a lot of sweet entries, you guys had a tough choice.

Sexiness.

Yeah great work on everyones behalf. I'd purchase any of those.

Looks hella Sweet!

Holy gezz...I actually for a second (a very frightening one at that) thought Apple came out with a new tablet completely from the left field.

Nice work guys, you had me fooled hahaha

I think honorable mention should go to the magnetic keyboard entry for practicality alone. I kept thinking about how they could pull of a keyboard in a manner elegant enough for Apple, and I think that's actually a possibility. I think the keyboard base would probably be significantly thinner than the rendering though, and would need to have some sort of rubber bumpers to prevent scratching of the screen bezel... but none-the-less it's a great idea.

They look great. It must have been difficult making the final decision.

LMAO @ iPhone Pro

Wow. If these are ever actually produced, that will be enough to finally convince me to switch to Team Apple.

awesome!

ummm.... don't these kind of already exist?
[www.axiotron.com]
Mod books are tablet Mac books that are pretty damn slick. Being an artist, I think I'd go for one of those rather than a touch screen... unless they could combine them somehow. That'd get my money in a heartbeat.

If it costs more than $1000 then screw you, I cant afford it.

@leadster618:
no multitouch = FAIL

@leadster618:

"Mod books are tablet Mac books that are pretty damn slick. Being an artist, I think I'd go for one of those rather than a touch screen... unless they could combine them somehow. That'd get my money in a heartbeat."

Being an artist is the only way you could go for one of those Mod Books since you would have to have a pretty artistic imagination to think that they're actually shipping those things.

Super-slim means no airflow. I hope it comes with oven-mitts to handle the lovely aluminum case.

I believe these concepts all fall short of something Apple would ultimately do.

1) Apple sees the Mac as the hub and anything else as an accompaniment device that hooks back to your Mac. I do not think Apple would see a tablet differently. In fact, I think they would see a tablet exactly that way.

2) Apple's drive to create new devices comes with more patience than most companies will hope to ever have. Until they get it pretty much right, it won't be released. The Garageband multi-touch application in the winning entry is the only thing I see in these that speaks to me of "Apple" which, I am sure, is why it was chosen.

3) These entries reek of failure in the market. Some are too big (as biased as I am, I think I would allow for a breadth of different sizes here). Others seem unwieldy in how they interpret how the interface would ultimately be seen (menus are too small to be "touched" effectively).

4) I cannot personally see any of these being made to reality. Perhaps with a bit more time these designers could have found proper inspiration to hear Apple's heartbeat in items being peripheral to the computer as opposed to actually being a computer.

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All this being said, I personally would love an Apple tablet. Something offering enough capability, a bright LED back-lit display perhaps around 2.5x the size of the iPhone with decent enough battery life, enough RAM to suffice most daily activities (I see 1-2GB) and dedicated storage enough to handle media files, document storage, and a copy of my standard home folder (see 80-120GB) but solid-state.

@nutbastard: I completely agree with you here. I don't think Apple will make all too many more portable devices (note: I did not say laptop devices) without the use of multi-touch. This is another industry changes that's going to apply to so many areas I can't even enumerate them here.

Yup, I would actually buy the winning entry.
It looks sweet, handy and robust enough to be dragged around all day in the university.

The large sized graphic looks like it was reduced in size without any kind of anti-aliasing. Seems like the graphic is 966x822 but it is displaying as 800x681 on the page.

Sweet. Many a moment has come and gone when I've wished I could "swim" out to make my iPhone larger.

Grow, dammit. Grow!

@EMoShunz:
i'll say. how many ways can you possibly design an aluminum rectangle with a screen that covers 95% of the surface? picking a winner must have been like trying to pick needle in a needlestack.

For a bunch of guys that should be using their computers all the time for photo editing, i expected much better. Alot of them are pretty awful. Most were pretty lazy and just resized existing Apple products (the iMac shrunk down takes the cake for tasteless). I could have done that as a first tutorial to photoshop.

And dont ask me to make one of my own. I dont care enough to waste my time realizing fantasy.

@diabolusunknown:

"I dont care enough to waste my time realizing fantasy."

Realizing fantasy has arguably fueled all human accomplishment.

One word for you: fail.

I thought there would be more entries then this.

@doinka: "Hit the jump to see the 20 other notable entries."

I would guess that there were more than a few non-notable entries.

@diabolusunknown: well, they did take the time, for my enjoyment, so i am grateful.

nice pics.. but that newton pic sucked.. thats like a 5min entry.. too easey

The keyboard in garageband is clever, so I give props to the creator, but in reality it would be brutally unusable.