IBM PowerPC PDA chip
Interesting article about this IBM PDA processor.
What if Apple's PDA featured this PowerPC processor and a scale down version of OS X which would support all existing OS X software library and the following hardware features ?:
- 4" screen (check out MacWhispers' latest rumor for this)
- Firewire 400 (or 800)
- Bluetooth ready
- Airport ready (std or extreme)
- GSM/GPRS
- 10 GB HD (efature unavailable from any PDA today
- SD/Compact Flash 1 and 2 compatible to use extentions like cameras or to connect to a video projector
- GPS/Tuner FM/Television (TI makes a tiny chip that does all this)
And the following software features:
- Inkwell/Graphiti/virtual keyboard as input methods
- iTunes
- iPhoto
- Quicktime 6 to play movie files
- Safari for internet files or standalone flash apps
- iCal
- and even a "Pocket Keynote" for presentations on the go
All this perfectly syncronised with iSync.
From a hardware or software point of view, Apple masters all technologies. What are they waiting for ?
I read from a lot of you that you wish that the iPod remains as it is today. Very simple, very light and ... well nearly perfect. I think you are perfectly right. The iPod must remain what it is. A juke box player.
An Apple PDA would have a different target audience and both world can perfectly coexist alongside. So I think...and you ?
What do you think<a href="http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/splash/405lp/"; target="_blank">IBM PDA chip</a>
What if Apple's PDA featured this PowerPC processor and a scale down version of OS X which would support all existing OS X software library and the following hardware features ?:
- 4" screen (check out MacWhispers' latest rumor for this)
- Firewire 400 (or 800)
- Bluetooth ready
- Airport ready (std or extreme)
- GSM/GPRS
- 10 GB HD (efature unavailable from any PDA today
- SD/Compact Flash 1 and 2 compatible to use extentions like cameras or to connect to a video projector
- GPS/Tuner FM/Television (TI makes a tiny chip that does all this)
And the following software features:
- Inkwell/Graphiti/virtual keyboard as input methods
- iTunes
- iPhoto
- Quicktime 6 to play movie files
- Safari for internet files or standalone flash apps
- iCal
- and even a "Pocket Keynote" for presentations on the go
All this perfectly syncronised with iSync.
From a hardware or software point of view, Apple masters all technologies. What are they waiting for ?
I read from a lot of you that you wish that the iPod remains as it is today. Very simple, very light and ... well nearly perfect. I think you are perfectly right. The iPod must remain what it is. A juke box player.
An Apple PDA would have a different target audience and both world can perfectly coexist alongside. So I think...and you ?
What do you think<a href="http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/splash/405lp/"; target="_blank">IBM PDA chip</a>
Comments
Lemon Bon Bon
And just to blow the competition and to answer usual critics that the Mac would be another plateform to support for developers, Bla bla bla, I would ad a Palm OS 5 emulator, so this PDA would also support the HUGE Palm software library.
I can't wait
P.S:I am not sure about Palm OS 5 as it already includes a Palm OS 4 emulator. That would make Apple create an Emulator of emulator. Does that work ?
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<strong>OS X would need at least the power of a 440 series processor, either the 440GP or 440GX. But the added processing power would result in more power usage.</strong><hr></blockquote>
What about Darwin, and a new GUI that's source code compatible with some subset of an OS X API?
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What about Darwin, and a new GUI that's source code compatible with some subset of an OS X API?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Maybe. Could be why Apple has an interest in X11 all of a sudden.