the modern newton

[bryantm3]

see attatchment.
wouldn't this be cool?

 

[P-Worm]

Uggh, not this again...

But nice mockup nonetheless.

P-Worm

 

[wdlove]

That is awesome bryantm3. Just what many Mac fans are waiting. My wife would purchase on if it performed like a Palm so it would allow her to have her medical data.

 

[jrv3034]

Something like this woulld definitely gather a following, as long as the price is right. $299 would be sweet. Carry your iPhoto stuff, iTunes songs, iCal, Mail & Address Book, all on a 40GB HDD with inkwell handwriting recognition.

It would sync with iSync via Firewire, USB2, and would be Mac & PC compatible. Moreover, it would weigh 5 ounces (or about as much as a cellphone).

Lots of people would be all over that, including myself!

 

[aswitcher]

I would want brushed metal. A clamshell design protecting the screen would also be preferable like the SE Z600 phone.

 

[KC9AIC]

It would rock if we could pop it into a mobile dock that would attach an 9 inch LCD and mini keyboard and trackpad to it. It could be Apple's 2 pound miniBook.

 

[question fear]

I think if apple were to release a pda it would be hard drive based like the ipod...
theres really not much else to do in terms of breakthroughs that the pda market hasnt either done or tried to do...and with a shrinking market you'd have to make a big splash.

 

[bryantm3]

Originally posted by jrv3034
Something like this woulld definitely gather a following, as long as the price is right. $299 would be sweet. Carry your iPhoto stuff, iTunes songs, iCal, Mail & Address Book, all on a 40GB HDD with inkwell handwriting recognition.

It would sync with iSync via Firewire, USB2, and would be Mac & PC compatible. Moreover, it would weigh 5 ounces (or about as much as a cellphone).

Lots of people would be all over that, including myself!

sounds ok, except for the $299. that wouldn't be feasable.
and somthing else, the mac+pc compatible.
this ain't an iPod. this thing is like a notebook built into a PDA. you couldn't use it with a pc, cos the file/directory structure is totally different.
and it would sync firewire 800 only.
cos i said so.

 

[aswitcher]

Originally posted by question fear
I think if apple were to release a pda it would be hard drive based like the ipod...
theres really not much else to do in terms of breakthroughs that the pda market hasnt either done or tried to do...and with a shrinking market you'd have to make a big splash.

Yep, and maybe more than 40Gig, say 80, ... which brings back the idea of an AV iPod.

If the other rumor about iPods getting a Mac home account on them to boot from any machine, then this would be a better beast for such a service.