Huge mistake for apple to release a non portable phone (maybe mobile device but not nearly compact enough to be considered a true cell phone) No one is going to buy a 1990's size cell phone. Apple needs to play catch up, and put a real OS on it, otherwise it's just another pointless device that will fail. No one wants a larger iphone, in fact most probably want an even smaller one.
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Report Claims Tablet is 'iPhone on Steroids', Runs on iPhone OS Kernel
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First, lots of people want a larger iPhone. Second, this isn't "a non portable phone." The fact that it is running a variation of iPhone's OS simply means they started with that code base. iPhone OS is very similar to Mac OS, and is certainly a "real OS." It has nearly all the most common APIs, though in many cases simplified to eliminate cruft and to take less room. The main difference is in the UI layer, where iPhone OS adds UIKit. Under the hood, there's little you can do with Mac OS that you can't do with iPhone OS. The new OS is likely to be someplace in the middle. It will likely add in some things that had been stripped out (since the new devices will have the resources to cope with them) and add in new UI elements to deal with the new form factors and device capabilities.
And looking at your posts, everything Apple has ever done, is more or less crap. Your comments seem to always be utterly negative.
Well, if you want to display the picture on a television, how would you go about it then? Whether you need external accessories or not depends on what you want it to do. For example, if you want to use a hardware-keyboard, would would have to use an accessory. Likewise with getting video from the device to a big screen. Or do you suggest that it should magically transmit the video wirelessly to the television?
iPods already support video-output to television, why wouldn't the slate support it as well?
If it did in fact have such a dock and it had some AppleTV-functionality in it, it would be in addition to the other functionality it has. You could use the device just fine without that functionality (I have never used the video-out features of my iPod). You are not required to use every single feature of your devices.
What I could see happening is that when docked, the UI on the television would be one that is usable with a remote, instead of multitouch-UI. And I wouldn't be surprised if Apple released new AppleTV based on that UI, using the same CPU/GPU as the slate would use.
Will that happen? Probably not, but who knows.
The screenshot scaled fine (with some smoothing required to get rid of any blockiness). I guess as long as the underlying engine can handle upscaled apps, this should not be a problem.
To everyone that wants this to run "full" OS X, you do realize that even if it did, NONE of your current applications would run, right? Things like MS Office, Photoshop, etc would all need to be rewritten for ARM. Adding emulation (like Rosetta) would just make it unbearably slow running those applications. You'd still have to wait on all the software vendors to port the applications you want. At least by running iPhone OS you get a built-in catalog of available applications.
And like I have said, without knowing the context of what they mean when they say 'iPhone on steroids' your assumptions are baseless.
Do they not teach the concept of context in school any more?
Apple's meant to be getting app developers to redevelop their applications to work with different screen resolutions. Considering that apps these days can run both at 320x480 and 480x320, this might not be as bad as it could be.
I imagine that many won't have any problems with this. However it could also be likely that many applications will need to be totally rejigged for tablet use, in terms of UI layout and structure.
I think Apple would rather have the application developers think over the problem rather than dump iPhone apps directly onto the iSlate where they will look awkward and out of place.
daym, I was really hoping that the tablet would run snow leopard I'm far from sold now.
Again: that is a ludicrous hope. Snow Leopard is NOT designed for multitouch-touchsreen UI, it's designed for mouse and keyboard. If you want a product that runs Snow Leopard, go right ahead and buy this. I fail to see why you would have to wait for the Apple-tablet when the product you are hoping for is already available.
No, Apple-tablet will obviously be running an OS that is designed for touchscreens. And that means no Mac OS X. Simply shoehorning Mac OS X in to a tablet and calling it a day is NOT the solution Apple is going to be offering.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Com'on guys. Use a little imagination. Imagine holding the tablet in front of you as if it wasn't a phone, but with earbuds + microphone plugged into it. Now you've got a way to listen to your media AND use it like a phone when you want to make a call. No holding it up to your ear... but it will be much easier to be on the phone and use this phone for information (like checking movie times) at the same time. If you've ever made a call with VOIP on your laptop (you didn't hold your laptop up to your ear, now did you?), this will be very similar... only even easier because the device itself should be even smaller & lighter. That's how it should work. And if does, it should be great as a combined device for those who need an iPhone plus the bigger screen and other features that come with this Tablet.
