Comments on: What if the Apple Tablet is a Mac?

By: ¿Se adelantará Microsoft a Apple con el Tablet táctil? : Wishful thinking…

¿Se adelantará Microsoft a Apple con el Tablet táctil? : Wishful thinking… — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:43:20 +0000

[...] de que Microsoft se adelante al tan esperado Tablet o Macbook Touch de Apple, del que se lleva rumoreando meses en la [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:01:25 +0000

Hopefully they will come out with their own tablet mac soon. I literally am on the verge of buying a mac or pc tablet when I get funds to do so, the user base for multimedia applications seems to be a big contributor to the user base of the mac, it would be a bad marketing move not to try to create an actual macbook tablet.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:21:47 +0000

Amazing! Apple Mac Book has already been very popular and now this technology is certainly going to rock the world.This is not only hi-tech but it is looking beautiful.

There are more features and articles on here:

http://www.touchuserguide.com

By: Tkdblk

Tkdblk — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:26:29 +0000

“Or bring them all: iPod TABLET, Mac TABLET and MacBook TABLET. This is certainly the best approach, for anyone to get any of them.”

Yes, because it really is all one operating system. Something which the Windows oriented media really doesn’t get. They seem to think everything will be done the way the Windows world is: a collection of hardware store bits bolted, wired and duct taped together.

So it is really a silly question. What I want out of a tablet, really a deal breaker for me is some workable form of handwriting recognition. That is the main purpose for a tablet, and one I would use every day. I used the last version of Apple handwriting recognition and it was very good. For that matter, I have used the Windows mobile version, and it also worked well for me. And I have bad hand-writing. Go figure.

By: TeX

TeX — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:39:43 +0000

Mac OS X inside and video-out port on a 300 to 600 g small device tablet. That is all needed for success. The iPod touch is too limited with its crippled OS inside.

The MacBook Air is too heavy and large, besides being port-limited.

Or bring a MacBook Air mini at 1/4 the MacBook Air size, no more than 600 g and with real independent ports: video-out, Ethernet, Firewire, USB2, SD card.

Or bring them all: iPod TABLET, Mac TABLET and MacBook TABLET. This is certainly the best approach, for anyone to get any of them.

By: DocB

DocB — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:09:02 +0000

A tablet running Leopard OSX makes more sense to me than a tablet running iPhone OS. The low end gap I think is spot on. Could a touch interface be hooked in to OSX? I think it very likely. Bluetooth on board – Apple already has a small Bluetooth keyboard all set to go. n wireless on board + screen sharing you’ve got a remote interface to your desktop Mac to run whatever you need. Throw in a 3G wireless data plan (Verizon?) and you have a Kindle-like situation ready to be exploited. Not to mention onboard camera for vid and stills. I think Apple will go for the broadest appeal with device. Therefore OSX.

As to the pictures. All I can say is very un-Apple in design. Too thick. Too gray. Too blah overall. Maybe a one-off test bed but not any where near a final product.

By: gymkit

gymkit — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:47:41 +0000

I think it will be Mac OS with an app that allows you to run iPhone apps. You can currently do this with the iPhone developer version so why not make it into a Mac app and get the best of both worlds!

This would extend their App store to the Mac platform and allow for mobile touch to come to Snow Leopard.

By: Olternaut

Olternaut — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:44:52 +0000

Does anyone really think that this mockup is real?

By: beattz

beattz — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:12:08 +0000

Lately I have wondered this same thing myself:
http://twitter.com/beattz/statuses/3323072504

Apple recently promoted its 13″ laptop from MacBook to MacBook Pro status, meaning the current MacBook offering consists of a single white plastic model based on old designs. Surely this gaping hole in their consumer oriented line-up is a perfect home for this new tablet?

Furthermore, the imminent update to OS X, Snow Leopard, focuses on improving stability, leading me to believe their team of user interface designers have probably had plenty of opportunity to work on a version of OS X that is touch-screen friendly.

This said, I still believe that iPhone features such as the app store and simplicity of interaction are far too compelling to be ignored when considering what Apple may produce.

By: tom b

tom b — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:05:48 +0000

“Under the hood”, of course, iPhone OS and Mac OS are almost the same. The UI in a tablet would need to gracefully accomplish things you would not want to do on a mobile device, like run many apps at once.