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Unannounced Apple Product Found in Web Logs?

M!K said:
Even if this is true. which i doubt, i don't want Apple to make a netbook. Those little screens are useless and soooo ugly.
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iPhone OS scaled up or Mac OS X stripped down… the latter's not as compelling as it could be when the former can do "basic web browsing, chat and email" almost as well as the latter, likely with less footprint (in more ways than one).
 
not waiting on the hardware

I think the holdup with a netbook may be the software. People are predicting that it might be something like iPhone+, or not quite full OSX. Well, we are getting near to the release of Snow Leopard. One of the big "features" is supposed to be dropping PPC, which will shrink the size of the OS as well as all applications. There is also talk of making extra language packs and drivers installable on request, instead of automatically.

What this all adds up to is a slimmed down, optimized OS that would work on smaller and slower hardware. I think it could be like a down-speced Air. Instead of the 13", it might be 10-12". It would have maybe 32GB SSD only (which will be cheap in 6 months), and no DVD. The processor could be Atom or slower Core2 Duo.

All this will be made possible by changes in Snow Leopard. The netbook might be announced in January at the same time as 10.6 is getting briefed.
 
Mac Tablet rumors again?!

Someone should compile a graph or timeline that shows the occurrence of Tablet rumors since 1997. Then compare that to the number of Mac Tablet products released since 1997 :rolleyes:
 
i hope we see something come out of this! the new macbooks are still really expensive just to use as a secondary computer. a $400-$500 apple netbook could be the answer.
 
How long to MWSF? I think this is just in time to get the rumors into first gear! If it is, then can we get some pictures??? :p
 
twoodcc said:
as much as i hope that there is a device like that out there that is coming at macworld, i just don't think it's happening
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I am highly doubtful as well. Even if the rumor of a report from an unknown source is accurate, I don't think we will see and Apple netbook or an Apple tablet soon. The netbook market is still new and Apple would be wise to see where it goes. The novelty of the netbook craze may go away, it may increase. Also, Apple would benefit to observe current netbook producers and see what they do wrong and what they do properly.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)

Something like these mockups is what I'm holding out for. I would buy at least two of these for my small business.
Seriously Apple...you cannot bring these out fast enough. He says getting his hopes up.
 
I played with a 10" or 11" widescreen Hackintosh today. Don't remember the brand (was not a Lenovo, Asus, Dell...) but it ran leopard better than my G1 Macbook, had a 1.6 GHz Atom CPU, a regular 2.5" Hard drive, built-in camera, gorgeous display and 2 hours battery life. Oh and 3 USB ports, VGA, (no firewire), bluetooth, ethernet and a card reader. The keys were normal size except the punctutation keys. Think 12" powerbook in terms of width, but much less height (widescreen). Guy told me he paid 350 Euros for it. Even Photobooth worked.

So... yea. I totally want a super small Mac now. Not thinner, smaller footprint. My Macbook (black) feels huge compared to this thing. Steve Jobs himself admitted they were having ideas for Netbooks, so it makes sense to do some testing now.

Combine the Macbook Air's logic board (tiny), an Atom processor (low-power, medium performance), Unibody enclosure with maybe 1.5" thickness, 2.5" hard drive, glass trackpad (saves a lot of vertical space since you don't need the 1" wide button) and you got yourself a great little machine. Make it work with the Macbook Air's superdrive, too.
Think EEEPC, but with an actually usable display, aluminum body and a worthy operating system.

Let the mockups begin!

EDIT: The hackintosh I played with was indeed an MSI Wind:

msi-wind-black.jpg


Here's one running Leopard: http://gizmodo.com/5020490/msi-wind-running-mac-os-x-thinks-its-a-mac-pro
 
It doesn't mean anything unless the IP address is comming from Apple which the article doesn't appear to indicate. An unnamed source citing something that a group of bored teens could spoof? Please.
 
M!K said:
Even if this is true. which i doubt, i don't want Apple to make a netbook. Those little screens are useless and soooo ugly. Plus Apple already has the MacBook Air which replaces that I believe.

So... no netbook but pleaseeeeeeeee Apple, bring a tablet Mac like a MacBook Touch!!!!
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Nobody realizes this but we all are referring to the same product. Its just that we have no way of really describing the product Apple is working on. Its neither a netbook or a tablet mac or a macbook touch. But we just don't have the words to describe so we use names of things we think it might be.

Whatever it turns out to be you can be sure its going to be an original!
 
I hope people don't get their hopes up on rumours and get dissapointed when it's not annouced, but then that always happens so I won't count on it. :rolleyes:
 
John Markoff is an idiot. He doesn't know jack crap about anything. All he is known for is looking out for his own pocketbook.

He spread lies about Kevin Mitnick in the 90s and the name "John Markoff" is shunned in any computer forum in the world.

Guy is a joke.
 
MacTablet! 9" diagonal screen. Exactly 2x iPhone resolution. About the size of a letter paper folded in half. 0.25" thick. Bluetooth Keyboard. No mouse. Optional stylus using MacOS Ink. All screen. No hard disk. 32GB flash. Cocoa Touch OS. iPod connector. Multitouch. Listen to Zathras!
 
LeviG said:
it could just be a netbook running hackintosh os-x or do they show up as something other than 'os-x running safari' on the logs :confused: Screen res as stated is within current netbook range etc and theres been plenty of people getting os-x running on atom hardware.

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User agent strings would look something like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1

Other than "Intel Mac" there's not much information to go on...

Like Arn said, obtaining screen resolution data is also possible, but as you pointed out -- a Hackintosh NetBook would show a "new" screen rez size (1024x600 for example) for a Intel Mac that might cause someone to believe they've discovered evidence of a new Apple product.
 
arn said:
This isn't true. It was an Adium log, not a web log.

The previous MacBook revision was seen when it was reported based on a battery logging application that saves the MacBook model numbers. But this was not a web log.

arn
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Are these details published on MacRumors in any widely visible way or merely as yet another post in an obscure thread?

If there was an iPhone with 2x-3x the pixel space, the usability for older folks or larger folks or corporate folks would be enhanced. Even if that were a marginal 20-30% market with a price premium. 100 voice phones and TWO iPhones. It could happen.

Rocketman
 
ProwlingTiger said:
Umm, actually they can be, as several others posted above me.
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Umm, actually they aren't. The user agent strings are completely separate from the javascript mechanism where resolution can be detected, as several others posted above me.

Anyways, both of these are completely useless and easily falsifiable. This is just shady journalism.
 
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