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A Mac tablet? Not just yes, but 'heck yes' {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 23rd 2008 8:02PM Well, the "debate over" remark was not really that serious ...
But I it does get on my nerves to hear the crying for something like a tablet, when you can clearly see that it just won't work. Not as a PC, I mean.
The only real place something like this would have is as a media and internet device.
Lets look at the what a table could be:
It couldn't be larger than about a 15" Notebook display.
How do you hold such a thing and use it at the same time?
Let's make it smaller: 12" widescreen?
Still: holding and using it could be difficult. There must be some kind of bevel / area where you can hold it.
Then: how much would it weigh at this size?
Would it be comfortable to hold it with one hand, if you can hold it with one hand. Probably no for both.
You would have to lay it down most of the time, as we have seen in almost every demo of such products.
So: what can you do with your fingers?
Surfing, Media, Email. Even small office work is hard, when you have to do it on device that you have to look on down and use your fingers on, because typing is really uncomfortable like this.
Still, it would be a nice little gimmick, for media and so on.
But then we could make it even a little smaller, 10", maybe 8" ... Now you get to a size where can hold it with one or both hands. But at this size you can not really use it for more then media, surfing and email ... and Apps like those on the iPhone.
So: don't you get it? A "big" tablet is non sense.
I might find a device, which is larger than the iPhone, interessting, but still: low priority.
Now that the App Store is open you can see how diverse the usage for the iPhone and the iPod touch is and that the small screen is not bad for surfing and apps at all.
A larger device, as said, would be maybe interessting as some kind of "companion" ... when you don't need a Notebook, but still a little computer.
But do you think that counts as a Tablet?
And: do you think that's high priority?
When the iPhone and the Touch are settled in, I believe we could certainly see something like that from Apple.
And Apple is the only one who could do a "UMPC" right.
But now I'm curious how they will change the Lineup and what they will add - other than Centrino 2 - to their Notebooks.
I think there will be something with Multitouch. As an Input option. But not directly on the screen. That makes no sense on Notebooks or Desktops.
Just look at the HP thing, or who ever made that iMac clone with touch screen: who the heck wants to use his hands on a vertical 20" screen in front of you: nobody.
I think we'll see slimmer MacBook Pro, with dual graphics - Centrino 2 - and maybe a larger Multitouch area. Maybe we'll see a smaller MacBook Pro.
Something's got to happen to the Mac Mini. It must.
If they had upgraded it to Santa Rosa I might already have bought one.
But what Apple meant with "transition" ... well: of course everybody starts to dream!
Me too!
A Mac tablet? Not just yes, but 'heck yes' {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 23rd 2008 1:21PM Of course everything is changing.
And we will need no input devices for a lot of things.
But a Tablet will NEVER EVER replace a computer, or be an allround device. It just doesn't work
A Tablet device can only be for special purposes.
Surfing, Media ...
For everything else you need at least a keyboard.
And finger input is great, multiouch = awesome.
But not precise enough!
Touch is great, the future; but not in the nonsense form of a Tablet, which is too big drag it along nicely, too big for comfortable touch input . you would have to lay it down all the time and too small for real computing you can do with a Notebook. It makes no sense, though it's cool looking ;)
Apple is doing it the right way: keep touch to devices where it makes sense: "companions".
Extend the other computers with Multitouch as an optional input.
Debate over ... hopefully.
Instead of Tablet I'd like to see:
A real "Mac" = an affordable, extendable Desktop.
A redesign of the MacBook Pro, possibly with a 13" Version.
Redesign of the MacBook casing, because it sucks.
Redesign of the Mac Mini.
This all is way ahead of the gimmicky Tablet thing, for me.
Electric MINI hitting US streets in summer 2009 {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2008 12:44PM Cool ... and when will we:
"Plug into iTunes to restore".
No, really, great!
But where's the electric power coming from?
Windmills and Solar? Probably not.
I hope that Fusion Reactor project in France will finally get more funding and not more protests by "Greens", because it has something to do with "Atom" ...
Go Electric Fusion ... Mini ! ;)
Open Tech's "Mac clone" demonstrates a firm misunderstanding of the law {Engadget}
Jul 22nd 2008 6:59AM Sure, I can understand why everyone would like to buy a cheap box and install fine Leopard on it.
But this is short sighted and nonsense.
People: Stop regarding computers as "spec lists".
The OpenTech computers are a good example: the pure numbers look good and they are "cheaper" than Mac and have the certain appeal of gaming graphics card, so money of you seem to need, but:
It is just a box of standard components stuffed into an UGLY, cheao, case. You will not have the brilliant Service Apple offers, you will not have the quality build, the brilliant design, the reliability of the hardware and you will not have the superb software that is included with every Mac you buy.
