You want the specs? It's a piece of aluminum with a screen, no physical keyboard and it runs osx. It's so new and exciting! It's going to change our lives!
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John Gruber: No Camera on Apple Tablet
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More detail please. Clearly you're in the know.
All of you commenting on this are 10 years late. Radiohead already beat you to it with OK Computer.
Is it really any surprise that people are this self-involved? The hilarious irony is that tech is supposed to make your life easier but in fact has added more burdens to our lives. All you have to know is that there are people on this forum who will buy this device, without any particular need for it, just because of the hype and wanting the next new thing from Apple. LOL, you even have them justifying the lack of a webcam.
Not only that but everyone keeps acting like it's going to be something from another world. Hello! Tablets are already on the market, just look at those and make them a little prettier, run osx, and put a glowing apple on it and there's your stupid tablet. I have a 13" MBP, so tell me what the hell is a tablet going to do that my MBP can't? I'll say it again, this tablet idea is so stupid and it just goes to show how the market can convince people something is "in" and "useful" when really they are just redesigning old crap and re-selling it to you.
It can light up it's keyboard? The point is that there is TO MUCH hype surrounding something as useless as a tablet computer. Doesn't matter if Willy Wonka ::cough:: Steve Jobs ::cough:: designs it or not. Don't ignore what's right in front of your face, it's a flat piece of aluminum with a screen and it runs OSX. What's so new, exciting, and game changing about that?
So there's no difference between a Dell laptop and a MBP, because they're both made of plastic, aluminum, and glass? An iphone and a motorola razor? A porsche and a ford?
Computers are judged by their molecular makeup and not by how they let you interact with them to get your work done?
Your comparison doesn't even work in this situation. Ford and Porsche? iPhone and razr? Those are completely different things. We are talking about two machines extremely similar but one doesn't have a physical keyboard. That's it.
How do you know? You know nothing about the tablet. Even the fact that it runs "OS X" means nothing. OS X takes many varied forms as widely different as Apple TV, iPhone OS, and Mac OS Server. The iPhone is just a tiny device without a keyboard and running OS X, but that description doesn't begin to cover how useful the device is and how it allows one to do things one can't reasonably or conveniently do with a MBP.
First, don't pretend you have any idea what the tablet will be, because other than your description (aluminum, glass, and OS X) you know nothing.
Second, don't be such a spoilsport. The days of looking forward to a new OS release or a new computer release have essentially passed us. Apple is one of the few examples left of a company whose announcements are worth looking forward to, because every once in awhile they still manage to surprise and delight us. And the reasons for our surprise and delight have nothing to do with checklists of features.
The tablet might rock, or it might be horribly disappointing. But Apple is one of the few companies from which we have high enough expectations to allow them to be able to disappoint us, and that's what the hype is all about.
One big thing you're missing...the tablet would have a touchscreen (presumably). That's a huge difference between it and my MacBookPro.
Ok, I'm just going to get offline now and pretend I didn't hear you say "spoilsport." Goodnight.
People are saying already NO WAY from what they have heard will it be a low as 32GB. Most think it will be at least 64GB entry - 128GB with the high-end model being 256GB.
No one knows for sure, but that is what most podcasts that have guests on are saying the storage will start at for a tablet type of device. Otherwise, it's just a glorified iPod Touch.
Some would argue that the first generation tablet will be the beta and the second generation tablet would be the release candidate. That would make the third generation tablet the true release.Where is the tablet Beta and RC?
iPhone 2G = Beta
iPhone 3G = RC
iPhone 3GS = true release
While I am looking forward to Apple's announcement of whatever it will be on Wednesday the 27th, it is doubtless that I will sit out from buying the first tablet.
As an AAPL stockholder, I am glad that many others are eager to purchase new products as it drives up shareholder value.
Which means what? That you are boring?
Which means that Apple is actually listening. Wow.
Surely Apple learned someone from its iPod Touch mistakes and thus it will have two camera's; One on the back and one on the front.
