This seems real.. I hope they don't call it the iPad because this is what i think of when i think of iPad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFNQE_TzQNI
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Last Minute Leaked Photos of Apple Tablet?
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That would certainly make it better for reading paperbacks than a conventional screen, and increase the battery life.Is there still any hope that the Tablet will use a Pixel QI hybrid display? What do you think?
I've got a Kindle 1 and 2, as well as a Nook, and what you get with their free 3G couldn't ever be considered an optimal web experience.
It's strictly an e-reader, with very limited internet utility, no matter how much they try to dress it up. Even the iPhone gives a much better internet experience despite it's much smaller screen.
With the usage that a normal tablet user would have, there's no way Apple could include the per MB cost in their media prices. People will be using this tablet constantly as an internet device.
As you can see, that line already existed on 2008, 2009 shake was discontinued and they just disabled the line:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080419024839/www.apple.com/uk/mac/
Damn you, now I've got coffee all over my screen!
Edit: Nice etch a sketch, that's what I thought of when someone mentioned 'Shake' too!
For content - I'm hoping if it's an iPhone type OS and gets its media off iTunes etc (which is looking likely) that it will sync off WiFi. I'm running out of space for USB hubs and all the leads are a mess!
(Just noticed I'm talking as if I'm certain to own one)
My take on it is this:
It will have a low powered Intel processor, maybe 1Gb or 2Gb of RAM, an SSD, and the display technology from the iPhone (why not - it works very well).
It will be running a customized build of OSX (and my opinion is that the work Apple did to Snow Leopard to cut its footprint was possibly part of it), maybe with an iPhone LOOKING UI, but with the power of OSX behind it.
I think it will be multi-tasking, but due to screen real-estate and to support advanced touch features, you will have to switch apps.
If it is as flexiable as a fully-featured computer in a form factor like this, I'm buying one, regardless of cost.
Best regards,
BigCatX.
It will have a low powered Intel processor, maybe 1Gb or 2Gb of RAM, an SSD, and the display technology from the iPhone (why not - it works very well).
It will be running a customized build of OSX (and my opinion is that the work Apple did to Snow Leopard to cut its footprint was possibly part of it), maybe with an iPhone LOOKING UI, but with the power of OSX behind it.
I think it will be multi-tasking, but due to screen real-estate and to support advanced touch features, you will have to switch apps.
If it is as flexiable as a fully-featured computer in a form factor like this, I'm buying one, regardless of cost.
Best regards,
BigCatX.
remember when they said it would be farrr from 1k?
do you guys think that it matters?
1K/599 for an ebook reader?
ill just wait the HP/Google Slate if this thing is just a *glorified ebook reader*
*stole from another macrumors user
do you guys think that it matters?
1K/599 for an ebook reader?
ill just wait the HP/Google Slate if this thing is just a *glorified ebook reader*
*stole from another macrumors user
I believe this is a photo from a test bay of some kind.
Most Likely covering up things like test dates, the name of the employee who Is testing / working on that tablet at that time. Sticker showing Wifi codes (on the router top right of the picture) etc etc.
My Predictions
It's a 10" high resolution touchscreen LCD panel with more touch points than the iPhone and has the ability to sense when someone/something is close. Patent for this was released today.
Runs a version of OS X (iPhone Kernal) Same style UI as the iPhone and iPod touch OS.
Sync'd via iTunes.
Front facing Camera.
usual Wi-Fi N , bluetooth , 6 hour battery (video) , 24 hour (books etc)
$699
Available March, Developers get SDK update today.
iPhone users get 4.0 and iTunes update with new Books and Magazine Store.
what makes you think its going to be a fully featured computer? even apple computers arent fully featured compared to what you can get on a pc for the same price. if anything it will be comparable to other netbooks, which are nowhere near fully featured computers.
This is BS... Steve called me this morning and said that there is NO tablet... it's an iTable... it has little legs... and you eat dinner off it! It's Steve's stroke of genius at work... who doesn't need a portable table to eat off of?
That's an exact description of what the iPhone OS is already now. It IS a cutdown version of OS X with an iPhone UI. Nothing else..
or it has no sim inserted, or more likely the room blocks cell signal so nothing can be leaked