Too late. I'll invest in a DELL Mini 9 or 10v and Hackintosh it before I wait this long for Apple to get off their duffs and join the Netbook community.
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Yes that is my exact question too! What the hell happened to the LG deal??
And some guy over at appleinsider says he has email proof that WinTek does NOT have 10" screens so therefore no delivery to Apple anytime soon.
So Apple spies and covert intel specialists....what the hell is going on?
Yes that is my exact question too! What the hell happened to the LG deal??
And some guy over at appleinsider says he has email proof that WinTek does NOT have 10" screens so therefore no delivery to Apple anytime soon.
So Apple spies and covert intel specialists....what the hell is going on?
What's going on ?
Typical Pre-WWDC disinformation. Apple's really good at it.
WinTek? Sounds like a lovely vendor to do business with. Apple is already drawing heat for their association with them:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china-and-its-neighbors/090521/apple-under-fire-taiwan
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china-and-its-neighbors/090521/apple-under-fire-taiwan
If you think the Macbook Air is a "the best netbook", then you clearly don't jack about what a netbook is.
The MBA is WAY too large to be a netbook, and about 3x as expensive.
Cut the MBA in half width wise, and then you've got a decent footprint size for a netbook (and, even then, it would be a little on the large size).
"poor quality with poor user experience" -- they do quite well as what they're intended for. Email, Web browsing & cloud services/computing, IM, very light games. They only start to show their deficiencies when you use them for things they're not intended for (photoshop type apps, 3D games and the like, etc.). Again, it seems pretty clear you just "don't get it" when it comes to netbooks.
Netbooks aren't just about making ultra-cheap computers, they're about delivering the right amount of power for the common computing tasks that just about everyone does ... without addressing the computing tasks that only specialized users need (graphic artists, gamers, etc.), and not making the low end users pay for those premium capacities.
The MBA is exactly the opposite: it's about catering to the conventional computing market with a specialized (thin) device ... it's not about addressing low end users (computing wise, expense wise, etc.) at all.
I meant to say "touch" but I was typing too fast. This doesn't change my question though.
Actually, what they should do is add another USB port AND a FireWire 400 port. Revise the external SuperDrive to use the 1394 inteface INSTEAD of an out-of-spec USB port. (And then the MBA would have FireWire)
Add a 256 GB SSD option and there you go. The price can stay the same.A simple e-mail to WinTek Taiwan confirmed this rumor, there is no 10 inch touch screen over at WinTek (or they are lying to me).
They however are working on a new product, a new kind of touch film though they are awfully shy and won't confirm it per e-mail. Scared of Apple's legal department?
Unfortunately, the 10's don't have an Ubuntu version, and I refuse to run Windows. So, I'd wait until you hear whether or not anyone successfully hacintoshes it before getting one. (I'm still debating whether or not to hacintosh my mini-9 ... I'm actually pretty happy with their customized Ubuntu, but I still love OS X, and would prefer not having to switch back and forth)
As for the keyboard ... for "on my lap" basic navigation (on the train/bus, on the couch, etc.). For situations where I need to take notes, I already own a Mathias folding USB keyboard (I bought it for use with my Samsung Q1 Ultra, with Ubuntu-UMPC). I can just pull that out, plug it into the mini-9, and type away.
(though, I don't actually own the mini-9, I own the vostro a90, which is the same basic unit, but in all black ... and sold through their business unit; it was $200 some time during April).
Unless the product for which these displays have been supposedly ordered is not any kind of tablet or touch device.
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Whoa whoa whoa, hold on! Now that's just blowing my mind!!
I can't even . . . conceive of such a thing at this point. But, wow.
netbooks are crap. Nothing that they do really that your iphone cant with incomparable portability. Ultra portables on the other hand blow netbooks away, and the air blows every ultra portable away. If you can't afford it forget about it or borrow money.
Apple should release their innovative rumored product in their own time and perfect it as they always do.
Remind me again which manufacturer of laptops makes unibody construction instead of a mess of screws? Which manufacturer has a glass trackpad? Which manufacturer has multitouch gestures? Which manufacturer has seemless pod/phone/computer integration? Which manufacturer has the thinnest aluminum unibody laptop? Oh that's right, none of them do except for APPLE. The rest just sell their medieval crapware with the medieval windows and by knocking off a couple of hundreds of $ they would like us to believe they are even a bargain.
I am 100% sure apple will come out with a product that will blow all the others away. Why? Cause they almost always done so.
Apple should release their innovative rumored product in their own time and perfect it as they always do.