And about the new hip... it is called "swipes". What else is new.
Have you seen the prices of SSD? I mean these are still sky high, and thus it will either have less to little storage, or be too expensive for most people.
SSD's are different from the Flash storage the iPods use. They are far cheaper which is why you see 64GB in the touch. A 64GB SSD is still very expensive at around $200. That being said, I don't see much purpose in a 256GB hard drive for something that is meant for books. If it is a computer that's different.
No Cam...
...simply no buy!If there is no possibility for video chat(MSN,iCHAT), then there is no need of that device, i will never buy it and i don't care what else it haves! Because an apple product should have all things and more than the other competitors! But its a shame not to have a cam!
...simply no buy!If there is no possibility for video chat(MSN,iCHAT), then there is no need of that device, i will never buy it and i don't care what else it haves! Because an apple product should have all things and more than the other competitors! But its a shame not to have a cam!
Expected. Why on earth would people think that the 5 megapixel camera is destined for the Tablet? It's obvious that Apple is trying to keep this thing as a budget "Mac", cheaper than the Macbook as it has probably not even a Webcam, but I still don't know what on earth this device will actually serve to us consumers. I'll just wait till it's announced, then I can decide on whether to buy this.
Onl if you have a slate glued to your hands, which given that it's going to weigh more and be bigger than an iPhone is unlikely.
If that's what Apple is going to use then yes, but I don't expect people to purchase a $1000+ non-upgradeable gadget / slate~tablet. Not even from Apple. Or it needs to have some sort of expansion slot.
And this thing screams iTunes all over... as the new hip and Apple money machine. Not just for e-books. No way!
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I don't agree they've put an emphasis on photography lately. Sure the original iPhone had to have a token camera (like every other phone), but then they didn't upgrade it one bit in the 3G (not until 3GS).
I think the tablet will sell well for applications in classrooms and hospitals where a camera could be a distraction or liability, respectfully.
I agree with the idea of them perhaps allowing "camera-tethering" from the iPhone, or even just a plug in peripheral webcam for those few who would be using it for video chats, which are overrated anyway. (everybody wave...)
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I don't agree they've put an emphasis on photography lately. Sure the original iPhone had to have a token camera (like every other phone), but then they didn't upgrade it one bit in the 3G (not until 3GS).
I think the tablet will sell well for applications in classrooms and hospitals where a camera could be a distraction or liability, respectfully.
I agree with the idea of them perhaps allowing "camera-tethering" from the iPhone, or even just a plug in peripheral webcam for those few who would be using it for video chats, which are overrated anyway. (everybody wave...)
I say quite a lot about population control. But I say it at sciam.com & npr.org, where people at least pretend to discuss rationally.
Have any of you people ever used a tablet? Miscrosoft thought they'd sell well with students and doctors. So they advised MFG's to build overpriced and underpowered lame-o systems for them. Some hospitals found them somewhat handy. Fewer students did. Instead, illustrators, cad draftsmen, designers, photographers, graphic artists, modellers and anyone who works with non-typed geometry struggled to get their huge lummox programs to run on the overburdened windows tablet editions. Most of which wouldn't run pressure-sensitive due to sloppy and worse drivers, OS shortcomings, and laziness on Adobe & Autodesk's part, and many which wouldn't run at all due to the underpowered specs.
Hopefully, Apples head has not been too far up it's dark side of the moon to grasp why tablets failed the first fifty times, in the windows world, and get this right. If they do, they'll be appealing to:
Illustrators
Cad Draftsmen
Designers
Photographers
Graphic Artists
Modellers
Doctors
Students
Gearheads
A greater market than the Macbook Air is catering to, I'd wager. We're already used to paying thousands just for tablet monitors, which are heavy and non-portable, and in enough quantities to keep Wacom advertising on every website on the net.
...but that's assuming they do it right, and not make a freakin 10" ipod touch you can't run any useful applications on.
...& that's assuming they do it at all.
