@OMG! Ponies!: Agreed. You just can't get all of the feel of the design just looking at a CGI rendering. In studio we did lots of models for vehicles and the sort that we had to craft ourselves. While I would've enjoyed doing 3D modeling, having your idea exist physically is far more satisfying.
@TheWerewolf: Art projects are often very time consuming, and if an artist has lots of free time, what better way to spend that time than on more art projects.
I hope it's a ten inch iPod touch that can be both portable and wall mounted like a central/family info center. Kids and family can touch icons for news, weather, e-mail and pop it off the wall and carry it with them throughout the house as an Internet device or remote control. Make apps for Apple TV or Slingbox and it becomes a 1 inch portable TV getting the content over WiFi. Instant on. Games, photos, etc just like the Touch would be great. I'd buy it if the price is right.
Why wouldn't they just make it iphone compatible...and say "Hey guys, why buy a Kindle for x amount of dollars, when you can have a phone, ipod, AND reader all in one device?!"
$599 16GB, $699 32GB, and the Apple faithful will line up around the corner. Would be a brilliant marketing scheme to coordinate with campuses and digitize textbooks, especially with 8.5 x 11 form factor. Take notes, read the textbook, stream info back and forth from the teacher,look at porn.
Plus its easier to brag about your itab (patent pending) when its bigger and in the open.
@adrunkenmonkey: That would make sense in light of Apple hiring Joel Podolny as "vice president and dean of Apple University." Apple has yet to say what Apple University or Joel Podolny are doing. Maybe it's this.
I am skeptical. There is no way that an Apple product with a 10" touch screen will be priced competitively with the Kindle 2 (as expensive as it is). Plus, without E-ink, Apple will need a revolutionary new power system to reach E-book-like battery life. An Apple tablet netbook has so much more potential.
@keerock: Google's book search was done without the permission of publishers - actually, if I remember correctly they fought it pretty hard. They also fought Amazon's Search Inside feature as well. But that was because the publishers viewed it as violating the copyright while Amazon and Google were adding the feature for their users under a Fair Use argument. And it was before ebooks really took off and before there was a retail outlet for them like Sony and Amazon's stores. My understanding is that any ebook being sold now is delivered electronically from the publisher to the retailer, so it would make no sense whatsoever for Apple to be scanning books at this point. None. So I'm with selianth and Walljasper in thinking this part of the story makes the whole thing implausible.
Apple will not be coming out with an ebook reader. Ever. A tablet computer? Maybe. That could read ebooks? Well, since Amazon's Kindle books are now available on Apple's iPhone/iPod Touch OS, sure. Why not. But never a dedicated reader or even an ebook store.
Do we really need yet another e-reader? A fully-blown computer with a tablet form factor can be used to read text, but then can be used to do just about anything else. If it's not a full-blown computer, but rather a big text-centric iPod-sans-music-book-fucker, do not want.
What I'd like it something I can use like a portable Cintiq-esque drawing tablet. Pretty please, with heroin on top?
@Kaiser-Machead: I guess I can just go and get a Fujitsu lifebook, or maybe even a (shudder), gateway. But for my purposes, I wouldn't need a keyboard, since it would be used solely for artwork.
@Kaiser-Machead: Lenovo X200t, it's the tablet I'm using and I'm quite happy with it. Wacom technology in the screen (not as high res as the Cintiq, but better than say, an Art-Z) and a really good battery life. Moreso if you get the extended battery, which not only gives you more battery, but gives you a really good hand hold in tablet mode.
@Skunky: Part of the reason why I'm hoping Apple releases a good tablet is because it would allow me to transfer all of the software I've already purchased to the new system.
Having that double as a portable drawing tablet would be a huge plus. Hell, if it's at least as powerful as a Macbook I'd use it as a performance tool, instead of buying a JazzMutant Lemur for $2000.
Linux advocates remind me of bicycles. No, really.
More than a century ago, when cycling was first becoming popular, a Victorian humorist named Jerome K. Jerome pointed out that you could either ride a bike or "maintain" a bike -- but not both. The bikes of "maintainers" are always in several pieces because they are tightening the spokes, adjusting the chain, replacing the brakes, or something. They never actually get to ride their bikes. If you enjoy riding, he advised, never, ever try to maintain your bike.
And this is precisely what the Linux advocates don't understand: while they may get great pleasure from the process of assembling, tuning and tweaking the ideal setup, some of us just want to get on and go for a ride.
@iPhoneUser: such a fan boy... you would buy a box full of dog crap if apple put their logo on it and say it was the best thing. Just make yourself a hackintosh and save your money.
@TheCrudMan: "Low-end" specifications for the Mac Pro weigh in at over $2,200. On top of that, you still have a lot of machine that you don't need. I think the kind of form factor many are here wishing for is something along the size of one of the smaller Dell XPS slimline systems, or the like. It would have a full desktop hard drive, proper desktop components and greater expandability than an iMac or Mac Mini, but not be overkill for anyone who just wants a modest workhorse for the desk.
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Also, this is why we still need shop class.
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Not to mention a kind of creepy attachment to a commercial product.
Kind of one step before tattooing an Apple logo on your arm.
Because.. you know... only Zune freaks do that...
Oh.. wait...
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Art is hard, criticism is easy.
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Plus its easier to brag about your itab (patent pending) when its bigger and in the open.
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Well, maybe they're building one for the employees? Oh snap!
My guess is they're plotting the next Apple Store, which will feature a fully functional interactive touchscreen exterior.
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SIlly, daft.
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But then again, Apple wouldn't be in the business of scanning old books so I think you're right.
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Apple will not be coming out with an ebook reader. Ever. A tablet computer? Maybe. That could read ebooks? Well, since Amazon's Kindle books are now available on Apple's iPhone/iPod Touch OS, sure. Why not. But never a dedicated reader or even an ebook store.
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Do we really need yet another e-reader? A fully-blown computer with a tablet form factor can be used to read text, but then can be used to do just about anything else. If it's not a full-blown computer, but rather a big text-centric iPod-sans-music-book-fucker, do not want.
What I'd like it something I can use like a portable Cintiq-esque drawing tablet. Pretty please, with heroin on top?
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Having that double as a portable drawing tablet would be a huge plus. Hell, if it's at least as powerful as a Macbook I'd use it as a performance tool, instead of buying a JazzMutant Lemur for $2000.
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More than a century ago, when cycling was first becoming popular, a Victorian humorist named Jerome K. Jerome pointed out that you could either ride a bike or "maintain" a bike -- but not both. The bikes of "maintainers" are always in several pieces because they are tightening the spokes, adjusting the chain, replacing the brakes, or something. They never actually get to ride their bikes. If you enjoy riding, he advised, never, ever try to maintain your bike.
And this is precisely what the Linux advocates don't understand: while they may get great pleasure from the process of assembling, tuning and tweaking the ideal setup, some of us just want to get on and go for a ride.
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STAR FOR YOU SIR!!
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hope I can put a sim card in there for mobile internet and not just wifi
and will buy it for sure :)
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Just configure a mac pro to low end specifications.
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