With the power of the ATOM, I believe the Macbook Touch could compete directly with PSP, XBOX, and Wii by allowing it to hook up to an actual HDTV or receiver. The plus to the Tablet is that it has its own screen and hence is portable!!!

If all of this were included with the ability to download games directly from home, the bluetooth headset, and a controller….. tears of joy would stream down my face.

xpPhone
http://www.xpphone.com/en/product/configuration.html

http://www.touchuserguide.com/apple/tablet/2009/08/19/leaked-shot-of-apples-website-showing-macbook-touch

http://www.touchuserguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Picture-16.png

http://www.touchuserguide.com

Not pocketable? Who cares!

It can happily live in your school bag/man bag/brief case, taking up less space/weight than a laptop and probably having a much better battery life. Check your email and surf the web on the go without the hassle of firing up a laptop – view photographs, presentation mock-ups, watch movies and music videos on the beach, where you wouldn’t take your air or macbook pro.

Not good for mouse/keyboard/graphics intensive gaming?
Who cares! Those products already exist, the market is catered for. Imagine a wireless MIDI controller or DMX controller for lighting applications/music production, or as a tool for students to read lecture notes. Or as a medical reference tool for doctors…

…the potential of this product is amazing, and I for one am incredibly excited. I don’t want to read/watch movies on an iPhone/iPod touch screen, nor do i enjoy browsing the web on such a small device, but if I could have one of these living in my bag alongside my digital camera – and even better – if this thing had an SD card slot, I’m sold.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoboer/3226244527

Wow!!!

OQO model 2+
http://www.oqo.com

If only Apple purchased the now closed company and made an OQO and an OQOtablet, both with Mac OS X inside…

- Less Room, nicer and stronger design of the device (with a keyboard, you need to find a solution to show/hide the keyboard, etc…)

- More flexible language and characters (It’s easier to change in software the layout of a keyboard… It makes only one device you can use with different language and keyboard layout). It’s then better for the manufacture to have only one model to sell around the world.

- Larger screen view… The Virtual Keyboard can be hidden when we don’t need it and then enjoy the large screen to read.

- Immediate feedback on the screen and auto-correction. The iPhone system is really well done… I type faster on the iPhone than my previous phone. The problem, you just have to trust the system and don’t pay attention if you miss a key… it will correct it for you.

- BlueTooth if someone really need a real physical keyboard and mouse. Apple already has some great wireless Mouse and keyboard, it could work perfectly in this case… I can even imagine a traveler case where you have the mini wireless keyboard and the tablet in a “laptop configuration”.

CrunchPad: The Launch Prototype
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype

Watch the ARCHOS 9PCtablet at 23:01 to 28:00 min (1381/2196 s) on this keynote video:

http://www.archos.com/corporate/event_062009.html?country=us&lang=en

That is!

Part 1.

The MacSlate is fantastic. I would make two models:

- A large one .
- A pocketable one.

The large one model concept has been already explained (MacSlate). The pocketable model concept would be similar to the OQO in size, being a touch tablet. Just like the large one, but 200 g or so and pocketable like the OQO.

Apple should release them ASAP, and better than the ARCHOS 9PCtablet:

http://www.archos.com/products/nb/archos_9/index.html?country=us&lang=en

Picture:
http://www.archos.com/img/archos_9/ARCHOS-9-Intro.jpg
[img]http://www.archos.com/img/archos_9/ARCHOS-9-Intro.jpg[/img]

Thanks,
Phil

Enjoy

Thanks.

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Apple iNetbook
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3462/3180980176_a7226446aa.jpg?v=0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoboer/3180980176

Every new features such cut/copy/paste, the horizontal keyboard, the spotlight search, etc… would be perfect and would make sense in a larger touchscreen device.

Like already said, I don’t care about the OS (if it’s a full OS X or a specific version such the iphone). As long the OS will be stable, durable, and open enough to be expand… I’ll be fine. The iPhone + App Store revealed to work pretty well so far…

Of course, a device like described in this post, would absolutely required a mobile version of iLife and iWork (including ALL applications such: iTunes, iChat, Adress Book, iCal, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, Garage Band, Cover Flow, Pages, Numbers and Keynote, etc…)

Lately, the $19.99 “Premium Games” have open the door of Premium Applications…. So it’s not crazy now to imagine having iLife and iWork available that way.

There’s no doubt the future of “netbook” will be to go online everywhere… with a broadband plan (3G or higher). It will then increase and complete the experience to have Internet everywhere with you in a small device. There’s also no doubt that this kind of strategy will work fine to reduce the selling price (which will be include in the data plan price).

Technology wise, the phone company need a new way to make money since a lot of people (and the new generation people) will only use internet for everything… (including, phone, visio conf, etc…). So it will be easier to have a monthly payement for the plan…

Technology wise again, there’s no doubt Apple will converge for an “all electronic” model… It would just make sense to have an App Store for Portable device as for the Desktop, Laptop, etc… it will just to consist to encapsule the .dmg installer file (or even the .app file) in the iTunes App Manager…

From what I wrote previously, I see few adjustment, which will consist to have a Display port (instead VGA/DVI/etc…), and probably no Card Reader…

I’m pretty sure it will happen and be announced in the same time of the new iPhone (mid-june ?)… and maybe just called iPhone Pro…. who knows?

I would just like to know if Apple came have a look on this post (at least once )

Phil

The current iPhone and iPod touch have a serious limitation: OS X. See my previous messages for full details. Hint: Keynote and PowerPoint presentations. More hints: OQO. See above.

Go Apple!

I’ved owned a couple of Netbooks, utter rubbish: too small/low powered for serious typing/mousing gaming, and too big to take with you anywhere in a POCKET. If I were female and had a cavernous handbag I may consider it.

I read eBooks on my iPhone all the time, I control my macs and pc’s from anywhere using LogMeIn Ignition, and I use it more than my Macbook because it is with me at all times, like a watch is. Any bigger and it won’t be a device I’ll have with me at all times. Sure, nerdy geeks and tech people won’t mind carrying tablets but the average consumer won’t look at it twice.

It’s a failed idea, I loved the Newton and wish they’d add more of it’s functionality to the iPhone in places, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Not anymore, this isn’t 1995!

Think star trek… Sure they have those message pads being handed around with info on them, but do they take them down to the surface on away missions? No, they have tricorders which fit in the pocket. On the ship, do they do any serious work on them? No, not ever… it’s all on laptops or the fixed ships computers.

Hmm, I didn’t personally put myself in the troll-land…

I would say I’m a dreamer and I put some time to realize this page, to hopefully attract the attention of Apple and share my point of view with other people like you.

Does it make me a troll? I don’t think…. I respect each opinion and never claim I did know the truth. Everything here, is nothing more or less than a WISH.

That’s what I wish for… and after all, it’s pretty soon Christmas, we can all have some wishes and hopes.

Anyway, we will have the reply for the coming soon MacWorld (if they do something ).

Bye,
Phil