Get ready for Newton 2.0 MacBook touch?!
So says our source — the same one who tipped us to wireless iTunes Store sales direct to iPod, iPhone a week before Apple debuted it — in staccato fashion:
Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion’s haptic tech. Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at “low” price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick shit. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.
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We are working to develop new products that contain technologies that our competition will not be able to match. I cannot discuss these new products, but we are very confident in our product pipeline. – Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer, during Apple’s Q308 Financial Results Conference Call, July 21, 2008
I hope that it is. Would be very kool…
wow. can it fry?
I object to the phrase, “This is some sick shit.” He could have said, “This is some ill poopy.”
I need these for my office.
Tissue please.
I can’t afford one right now, but wow if it is true.
How can iphone apps fit visually on a MacBook Touch? You would think the UI and layout would need to be redone.
How about a iGirl Touch?
No bikini whales need apply.
Thank you, I’ll be here all week…
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@ cheese – will it blend?
Peace.
Keep it in laptop form, but smaller, please.
::boner::
Hope I have enough money after the stock crash to buy it.
Is this is it, then I’ll be right in line when they get the shipments in.
“This is some sick shit. “
This just gave away that whoever wrote this rumor is 15 yrs old.
Who will be the one presenting it to us after we’re finally told that Steve Jobs is bed-ridden and the stock drops 90%?
I can only imagine it’s that Scott Forstall guy. He may be a little dry but he’s young and vibrant. He’s got potential.
It would have to be in a different form factor. The laptop form would give people “gorrila arm” I think it’s called, much like Microsoft’s demo of Windows 7. Some sort of giant iPhone that can be propped up on one end, that allows a mouse to be connected as well (since it will run Mac applications). There is no way someone could run Illustrator and such without a mouse.
Nope. Not it.
A MacBook Touch is not a “KEY product transition,” as Opperheimer stated. It would be a completely new product.
Besides, Oppenheimer clearly said that it would affect profit margins in the CURRENT quarter ending September.
Sorry, this isn’t it.
What is this replacing though?
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This is true. I know someone who knows someone who used to work there and this rumor has been going around for at least 2 years. It will also be spun as a solution for K12 that actually works.
A) I hope he’s spot on with the features and low price.
B) I hope it’s lighter than a standard Macbook, and uses Air components (smaller boards, lighter batteries, SSD’s)
C) I hope it has a user-replaceable battery with that touch screen chewing up battery life. It ain’t no iPod.
If Apple wants to convert more people from PCs to Macs, the way to do it would be to make a new laptop that acts like and looks like a larger iPhone. Many enthusiastic iPhone users that are on the PC side will move to it.
Moreover, this is where the real money is to be made for Apple IMHO.
This is why Snow Leopard is oddly announced with apparently no new features. Apple has all their OS X software engineers working a major new feature that they cannot announce — full Mac OS X touch gesture capabilities throughout the system — something they can’t announce because it would let the cat out of the bag and because Apple doesn’t discuss future products.
Um MikeK–a transition is known as moving people from one product to another, right?
The MacBook is to become more book-like.
What the F does this have to do with the presidential election!?!?!
I thought this was a political site!!!
Nevermind….
He serves at the Cupertino Burger King of course.
I go with the idea of the Mac iSlate, 8 or 10″, running the full caboodle…
@John Gee
No. A transition is technologies in one product changing into something else.. Example: HDD becoming SSD, or fluorescent LED displays becoming OLED displays.
A MacBook touch would not replace a MacBook, it would be a new product.
This rumour is basically true. I told y’all months ago that this product was in the works. (Not that it’s a big stretch to speculate such a thing given Apple’s obvious direction during the past couple years). But take my word for it. It’s actually happening. Check my track record; haven’t been wrong yet.