If Apple doesn't produce a tablet this week , just buy a Modbook . It's a Apple powerbook turned into a tablet, They say it is shipping now. Made by Axiotron, $ 2,279 and $ 2,479.
Yes, I'd like to.
No, I won't.
AFAIK the handwriting recognition isn't implemented into the system.
I would need it to work with MS Office, iWork and all the other apps.
Also this lovely notebook - which I find really impressive - isn't available in Germany or Europe. In case of a malfunction or a defect I would have to send it back to the USA.
I'm going to go to Beijing for six months and if something happens there I need good and fast service.
Unless they have *VASTLY* improved it over what ships with the XP Tablets... no. Regardless of the accuracy of the actual engine, the HW system on XP always felt like a tack-on toy. InkWell integrates extremely well with OS X.
Unless they have *VASTLY* improved it over what ships with the XP Tablets... no. Regardless of the accuracy of the actual engine, the HW system on XP always felt like a tack-on toy. InkWell integrates extremely well with OS X.
Check out one of the YouTube videos. Vista does cursive, which InkWell doesn't do, and Vista's app seems to be much more accurate.
Because they fill a need that does not exist. The only sensible application is blue-collar "vertical" apps. Tick box here. Select from menu. Get customer to sign here.
Most general-purpose computing applications require text input. Handwriting is slower than typing. Machine-recognizable handwriting is *much* slower than typing.
A tablet from Apple? Never.
A computer with the *processor behind the screen* and a detachable keyboard. Possibly.
For the last time, Apple will not put a Blu-Ray drive in the Apple TV, since the quality would surpass that of the rental service Apple is going to debut.
Apple is not stupid enough to spend millions launching iTunes Movie Rentals and then undercut the download service by having customers say that discs are better.
A: I was joking. The idea of streaming Blu-Ray content from a box--hooked up to a TV--to a computer and watching on a monitor is completely ridiculous. I was snidely saying that AppleTV is a product without consumers.
B: Your vision of Apple's strategy may be completely on the nose. Of course they want to sell their iTunes content and they want AppleTV to be a major vehicle for just that. However, without anyone buying AppleTVs, it's largely a moot point.
C: A hi-def machine will always be better than online content (until there is an infrastructure for online HD content). Where Apple competes in the market for media isn't quality; it's convenience. Apple isn't stupid enough to claim their iTunes content will be better than physical media mediums; thus, the addition of a Blu-Ray player in the ATV wouldn't hurt their overall pitch.
So, while I was joking, it's completely possible that Apple will put Blu-Ray into AppleTV. Thus reducing the number of entertainment devices the consumer must buy before taking advantage of iTunes conveniences. Although, Blu-Ray in AppleTV doesn't have much to do with something being in the air.
Most general-purpose computing applications require text input. Handwriting is slower than typing. Machine-recognizable handwriting is *much* slower than typing.
True.
But sitting in class and not only having to write stuff down, but also draw small explanatory graphics in one document is nice.
And with the XP tablet edition you had the option to save a document in handwritten form and konvert it to machine-writing later when you review your notes.
And this last step is not as work intensive as it seems.
As I said, I've tried it. The app wasn't perfect, but more than usable and helpful.
I haven't seen anyone mention this so far but this is a concept i came up with a couple of years ago --
a problem right now with the ipods is in the house, you need to be "at the ipod" -- mostly likely standing up and off of your couch -- to change songs, artists, etc...
even CD player systems have solved this problem a long time ago -- i have a 51 CD changer with remote.
with the ipod, there is no remote.
the solution is that the ipod, itself, becomes a sort of remote except the songs are stored on the ipod.
the songs or videos get streamed to your airport express, apple TV... maybe even your car decks if apple goes in that direction.
It's that time again -- the first round of non-descript Apple teaser banners have begun cropping up around San Francisco's Moscone Center, the site of next week's highly-anticipated Macworld Expo.
Sure to fuel rampant and widespread speculation for the next four days is a sprawling matte black banner hanging above the entrance to the south hall that reads simply:
"2008. There's something in the air."
Several other banners bearing the same phase are also visible through the windows of the south hall entrance.
Just as it is necessary to own a computer to have an iPod or iPhone, so a completely wireless laptop might fill the niche between these handhelds and full-blown laptops and hence also boost desktop sales. Apple has a pattern of incorporating leverage and hence kick-backs into its devices so that they not only provide distributed income streams but form an inter-dependent ecosystem with one initiating the need, or desire, for another.
