I wouldn't say your alone in thinking that, but I'm still saying Macworld 2009. When Apple does announce this tablet they will continue to sell laptops [I hate calling them notebooks]. So they can afford to continually invest in research to make its existing laptops better than they are.
This tablet I envision will about a specific size at first [around 11"]. A lot of people will still want 15" and 17", so they won't be buying this product, or maybe they might buy both. The 11" tablet would be a Mac and will run Mac OS X, and will in my opinion go hand in hand with a desktop computer. I'd say there's a possibility this tablet will be Mac only, as in only sync with Macs, but that remains to be seen.
Apple isn't finished developing their Mac touch 1.0 yet, and technology is also playing catch up.
Do you own an iPhone?
The difference between performing MT gestures on a trackpad and directly manipuling the software on screen is "huge" to me, that's well enough different. Not to mention the size this tablet is going to be. And they need not worry, but the time the tablet arrives the Air will be much faster etc. So they will be sufficiently different.
Well, MacWorld 2009 doesn't do me any good. I need a tablet sooner than that. HP TX2000 here I come!
I don't own an iPhone but I do own an iPod touch. And while I agree there is a big difference between trackpad and on screen manipulation, would most people see that the same way? I really think there needs to be something else, a killer app or a additional aspect to it to really draw in that last little bit. Maybe someway to write/draw? I know it wont appeal to the presetablished tablet market without that.
I hope Apple does one day develop a tablet so I don't get stuck with an HP Vista machine for too long.
At first, i was thinking: "Well whats the difference between this and the standard CTRL-C and CTRL-V for copy/paste, and CTRL-left arrow for Back? If anything it'll be quicker using keyboard shortcuts than the massive trackpad."
Then it dawned on me from reading the above posts that I missed the bigger picture: a machine with NO keyboard, ie iPhone and Tablet-like Mac. I just hope that that current iPhone can be updated to understand these additional gestures!
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I wouldn't say your alone in thinking that, but I'm still saying Macworld 2009. When Apple does announce this tablet they will continue to sell laptops [I hate calling them notebooks]. So they can afford to continually invest in research to make its existing laptops better than they are.
This tablet I envision will about a specific size at first [around 11"]. A lot of people will still want 15" and 17", so they won't be buying this product, or maybe they might buy both. The 11" tablet would be a Mac and will run Mac OS X, and will in my opinion go hand in hand with a desktop computer. I'd say there's a possibility this tablet will be Mac only, as in only sync with Macs, but that remains to be seen.
Apple isn't finished developing their Mac touch 1.0 yet, and technology is also playing catch up.
Do you own an iPhone?
The difference between performing MT gestures on a trackpad and directly manipuling the software on screen is "huge" to me, that's well enough different. Not to mention the size this tablet is going to be. And they need not worry, but the time the tablet arrives the Air will be much faster etc. So they will be sufficiently different.
Well, MacWorld 2009 doesn't do me any good. I need a tablet sooner than that. HP TX2000 here I come!
I don't own an iPhone but I do own an iPod touch. And while I agree there is a big difference between trackpad and on screen manipulation, would most people see that the same way? I really think there needs to be something else, a killer app or a additional aspect to it to really draw in that last little bit. Maybe someway to write/draw? I know it wont appeal to the presetablished tablet market without that.
I hope Apple does one day develop a tablet so I don't get stuck with an HP Vista machine for too long.
WIll there be a special gesture for the middle finger?
A kernel panic.
Then it dawned on me from reading the above posts that I missed the bigger picture: a machine with NO keyboard, ie iPhone and Tablet-like Mac. I just hope that that current iPhone can be updated to understand these additional gestures!
WIll there be a special gesture for the middle finger?
LMAO
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It's the end of the mouse as we know it (and I feel fine).
I wouldn't say your alone in thinking that, but I'm still saying Macworld 2009.
Forgive me, but didn't you also say MW 2008? and WWDC 2007 as well?
still wishful thinking?
unless of course you are following the "say it often enough and eventually it will be true" approach?
here is my multi million dollar concept:
-time to put the apple mouse as a full surface touch pad!
Ireland and I had the same idea many moons ago. It still might happen... or it might not.