Yeah, Apple's touch screen tablet has been rumoured for a long time. Expect it to cost 2-3 times more than the N810 though, or even N900 for that matter. I'd not seen those new iPhone specs though... juicy stuff. I can't believe people are buying iPhones knowing that a new and better one will be out in a years time.
I's also to big (at least from the pictures I've seen). Not pocketable, it's about the size of some netbooks out there.
They already have a pocketable device on the market: the iPod Touch. That's not what the new tablet is rumored to address. It's going to address the netbook and UMPC type markets.
Otherwise, even just a plain tablet, but one that has video out and USB host ports (so you can connect it to a KVM) would be good enough. As long as it runs desktop OS X, and not iphone os x ... though, desktop OS X with a mobile GUI would be good.
one could say the same about people buying the nokia tablets these days.
Seriously still feeling the sting from my prior purchases. But as it stands, OS X in both forms - iPhone/iPod and desktop/laptop - are both being updated and continued and supported.
You'd have to have a G4 to be excluded now in that market. In the internet tablet portion - it's one update (770 had OS2005 then 2006... end; N810 had OS2008 and then Diablo... end) - and that's it.
And that's poor. So I'd welcome anything from Apple - I know it'll be supported for more than one major official update.
They already have a pocketable device on the market: the iPod Touch. That's not what the new tablet is rumored to address. It's going to address the netbook and UMPC type markets.
Otherwise, even just a plain tablet, but one that has video out and USB host ports (so you can connect it to a KVM) would be good enough. As long as it runs desktop OS X, and not iphone os x ... though, desktop OS X with a mobile GUI would be good.
True, the IPod Touch / iPhone is Apple's response to the pocketable market. But it's to locked down for me. A tablet with OSX hopefully wouldn't suffer the same problems. Shame it won't be small enough though.
True, the IPod Touch / iPhone is Apple's response to the pocketable market. But it's to locked down for me. A tablet with OSX hopefully wouldn't suffer the same problems. Shame it won't be small enough though.
While I agree that the iPone and iPod Touch are too locked down, I don't see them creating a product that directly competes with their star player.
You could always try getting an Atom based MID and try to hackintosh it ;-)
I'm happy with the tablet actually, my only gripe with it is that I can't use it out and about (no internet connection). And it won't be till another year or two till I acquire a phone with a data plan (Android). Of course in a year or two more advancements will happen .
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