A dependent wireless laptop would boost desktop computer sales right when these are going into decline in the general shift toward portables. So here we have a really neat, desirable, oh-so-thin laptop with no moving parts save the screen-hinges and keys. Sort of a big, flat, iPod Touch with a gesture-sensitive trackpad for rotating and zooming, as well as the usual two-finger scroll. More importantly this is a portable that boosts iMac and Mac Pro sales contrary to the trend of every other manufacturer - a very neat solution to consolidating sales and boosting profits right out of thin air.
The use of the term "Air" also has a tradition in its association with WiFi and Apple: notably the AirPort.
Personally, I didn't expect this ultra-portable until Penryn mobile processors debuted, as the lower wattage and hence cooler-running and smaller battery made ultra-thinness possible.
I expect to see two models, say a 64 Gig Flash Drive and a 128 Gig. Expect 'g' and 'n' wireless, gesture sensitive Touchpad, LED backlit screen and a reasonably good, to very impressive, battery-life. With Flash-drive and Penryn-power, it'll be practically instant on and really quick and with integrated everything including graphics, it shouldn't cannibalize sales of MacBook Pro's for professional graphics use. I don't see induction charging - but you never know. When closed, the "Air" will probably still be thinner than a tablet PC. I think Apple would be hard pushed not to play with the words "thin air".
That's my guess. From Aero to Air. A neat solution to more than one problem.
A dependent wireless laptop would boost desktop computer sales right when these are going into decline in the general shift toward portables. So here we have a really neat, desirable, oh-so-thin laptop with no moving parts save the screen-hinges and keys. Sort of a big, flat, iPod Touch with a gesture-sensitive trackpad for rotating and zooming, as well as the usual two-finger scroll. More importantly this is a portable that boosts iMac and Mac Pro sales contrary to the trend of every other manufacturer - a very neat solution to consolidating sales and boosting profits right out of thin air.
From what your saying something new in their desktop range will be essential
I don't think a new desktop will be needed. A wireless ultra-portable would simply integrate like an iPod - but without the need for iTunes. It would just pop onto the Desktop of any computer on the network to which it had sharing rights.
The sales of desktops would be increased because the "Air"? would not be quite good enough to stand alone - certainly able, but not quite enough capacity or whatever.
Something I forgot to mention is that the new subnotebook would be ideal for video chatting. Today's tablet PC's aren't so video chat friendly from an ergonomics point of view.
I don't think a new desktop will be needed. A wireless ultra-portable would simply integrate like an iPod - but without the need for iTunes. It would just pop onto the Desktop of any computer on the network to which it had sharing rights.
The sales of desktops would be increased because the "Air"? would not be quite good enough to stand alone - certainly able, but not quite enough capacity or whatever.
Peter C
You crushed another theory for the xMac, you anti-cubist
No, "you fool" what about the people that do not need the services of .Mac but want the access, such as I, I am fine with my own server and gmail, thank you very much!
Surely if this idea goes ahead, then that will be one of the services of .Mac.
Because they fill a need that does not exist. The only sensible application is blue-collar "vertical" apps. Tick box here. Select from menu. Get customer to sign here.
Most general-purpose computing applications require text input. Handwriting is slower than typing. Machine-recognizable handwriting is *much* slower than typing.
A tablet from Apple? Never
You're thinking too narrowly about what an Apple Tablet could be.
Steve Jobs didn't tout about MT so much just to sell the iPhone, it originated from Tablet designs. It's just taking Apple a little longer to come up with all the folder dragging, copy & pasting and all the regular computer jazz for its multi-touch UI. If you don't think Apple will ever make a tablet you are not seeing the obvious man, cause it's seems like a big truck coming down the road to me.
The iPhone is a revolution, now give us 10" screen, some real processing, desktops, folders and all that jazz and we have a "total revolution". It's coming, I am certain. It's kind of as obvious as Apple making televisions, it's a given.
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If Apple doesn't produce a tablet this week , just buy a Modbook . It's a Apple powerbook turned into a tablet, They say it is shipping now. Made by Axiotron, $ 2,279 and $ 2,479.
Yes, I'd like to.
No, I won't.