Remind me again which manufacturer of laptops makes unibody construction instead of a mess of screws? Which manufacturer has a glass trackpad? Which manufacturer has multitouch gestures? Which manufacturer has seemless pod/phone/computer integration? Which manufacturer has the thinnest aluminum unibody laptop? Oh that's right, none of them do except for APPLE. The rest just sell their medieval crapware with the medieval windows and by knocking off a couple of hundreds of $ they would like us to believe they are even a bargain.
I am 100% sure apple will come out with a product that will blow all the others away. Why? Cause they almost always done so.
If your statements are a bit over the top, that's fine, because they're correct in spirit.
Apple does have quite a track record, especially since they made the move to Intel architecture.
Thanks ltd. I intentionaly chose this over the top style to put across the fact that irregardless of everything apple has at the end of the day produced innovation no one has yet to quite match, netbook or no netbook. Because I this these kind of discussions are getting sidetracked as if netbooks where the next best thing to sliced bread instead of the dubious fringe product they are.
Either at the WWDC or at an event later THIS YEAR (not 2010) I have a feeling apple is going to unveil a product that is going to be......BIG.
But I don't know if its going to be tablet related or iphone related.
Whatever is going to happen I can bet Apple is about to lay the smackdown on the competition!
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Things I can do on my netbook that you can't do on your iphone:
- Type on any type of keyboard, without reducing the screen real estate available to the application.
- Type on any physical keyboard whatsoever, but especially not on a Bluetooth or USB keyboard, for fast note taking in a meeting, etc. (without jailbreaking it, and thus breaking the use model of the device)
- Connect it to a KVM switch so that you don't have to keep switching your locus of interaction when you're working with both your desktop and mobile device at the same time.
- Run a VNC _server_, to get around the KVM limitation, and just interact with the mobile device via your desktop environment
- Chat/IM on a full featured, multi-account on multi-protocol, native chat/IM application, with local logging, and supporting close to a dozen chat/IM protocols.
- Run the full Gmail client
- Run the full Google Reader client
- Run the full Google Docs client
- Allow you to seamlessly take your lightweight/low-end apps with you from 17" monitor on your desktop to cafe to bus to train to plane (without having to even switch the device that they're running on).
The iPhone and iPod-Touch are amazing pocketables, maybe even the kings of the pocketable market. But when it comes to the netbook and UMPC type devices (bigger than pocketable, smaller than a 13" laptop), the iPhone and iPT are absolute crap. They are LOUSY at performing the tasks of a netbook or UMPC.
The thing that you have gotten correct here is: The MBA is not a netbook. It's also not an ultra-portable (in the sense of being an UMPC). It's just an ultra-thin laptop.
People who want a netbook are not/will not be happy with an MBA, and people who try to compare the MBA to netbooks are just as is daft as people who try to compare iPhones to netbooks. The only thing they prove is that they don't know what they're talking about when it comes to netbooks and UMPCs.
Certainly the MBA blows away the CPU, RAM, storage capacity, application portfolio, etc. of those devices. That's they way it is SUPPOSED to be. Again, people who don't get that, don't know what they're talking about when it comes to netbooks and ultra-portables. Laptops, these days, have evolved into desktop replacements. Netbooks and ultra-portable devices are NOT desktop replacements. While they run the same apps and OS as your desktop, they are only intended to run the common, lower end, apps and tasks that everyone does, not the full blown user experience of a laptop or desktop machine, nor the more CPU/RAM/Storage intensive apps that require premium hardware.
(and, I can afford a MacBook of any caliber, I don't need to save or "borrow money" to get one; I don't have one because I don't want a huge f'n dinosaur device in a huge f'n dinosaur laptop bag, hanging off of my back ... I want a small device in a small gadget bag)
I agree that they should do it their own way, and on their own schedule. And if they do, whatever product category it's in, it will most likely be a game changer. But ...
It wont be in the UMPC category if it's not bigger than pocketable and smaller than a 12"-13" display laptop. And it wont be a netbook if it isn't in that size range, and its base cost is more than $800-$1000 (unsubsidized). So to keep blathering on about "but Apple already has X", and "Apple is great at Y", none of which are in those product categories, in the middle of a conversation about netbooks, is just pure idiocy.
Apple Tablet and Macbook
There is so many names popping out for the name of the Tablet. Why not call it iTablet?
Now all the hallabaloo about MacBookPro. All aluminium books will be called MacBookPro. Probably the present MacBook will be updated to pro level with 13" screen
the New MacBook with an plastic body will house the present MacBook which would have screen size 13' and under
That is my understanding
There is so many names popping out for the name of the Tablet. Why not call it iTablet?
Now all the hallabaloo about MacBookPro. All aluminium books will be called MacBookPro. Probably the present MacBook will be updated to pro level with 13" screen
the New MacBook with an plastic body will house the present MacBook which would have screen size 13' and under
That is my understanding