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I have been playing with a Tablet PC recently (running the tablet version of windows XP), and I have to say, I love it. If Apple were to introduce a 10" tablet Mac with a form factor like the Fujitsu Stylistic, I'd buy one.]]>Jul 26th 2007 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac/

oh look and in the picture the guy is using his finger not a stylus!]]>Jul 26th 2007 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/10/apples-patented-the-tablet-mac/

and the guy in the picture is using his finger not a stylus.. imagine that! multi-touch anyone?!?!?!/]]>Jul 26th 2007 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
:)]]>Jul 26th 2007 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
Now combine a pen for handwriting and multitouch for everything else...then you might have something.]]>Jul 26th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/no hard drive, in its space room
to "plug-in" my iPhone...
so the tablet is an extension of the iPhone
with speaker phone and much larger screen
running leopard/vista and my hotel rez admin package...so I can take calls and reservations
anywhere on my 9 acre property over my wi-fi.
I's love this to have an intercom thingie too;
but then I maybe may be asking too much.

So, no macBook, rez-book, and a cordless phone to carry about no more!]]>Jul 26th 2007 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/an overpriced PoS. ]]>Jul 26th 2007 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/]]>Jul 26th 2007 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
Yeah, that'll happen!]]>Jul 26th 2007 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/

Crippled phones.....that's a good one. Which phone has crippled bluetooth that only allows for a headset, locked firmware that has to be hacked, and an expensive price tag for less features?

2 things: Verizon phones and the iPhone.

CDMA also doesn't use SIM cards, instead opting for ESN numbers held on their computers. It's as simple as logging on the VZW account website, switch an ESN, and bam you can use a new phone. Not as glorious as switching a SIM card, but I can hot swap phones in a single day. Downloading a free application syncs all my contacts for FREE. ]]>Jul 26th 2007 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
re: Crippled phones

I never said the iPhone wasn't crippled. It's definitely LESS crippled than the crap Verizon does to perfectly good phones, and it could definitely be better - but I never made any reference to the iPhone.

And everyone knows CDMA is a load of rubbish, come on.]]>Jul 26th 2007 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
My env can do more than just sync with a headset. It can transfer pics and videos with the OBEX profile and tether my Ev-Do 3G connection.

And there are Verizon phones with SIM cards. And CDMA isn't rubbish. Maybe if you count qualcomm's monopoly on it, but it's just been toppled by broadcom.

And the use of the iPhone was simply for reference of a recent non-verizon (and non-cdma) phone that was released crippled.]]>Jul 26th 2007 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
My money (and my wife's hopes) are on variously colored MacBooks, a la the Nano, Shuffle, etc.]]>Jul 26th 2007 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
Creative is working on new ZEN players, which should come out this fall. So, stop looking at the Apple & the iPod and take a look at Creative]]>Jul 26th 2007 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
Also, Apple didn't steal Creative's user-interface design. Apple based theirs on their scrolling column view in finder, Creative came up with a similar idea at the same time, and got the patent in on it first.]]>Jul 26th 2007 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
I am so calling you out - I think you work for Creative. That, or you are the biggest, most dedicated fanboy on the planet. With all the time and effort you've put into your pro-Creative campaign, I hope to God they are paying you.

@Everyone:

Run a Google search for: "Davin Peterson" Creative - there are over 20 Google pages of hits of this one guy, spouting Creative PR all over the Interwebs! I don't know whether to laugh or cry. See for yourself:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Davin+Peterson%22+creative&hl=en&start=20&sa=N

hey - at least he's going for the underdog. And iPods aren't for everyone; some people are like Sir Mix-a-Lot: they like...big...MP3 players. And they cannot lie.

@fanboys:

(I own neither, btw)]]>Jul 26th 2007 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
I am a Apple fanatic, but even I can see that multi-button mouses are, for most uses, far superior. Come on Apple, drop the freakin' one-button mouse!]]>Jul 26th 2007 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
Also, you shouldn't have to buy a new one after paying that price for a computer. But I guess Nickle-n-Diming people is what Apple does best.]]>Jul 26th 2007 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
1 finger drag = move mouse
1 finger tap = left click
1 finger tap drag = left click and drag
2 finger drag = scroll in 360 directions
2 finger tap = right click

I don't even use the button, I wish it weren't even there. I prefer stealth.]]>Jul 26th 2007 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
The single button and wide trackpad on my MacBook with its two-finger clicking and scrolling > the four buttons, scroll-zone edge, and pencil-eraser finger pointer on my HP laptop. Period.

I hope Apple sticks to its guns with the single-button trackpad.

Multiple buttons on mice, on the other hand, are much appreciated.]]>Jul 26th 2007 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
it's going to tap into Steve Jobs' moxie for power.

and use the collective latent storage of all of us lozers who froth over things that are largely insignificant as RAM and HDD space.

and have freakin lazers built into it so you can vapourize anyone who disagrees with you. PEWPEWPEW, bitchez!!

but seriously, WTF does it matter, in 2 years the shit they release this year is going to seem obsolete, and those ranting and raving over it are too. ]]>Jul 26th 2007 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
I think not.]]>Jul 26th 2007 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/
I was one of the bloggers sent a free Fararri Acer computer with Vista from Microsoft and while the OS is dizzying, the computer is so nice, it really is a pleasure, moreso than my MacBook Pro (the only option). If I had OSX on an Acer, it would be super. But right now, its needs a different operating system on it.

I cant help but think, on a global level, Apple's OS would become the OS of choice because its better. :D]]>Jul 26th 2007 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/]]>Jul 26th 2007 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/26/apple-cfo-hints-at-possibly-big-product-transitions-before-sep/Jul 26th 2007 1:07PM