AFAIK the handwriting recognition isn't implemented into the system.
I would need it to work with MS Office, iWork and all the other apps.
Also this lovely notebook - which I find really impressive - isn't available in Germany or Europe. In case of a malfunction or a defect I would have to send it back to the USA.
I'm going to go to Beijing for six months and if something happens there I need good and fast service.
Still, thanks for the mention.
....Mac-y like maybe 'connecting' Mac users anywhere.....sharing Wi-Fi?
Very cool. great incentive to join the cult- erm club.
AFAIK the handwriting recognition isn't implemented into the system.
Wikipedia states that the ModBook can use Inkwell.
I found some videos comparing Leopard and Vista's handwriting recognition capabilities. Vistas wins hands down.
Yes, that's what I've heard, too.
And since I already have tried the handwriting recognition that MS has been using since they introduced the tablet...
I've spent some time with a Compaq TC1100 and liked it.
I believe the Modbook is awesome for people who do graphic design and that sorta stuff, or just "point and click"-operations like in a hospital,
but I would like to have a tablet with me in university and just write stuff down.
(Have I mentioned that I'm curious about the new notes app in Office '08.)
Unless they have *VASTLY* improved it over what ships with the XP Tablets... no. Regardless of the accuracy of the actual engine, the HW system on XP always felt like a tack-on toy. InkWell integrates extremely well with OS X.
Check out one of the YouTube videos. Vista does cursive, which InkWell doesn't do, and Vista's app seems to be much more accurate.
Because they fill a need that does not exist. The only sensible application is blue-collar "vertical" apps. Tick box here. Select from menu. Get customer to sign here.
Most general-purpose computing applications require text input. Handwriting is slower than typing. Machine-recognizable handwriting is *much* slower than typing.
A tablet from Apple? Never.
A computer with the *processor behind the screen* and a detachable keyboard. Possibly.
C.
For the last time, Apple will not put a Blu-Ray drive in the Apple TV, since the quality would surpass that of the rental service Apple is going to debut.
Apple is not stupid enough to spend millions launching iTunes Movie Rentals and then undercut the download service by having customers say that discs are better.
A: I was joking. The idea of streaming Blu-Ray content from a box--hooked up to a TV--to a computer and watching on a monitor is completely ridiculous. I was snidely saying that AppleTV is a product without consumers.
B: Your vision of Apple's strategy may be completely on the nose. Of course they want to sell their iTunes content and they want AppleTV to be a major vehicle for just that. However, without anyone buying AppleTVs, it's largely a moot point.
C: A hi-def machine will always be better than online content (until there is an infrastructure for online HD content). Where Apple competes in the market for media isn't quality; it's convenience. Apple isn't stupid enough to claim their iTunes content will be better than physical media mediums; thus, the addition of a Blu-Ray player in the ATV wouldn't hurt their overall pitch.
Most general-purpose computing applications require text input. Handwriting is slower than typing. Machine-recognizable handwriting is *much* slower than typing.
True.
But sitting in class and not only having to write stuff down, but also draw small explanatory graphics in one document is nice.
And with the XP tablet edition you had the option to save a document in handwritten form and konvert it to machine-writing later when you review your notes.
And this last step is not as work intensive as it seems.
As I said, I've tried it. The app wasn't perfect, but more than usable and helpful.
a problem right now with the ipods is in the house, you need to be "at the ipod" -- mostly likely standing up and off of your couch -- to change songs, artists, etc...
even CD player systems have solved this problem a long time ago -- i have a 51 CD changer with remote.
with the ipod, there is no remote.
the solution is that the ipod, itself, becomes a sort of remote except the songs are stored on the ipod.
the songs or videos get streamed to your airport express, apple TV... maybe even your car decks if apple goes in that direction.
The font used is Myriad Pro Light. Not the typical Myriad used by Apple, but Myriad nonetheless.
...this is too dull for words (although, clearly not)!
Fonts, Phil Collins...?!
Get out, see some sunshine and commit a petty crime or something...
It's that time again -- the first round of non-descript Apple teaser banners have begun cropping up around San Francisco's Moscone Center, the site of next week's highly-anticipated Macworld Expo.
Sure to fuel rampant and widespread speculation for the next four days is a sprawling matte black banner hanging above the entrance to the south hall that reads simply:
"2008. There's something in the air."
