...MAYBE their will be something within a cloud involving the textbooks.
i mean remember this an a "mobile media event"
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...MAYBE their will be something within a cloud involving the textbooks.
i mean remember this an a "mobile media event"
Won't do you any good if it did (it won't). It is going to run on ARM. No Mac OS software will run on ARM without recompilation.
I agree.
For those "of course it's running iPhone OS" n00bs, do you really just want a larger iPhone sitting on your desk? -- and besides, you had a 1 in 2 chance of being right, so don't get too excited just yet.
I don't see Apple putting out a 10" iPod Touch, just doesn't make any sense at all.
I don't want to be limited to App store applications, I have an entire list of desktop applications I would love to have running on a multi-touch tablet interface.
Just to name a few:
Network monitoring interfaces
Intrusion detection consoles
Web browser (that supports extensions, Flash, etc)
Local / offline file storage
Development IDE's (scripting or compiled)
Word processing
More sophisticated email
Of course, these could never happen on an iPhone OS or with the speculated CPU options.
Regardless, I can't see a 10" iPod Touch being "the most important thing I've ever done." -- Steve Jobs
connected to your main Mac this would be your mutli touch interface, when not connected it would use screen sharing to run full mac apps on the mac and give you access multi touch control of them.
Also as a side thought i remember the rumors about MacBook Pros having a multi touch display, this seems along the same idea, and maybe the feature that apple uses to keep the Mac far and away from windows.
To keep an "iPad" from failing, one would need to just buy the hardcover book. Yes, many, many students would most likely drop the tablet, spill water on it, or some other random incident, but what if they have a defective device? What happens when you have it plugged into a surge and the power goes out killing the device and/or AC adapter? What if it gets a typical iPhone type issue (I had kept my iPhone in perfect condition for everyet one day it hung up on the
sign and so did the next 4 replacements)? Yes, I woulnd't say that keeping your tablet from failing is completely in your hands. What is, though, is having a back up solution so that one can get their work done.What an idiot.
Way to steal Steve's thunder...
But it's not like he said anything that we don't know...
Can't wait.
Way to steal Steve's thunder...
But it's not like he said anything that we don't know...
Can't wait.
Ironically, something that would help people read the onscreen text would be a matte screen, but you know Jobs loves shiny things (like a little kitten that's easily distracted) and will have a super glossy screen.
First, you do not know if it will run on an Atom processor. Second, and more importantly, why are there so many Hackintosh netbooks with Atom processors that run perfectly fine? If the hackintosh community can do it, I do not see any remotely possible challenge Apple would have doing it.
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almost here guys, almost here.
i hope it has alot to do with gaming.
almost here guys, almost here.
i hope it has alot to do with gaming.
The coolness factor that's missing from much speculation
We all know the basic features of the tablet (10", wifi, camera, app store, iphone OS, etc.), but I will shout from the rooftops until I'm hoarse what was mentioned by Nick Bilton on his blog post, when he quoted a senior exec at Apple saying, "You will be very surprised how you interact with the tablet."
Two words: Haptic Feedback.
THAT will be breakthrough technology, if you actually get tactile response from typing on the virtual keyboard. THAT makes this a killer product.
We all know the basic features of the tablet (10", wifi, camera, app store, iphone OS, etc.), but I will shout from the rooftops until I'm hoarse what was mentioned by Nick Bilton on his blog post, when he quoted a senior exec at Apple saying, "You will be very surprised how you interact with the tablet."
Two words: Haptic Feedback.
THAT will be breakthrough technology, if you actually get tactile response from typing on the virtual keyboard. THAT makes this a killer product.
You must have more money than sense. If you really think Snow Leopard or any other desktop OS works well on a tablet, waste your money on one of those third-party mod books. iPhone OS is OS X with a different interface and lower CPU requirements.
The reason why tablets have failed so far is because of the software. You just don't get it.
You lack imagination and the capability to think outside the box.
hahaha
And you think people will buy a large iPod Touch?
You say the iPhone OS is just OS X with a different interface and lower CPU requirements? Uhmmm, wouldn't those lower CPU requirements be based off of things that are different than the core of OS X, which inherently means that they are _not_ the same...
Maybe on the Haptic, but is it really there yet?
I predict that the tablet will be called the iPad.
it will be an e reader, and media player, but it will also be a track pad for your Mac bringing multi touch to every mac it is plugged into, and making multi touch to computing and replacing the mouse and keyboard. Also with a display it will be multi function bringing up pallets for apps as you switch between them.
finally you will be able to run applications on your remote mac through screen sharing and will be able to access all your data on a Mac via Back to my mac.
It is going to change how we work with our data and how we access our data. The table will be the window on your data, you will not be able to live without it in 3 years.
this will be the biggest thing Steve Jobs has done. Bigger than GUI and bigger than the mouse, and bigger than a portable media player.
No clue but I can't wait either. Only problem is that we know it will be announced tomorrow (well, 99.999% sure but there's the ever lingering .001% that could throw it all off) but it won't ship til March most likely. Then we would have to wait a month or two with anticipation just to possibly receive defective units or hear about delays (a la iMac).
I'll pay $1000 for something like this: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/MacView_-The-personal-library/394639
Sorry - I meant "ARM" and typed "ATOM."
It will be an ARM processor. Replace atom with ARM in my post and it will make sense.
Seems like it would be very hard to use the "keyboard" since it isn't tilted - it would be like trying to hold a 2x4 and type on it at the same time.
Or maybe he was allowed to say that much? Probably one of Apple's PR leaks, as others have suggested.
Yeah I would like to purchase it on apple.com....well TOMORROW! i been saving. What are your deciding factors like carrier-ties,battery life;etc?
me tooo! that was nice, but sorta reminds me of....G1
Will my iPod Touch be re-branded as an iSlate mini?
really think they need at least a 10 and a 7...maybe a 5 inch also,
like Dell is doing with that bad-a$$ looking red device shown to a few at CES.
Also, surprised GUI is called "iPhone 4.0" and not OS X "Tablet"
this trial balloon was hoisted to soften the blow that this thing will run almost the same GUI as the existing/next version of the iPod Touch & iPhone.
still hoping for a seriously-hybrid, extremely powerful "Tablet OS".........
really think they need at least a 10 and a 7...maybe a 5 inch also,
like Dell is doing with that bad-a$$ looking red device shown to a few at CES.
Also, surprised GUI is called "iPhone 4.0" and not OS X "Tablet"
this trial balloon was hoisted to soften the blow that this thing will run almost the same GUI as the existing/next version of the iPod Touch & iPhone.
still hoping for a seriously-hybrid, extremely powerful "Tablet OS".........