Apple lots more money.
I agreed with you and started wondering what use an object of that (presumable) shape and size might be capable of doing -- and how it would do so.
--If it's wafer-like thin, is the back indented within a raised border? Are there buttons within the indentation that at least two fingers can reach while the thumbs are pressing on the visible side? Is there a side lock key so the buttons are not depressed unintentionally?
-- Or is the face touch-sensitive? Can it work like a drawing/note-taking surface? Can it download books and be read like a Kindle, but in color and certainly with better fonts? Game-playing, with rear buttons or touch contols?
-- Whoopee-cushion expandable? Never mind.
-- Browsing functions? Photo storage? With iTunes? (Download texts, videos, movies, streaming TV'd events, news in the making, recording live events?)
-- Keyboard port. Printer port. Firewire. USB. Of course, battery and external power port. Forgot what I was about to say next.
...Wife interrupted.... A device with almost universa uses, open to apps.
-- Makes Apple lots more money.
So is it time to believe yet?
What's the killer app on this thing? What problem are you solving? What is the compelling must-have feature that you can't get on your phone? Will people be buying this instead of an Windows $600-$800 laptop?
I think it'd be cool. But Jobs has to be targeting a bigger market then gadget freaks. If he's trying to make a new market, that'd be great except I can't figure out what that market is.
What's the killer app on this thing? What problem are you solving? What is the compelling must-have feature that you can't get on your phone? Will people be buying this instead of an Windows $600-$800 laptop?
I think it'd be cool. But Jobs has to be targeting a bigger market then gadget freaks. If he's trying to make a new market, that'd be great except I can't figure out what that market is.