#2. No phone means no optional subsidy with contract. I can't believe people keep wanting it NOT to have optional phone capabilities. If you want to buy a Tablet, you either personally cough up all of the price that Apple wants for this new toy, OR, it has built-in 3G for those that might also want to use it as their phone (too), which then gives us a way to "buy" it at "shockingly low prices".
I guess I am "No one" then... because I do want a larger iPhone (to use as described up above), hopefully with other great features to take advantage of a larger screen. And I'll very likely buy a larger iPhone if this thing turns out to be one.
Report Claims Current iMac 27" i5 / i7 Definitively EOL-ed
Yes, but there's no "Report Claims Current iMac 27" i5 / i7 Definitively EOL-ed"
Apple, please focus on delivering the iMac 27" everyone is expecting and waiting for since mid-December 
.
How many failed X-mas presents
The same Ships: 2 weeks is there for more than 4 weeks .
Strange enough, the Refurb only proposes C2D 27", as if the i5 / i7 were not suitable for a refurb, despite all the fuss about the broken screen and the graphic card
What's the need for a new gizmo if you can't deliver
MacRumors, please investigate
Yes, but there's no "Report Claims Current iMac 27" i5 / i7 Definitively EOL-ed"
Apple
, please focus on delivering the iMac 27" everyone is expecting and waiting for since mid-December . How many failed X-mas presents
The same Ships: 2 weeks is there for more than 4 weeks
. Strange enough, the Refurb only proposes C2D 27", as if the i5 / i7 were not suitable for a refurb, despite all the fuss about the broken screen and the graphic card
What's the need for a new gizmo if you can't deliver
MacRumors, please investigate
My guess for the islate:
- 10.1" LCD screen with multitouch
- 1gb of RAM
- dual core cortex arm 9 processor
- 32 gb SSD
- an hybrid o.s beetween mac osx and iPhone gui, closer to aniPhone than a standard macs but with full integration of iTunes, an evolved app store and a cool gui+hardware idea for text imput.
- some online storage disk could be possible for the new iLife suite (10/20gb)
- Bluetooth, wifi, no 3G, no stylus, nor USB or any port at all (no minidisplay)
599/699$ for the price
- 10.1" LCD screen with multitouch
- 1gb of RAM
- dual core cortex arm 9 processor
- 32 gb SSD
- an hybrid o.s beetween mac osx and iPhone gui, closer to aniPhone than a standard macs but with full integration of iTunes, an evolved app store and a cool gui+hardware idea for text imput.
- some online storage disk could be possible for the new iLife suite (10/20gb)
- Bluetooth, wifi, no 3G, no stylus, nor USB or any port at all (no minidisplay)
599/699$ for the price
No SSD (they cost too much), they would use the same type of flash chips as the iPhone and be at least 64 GB. Considering the new chips out, 128 GB would be probable.
It's +1 only if you have time machine and since I'm pretty sure you don't this "+1" thing looks really silly.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
While I'm 110% with you on the desire for a new
TV (personally I'd rather see them announce that than this Tablet), I just don't see it making any sense for this Tablet to be perceived as the next-gen TV. That only works if you are single living alone. Then, when you take this new super mobile device with you, no one back at home suffers at the loss of the TV. Making this Tablet have options to play content on TVs makes a lot of sense. If it is going to be some kind of pseudo-laptop replacement, it is going to need a way to show media on screens other than it's own (for example, a keynote presentation via a projector). But I really can't see it working as a mobile
TV for anyone other than single people living alone. The next-gen
TV should be its own device (like it is now). Build in a dock option if Apple wants the Tablet to easily link to it, but I hope Apple won't try to make this mobile device merge with a stationary device meant to always be connected to a HDTV. After all, how often do you pick up your dedicated DVD player box and take it with you?
I'd like to have onboard video out as well in addition to other peripheral connectors. Then again this is starting to sound like a Tablet PC instead of a dock connector only Apple device.While I'm 110% with you on the desire for a new
Making this Tablet have options to play content on TVs makes a lot of sense. If it is going to be some kind of pseudo-laptop replacement, it is going to need a way to show media on screens other than it's own (for example, a keynote presentation via a projector). But I really can't see it working as a mobile
The next-gen