While we are dreaming, lets add 2 quad Xeons to get an octal and run it at 3.6 GHZ, with a new power source where you just add water to recharge and only 1.7 lb for the weight.
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Ultra-Portable MacBook Likely at Macworld San Francisco 2008?
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While we are dreaming, lets add 2 quad Xeons to get an octal and run it at 3.6 GHZ, with a new power source where you just add water to recharge and only 1.7 lb for the weight.
I don't care about an ultra thin laptop. i would love to see NAND memory in the Macbook Pros though. I would love to have to extended battery life.
Comparing a 12" Powerbook to the current MacBooks, the size difference is not very much. All in all, they are very close to the same size, obviously the MB being widescreen. That would lead me to agree with Mandoman that this rumored product could be a smaller MBP.
If they were to come out with an entire new line, MacBook Nano for example, they could have 2 versions. One meant for entertainment/casual use and the other for the business user. The MacBook Nano, approx 11" (enough difference between it and the MacBook) whose specs are roughly equivalent to low to mid-level MB and the MacBook Nano Pro, same size, but more meant to like the MBPs - dedicated graphics, etc - and a significant price bump.
Tablet redux
OK, this is absolutely my last post on a Mac tablet but while I was in the shower I was thinking, what if you could turn the tablet on it's side, press a button, and a see-through keyboard would appear on the bottom of the touch-sensitive screen. So now you can answer emails or enter URLs by typing directly on the screen. No more punching "Chicklet" keys like on the iPhone. Slide your finger one way and you change the opacity. Slide it another and you move the keys closer together or further apart (if you have thick fingers).
If we don't dream it, they'll never build it.
OK, this is absolutely my last post on a Mac tablet but while I was in the shower I was thinking, what if you could turn the tablet on it's side, press a button, and a see-through keyboard would appear on the bottom of the touch-sensitive screen. So now you can answer emails or enter URLs by typing directly on the screen. No more punching "Chicklet" keys like on the iPhone. Slide your finger one way and you change the opacity. Slide it another and you move the keys closer together or further apart (if you have thick fingers).
If we don't dream it, they'll never build it.
I wonder why SJ doesn't announce such a beast if it exists pre Christmas? I'd have thought new goodies pre Christmas makes more sense than when everyone is trying to find the money to pay for their holiday excesses.
I know Mac World isn't run by Apple but even the organizers of MW should consider why they hold this event in january every year ... or am I missing some major reason why it has to be in January?
I know Mac World isn't run by Apple but even the organizers of MW should consider why they hold this event in january every year ... or am I missing some major reason why it has to be in January?
It's funny that you say that... I go to a coffee shop to work all the time, and believe it or not, the majority of people in there are still using their 12" PowerBooks because they love the ultraportability... I still see them everywhere. And also, if you follow the forums here, you'll see that a bunch of people still use them, as well.
Not to point out that you're wrong or anything, but...
He's wrong. Out of the mac owners I know, 4 have 12" PowerBooks and 3 have iBooks (12"). The others have desktops. Some have a 15" as a main machine, but it's 12" PowerBooks that are the portable OSX machine.
NAND Flash? I wonder how much storage it will have. I'm happy to hear this. I'm glad i bought my SR MBP now and didn't wait. I wouldn't want this anyway. I would but it sounds like it MIGHT not have much space for the money. Which is fine for some people and if i had money to blow, i'd get one.
We've heard this rumor going on almost two years now.....
From MacRumors 2006
Apple Planning Ultra-Portable?
From MacRumors 2006
Apple Planning Ultra-Portable?
Seriously does anyone believe a thing these analysts believe? It would be interesting to see how often the analysts were right over the past 2 years. I'm betting Thinksecret or Joe Schmuckettelli have better track records.
Wonder no more. MacRumors has a guide that tracks analyst accuracy. As you can see, Gene doesn't have a very good record. The only things he got right were things that were highly rumored at their respective times... such as the joining of other movie lables to iTunes... and that a touch-sensitive iPod would follow the iPhone.
Let the record show that this guy is a sham.
-Clive
Does it make sense to assume that this will be a MB and not MBP? It says aluminum, but doesn't a MUP seem more likely to be in the non pro range? Or will there be two new additional sizes to both models? Nad flash to me suggests that the form factor will be very small, like iPhone. Could this create a competition between the Mac portables, with respect to cost/function?
This would be dissapointing imo...
Oh well, nothing to do but sit around and wait....
*Refreshes macrumors constantly*
Black or Grey?
Sorry if someone has already said this, I haven't read all the posts. But, wasn't there a rumor some time in the past when the new iPod classics came out that the next range of laptops would be the same colours and form, ie Black or Grey with curved edges? I hope so, one in Black please !!!
Sorry if someone has already said this, I haven't read all the posts. But, wasn't there a rumor some time in the past when the new iPod classics came out that the next range of laptops would be the same colours and form, ie Black or Grey with curved edges? I hope so, one in Black please !!!
I used to have a laptop that was a brick and I managed t carry it to classes on a daily basis!
Build those muscles up!
It's not just the laptop. I have to carry books (heavy books) and other stuff to my class as well. It wuld be great if they reduced the weight from 2,5kg to around 1kg.