Opening up Mac OS to other computers will be BAD for customers, not GOOD! I'm a Mac switcher and I don't want that to happen, because everybody knows the consequences!
Apple still gives you the freedom of choice: you can EASILY, more easy than on ANY OTHER computer from any other company, install another OS. They gone great length with Boot Camp to make it so easy that even my girlfriend can do that.
So, again: if you think the OpenTech is a value buy, please try to understand that computers are more than a list of components.
The iMac is not expensive, for example.
It's brilliantly designed, it's hardware is perfect for anything the target audience would do with it and then don't forget what you get in addition:
A brilliant OS that costs 129$ on the free market, the iLife suite which is also a brilliant piece of software and you get great service.
And who ever had the joy to use a Mac Pro and have to open it up and look inside knows why it is actually CHEAP compared what you get from PC companies as an alternative.
So please stop you "Monopoly" bullshit.
Yes, Apple RIGHTLY has the "Monopoly" on the stuff THEY MAKE!
As I have the copyrights on my work, too.
Holy something of something ... ! ;)
Re-thinking the iPhone's home screen {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 21st 2008 5:04PM I don't see the point of this discussion.
Only a small number of people would actually mess up there phone like this. Why keep an app on the phone that you don't need at least once a week?
Let me Explain how brilliantly Apple provided a solution, which you don't seem to see:
The App Store was designed, from the ground up, to be not only a store, but kind of repository and an archive, as well AND it was designed to be accessible from anywhere, any time, through the iPhones Internet connection:
It is save to delete an App, even if you bought it, because you can easily reinstall a Programm from the App Store, withut having to pay for it.
You don't need to keep all on it, all the time.
How often will you need that E-Book, after you have read it? Do you need 10 games installed at the same time?
Problem sovled.
And for 95% of users there isn't even a problem with the Home Screen, because they won't have 50 Apps at once.
NVIDIA's GeForce 9700M / 9800M laptop GPUs get quasi-official {Engadget}
Jul 18th 2008 10:48AM I hope the long rumored overhaul of the MacBook Pro will be ready soon ... and HOPEFULLY with at least a 9800m GT ... this time ...
Ach, who am I kidding: I'm gonna get the new one anyway ... this time ...
Palm Treo 800w for Sprint unboxing and hands-on at Engadget Mobile {Engadget}
Jul 14th 2008 9:19AM Wuuuuu! Hellooooo early 90s!
Goodbye Palm!
iPhone activation servers back online; stock updates from around the world {Engadget}
Jul 12th 2008 3:03AM No, not necessary.
He has a Dell Laptop, that's enough beating.
If he's got Vista on, they should even all hug him and say something supportive, maybe give him a cookie, too.
iPhone 3G first look, what do you want to know? {Engadget}
Jul 10th 2008 9:15AM So many as I needs to get into people's heads what's wrong about Windows Mobile and Symbian - and Google OS phone thingy:
Terrible backwards, stoneage UI concepts.
Like a friggin' TASKMANAGER ON YOUR PHONE to close those background apps everybody's whining about, but Apple did better with the notification service they implemented:
I don't care who does it, I'm not bound to a company: but currently Apple is the only company CHANGING something!
And that's great.
I mean: look at the N95 etc: they all have lots of functions, but everything is designed so bad that I say: Thank you, keep it.
I'll rather be honest and see what I don't need and get a device that just WORKS.
Again: it is not about APPLE, or any OTHER COMPANY:
It's about making technology better, making interaction with the user better. And I'm glad the iPhone has some effect, although the copys of the iPhone we see today are still badly designed, because the UI concepts are not thought over, because friggin' MARKETING wants to satisfy everybody . can it cook coffee? ;)
Live from D: Gates and Ballmer debut Windows 7 {Engadget}
May 27th 2008 11:18PM FordGTGuy:
Haha.
The Windows user interface is slow, bloatet, old uncomfortable.
There's a alot more to the user interface than the Start Button.
Just for example:
It maybe fine for you, but not for my mother, girlfriend, sister and brother to install a driver.
How does anybody have to know what a driver is?
How do we have to keep up with this crap: it simply has to work and the computer shiat has to completly dissappear into the background.
I mean, whenever I turn on a PC I laugh about the BIOS startup messages: It may give some nerds a hard one: but NOBODY CARES, nobody hast to know that your hard drive is on Bus-0.
It's 2008 and NOTHING has changed, user interface wise, for 10 years in Windows! 10 years!
And whenever somebody says something negativ, and god forbid, compares it to Mac OS, the flaming starts:
instead you should try to understand what's different about OSX, for example, and why it whipes the floor in every usability test with every Windows version out there.
MS focuses so much on the technology aspects and they change not one thing about crappy interface concept.
And that's bad: because it is on practicly every PC: and that's bad for people.
IT's all the nerds fault, who don't understand what 95% of people use a PC for.