Several other banners bearing the same phase are also visible through the windows of the south hall entrance.
[ View this article at AppleInsider.com ]
Just as it is necessary to own a computer to have an iPod or iPhone, so a completely wireless laptop might fill the niche between these handhelds and full-blown laptops and hence also boost desktop sales. Apple has a pattern of incorporating leverage and hence kick-backs into its devices so that they not only provide distributed income streams but form an inter-dependent ecosystem with one initiating the need, or desire, for another.
A dependent wireless laptop would boost desktop computer sales right when these are going into decline in the general shift toward portables. So here we have a really neat, desirable, oh-so-thin laptop with no moving parts save the screen-hinges and keys. Sort of a big, flat, iPod Touch with a gesture-sensitive trackpad for rotating and zooming, as well as the usual two-finger scroll. More importantly this is a portable that boosts iMac and Mac Pro sales contrary to the trend of every other manufacturer - a very neat solution to consolidating sales and boosting profits right out of thin air.
The use of the term "Air" also has a tradition in its association with WiFi and Apple: notably the AirPort.
Personally, I didn't expect this ultra-portable until Penryn mobile processors debuted, as the lower wattage and hence cooler-running and smaller battery made ultra-thinness possible.
I expect to see two models, say a 64 Gig Flash Drive and a 128 Gig. Expect 'g' and 'n' wireless, gesture sensitive Touchpad, LED backlit screen and a reasonably good, to very impressive, battery-life. With Flash-drive and Penryn-power, it'll be practically instant on and really quick and with integrated everything including graphics, it shouldn't cannibalize sales of MacBook Pro's for professional graphics use. I don't see induction charging - but you never know. When closed, the "Air" will probably still be thinner than a tablet PC. I think Apple would be hard pushed not to play with the words "thin air".
That's my guess. From Aero to Air. A neat solution to more than one problem.
Regards,
Peter C
A dependent wireless laptop would boost desktop computer sales right when these are going into decline in the general shift toward portables. So here we have a really neat, desirable, oh-so-thin laptop with no moving parts save the screen-hinges and keys. Sort of a big, flat, iPod Touch with a gesture-sensitive trackpad for rotating and zooming, as well as the usual two-finger scroll. More importantly this is a portable that boosts iMac and Mac Pro sales contrary to the trend of every other manufacturer - a very neat solution to consolidating sales and boosting profits right out of thin air.
From what your saying something new in their desktop range will be essential
The sales of desktops would be increased because the "Air"? would not be quite good enough to stand alone - certainly able, but not quite enough capacity or whatever.
Peter C
Peter C
I don't think a new desktop will be needed. A wireless ultra-portable would simply integrate like an iPod - but without the need for iTunes. It would just pop onto the Desktop of any computer on the network to which it had sharing rights.
The sales of desktops would be increased because the "Air"? would not be quite good enough to stand alone - certainly able, but not quite enough capacity or whatever.
Peter C
You crushed another theory for the xMac, you anti-cubist
No, "you fool" what about the people that do not need the services of .Mac but want the access, such as I, I am fine with my own server and gmail, thank you very much!
Surely if this idea goes ahead, then that will be one of the services of .Mac.
Therefore, you will need the services of .Mac.
Amorya
Tablets have *never* sold. Why?
Because they fill a need that does not exist. The only sensible application is blue-collar "vertical" apps. Tick box here. Select from menu. Get customer to sign here.
Most general-purpose computing applications require text input. Handwriting is slower than typing. Machine-recognizable handwriting is *much* slower than typing.
A tablet from Apple? Never
You're thinking too narrowly about what an Apple Tablet could be.
Steve Jobs didn't tout about MT so much just to sell the iPhone, it originated from Tablet designs. It's just taking Apple a little longer to come up with all the folder dragging, copy & pasting and all the regular computer jazz for its multi-touch UI. If you don't think Apple will ever make a tablet you are not seeing the obvious man, cause it's seems like a big truck coming down the road to me.
The iPhone is a revolution, now give us 10" screen, some real processing, desktops, folders and all that jazz and we have a "total revolution". It's coming, I am certain. It's kind of as obvious as Apple making televisions, it's a given.
All I have to say is Apple must be laughing at us crazies trying to pin down what their simple phrase means!
They can laugh all they want, I don't give a shit.