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Oh, by the way, I'm a lifelong PC user who's considering the big switch. I love tablet PCs and the freedom they offer, and Mac coming out with a tablet would push me over into Macdom. We all know what they say:

Once you go Mac, you never go back.]]>Feb 6th 2006 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 9th 2006 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 27th 2006 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Jun 15th 2008 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.editthis.info/mac_tablet_pc_wiki/index.php/Main_Page]]>Mar 23rd 2006 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/May 7th 2006 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/May 10th 2006 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.laptopbatteryclub.com/]]>Dec 2nd 2009 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Nov 7th 2007 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.batteries-shop.net]]>Apr 8th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/

...Y.a.w.n.]]>Feb 2nd 2006 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
i suppose that MAC should be admonished for having monitors, mice and so on too. stop with the creepy, kneejerk PC vs MAC bulldada and grow up.]]>May 25th 2007 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
It's so obvious!]]>Feb 2nd 2006 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
Alternativley I could just have an overactive imagination......]]>Feb 2nd 2006 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
Those hands are scary. ]]>Feb 2nd 2006 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
Think of the nice video interface to a home media player this could be. Add high speed wireless and you have an Apple version of Location Free TV too.]]>Feb 2nd 2006 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
put it down all you want, but I think it's interesting to see Apple bring their iPod scroll-wheel to the tablet UI, which to me seems like a make-or-break move(think Sony's Jog-Dial, which was tested on early Vaio laptops, then subsequently killed).]]>Feb 2nd 2006 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
Yinda hard not too when all Microsoft did with their interface is slap a bunch of addon cabs into XP and add a memory leak and call it done. Honestly you’d think Microsoft would have learned its lesson with their Palm sized PC experiment. That being that the Windows standard interface does NOT fit all form factors. Something they somewhat learned with the Pocket PC. If Microsoft and their FANatics want people to stop hacking on them they shouldn’t make it so damn easy.]]>Feb 2nd 2006 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
Just what I was thinking... I'm still using two TouchStreams, one at work and one at home so I don't have to lug them around...

Let's just hope that Apple maintains the same level of tech that the Fingerworks guys came up with.]]>Feb 2nd 2006 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 2nd 2006 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/2 TOUCHSTREAMS!!!! MAN THAT'S A GOLD MINE YOU JUST CAN'T AFFORD TO MINE!
they're still going for about $800 a piece on ebay and i wouldn't sell mine for twice the price except the day before the start selling them again only this time not maroon!]]>Feb 2nd 2006 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
]]>Feb 2nd 2006 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 3rd 2006 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Feb 3rd 2006 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
Have a little foresight and welcome to the 21st century.]]>Feb 3rd 2006 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/Most of the multi-touch input and bimanual (2-handed) gestures on touch surfaces have been done and published before. See the videos and published papers for the DiamondTouch multi-touch multi-user tabletop tablet and work done at University of Toronto by Mike Wu:
http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mchi/
http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2005-096/
http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2005-109/]]>Feb 3rd 2006 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/02/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac-part-ii/
i agree. its def an ipod thats all screen, for maximizing movies but also using the scroll wheel. be wicked if it was also a remote control for my mac, change songs and stuff and my mac plays it through my speakers]]>Feb 3rd 2006 7:45AM