Sounds really cool, BUT, what if it only has a 20gb hard drive? That would suck. They can only fit so many of those flash sticks in the case.
Sounds really cool, BUT, what if it only has a 20gb hard drive? That would suck. They can only fit so many of those flash sticks in the case.
I think 5" is ideal ... my OQO fits in my pocket, and it runs a full XP/Vista, Office, etc. Now that is ultraportable =)13" screen is too big. 10 or 11" would be ideal.
Completely right. Sony makes what are hands-down the most impressive ultraportables on the market, but you virtually never see them in the wild because they are extremely expensive. I think if Apple prices this new machine of theirs at $1499 it will sell like crazy. At $1999 it will sell alright, and anything over that and it will hardly sell at all. They could conceivably price it as low as $999, since it sounds like it will use standard laptop components, but at that price you'd have to expect to have hardly any disk space (like, say, 8gb).
My crazy theory about the "strange trackpad":
The machine contains a hollowed out location, near the trackpad for an iPod/iPhone dock. The iPod/iPhone would lay down flush with the notebook. The notebook would then be able to read the contents of the device and play media on the iPod in full screen mode, without using internal storage.
Take this a step further and maybe the machine is nothing but a dumb terminal for the iPhone or iPod touch. You actually use multitouch on the iPhone and it appears on the 13" screen. This would be sort of like Palm's Folio...which wasn't a good idea but maybe Apple could pull it off.
Not necessarily. It may be required that you have another computer that you hook it up to to install software. Or sell an external optical drive.