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
Mac Mini Tower.
YES!!
Not an iMac, not a mini, something to bridge that huge gulf in the product line that Apple has let go for so long.
Apple: Are you listening?!?!?!?!?
My company would be early adopters. The last thing IT guys need is to carry putty knives around with them to support hundreds of Mac minis. And expecting iMacs to be put in serious business situations is plain not going to happen.
It’s either going to be air-like multi-touch ultra-portable-like or it is going to be a SSD-CUBE…yes, CUBE again, that has tremendous performance multi-expansion capabilities…in other words, the new Mac Pro in mini format. Room for three SSD’s, tons of RAM, small footprint. 4 sided expandability. The new CUBE! Do you really think Jobs gave up on such a cool product? The Mac Pro for consumers…by the way, the Mac Pro is HUGE and expensive and only necessary for the high-end dogs. Sound far-fetched? Am I dreaming? Maybe…maybe not.
First off Steve Job is not taking his “Boost” as he should thus he looks a little wasted… solution he needs to take his “Boost” yes it taste like shit but it good for you!
More importantly, if this new device looks and acts like a tablet and god, i.e. Steve Jobs, only knows how a Apple tablet is going to look and act… I want one and am willing to spend my social security check to get one!
You can bit you last buck that a iTablet will sell and sell well…
Just wait till the first time you have to use the gesture for Force Quit (Hand with middle finger extended).
And it will look just like a book you flip through the pages to get to different applications
Slobber, drool…
Comment from: Petey
No way, No how.
“No product, however cool, is going to sell over a million units in the first month.”
iPhone 3g sold 1 million units its first day. Technically, even though it shares a common name, it is a “new” product. its very possible to sell 1 million products in a month. It all depends on the price. And awesome-ness.
There is no need to swear, this is a family forum! There’s kids on these boards! You know how many little six year olds hang out here to find out about Apple’s latest SDK update, Oppenheimer’s latest comments about Apple’s financial outlook, and whatever Steve Ballmer said today.
“This is some sick sh|t. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too.”
This is some sick bullsh|t. Running iPhone apps and Mac apps? On what processor it would be? And what screen resolution?
Macintosh writes: “There is no way someone could run Illustrator and such without a mouse.”
Most of the graphics guys at the company where I work use wacom tablets and absolutely despise the mouse.
If you could use the Macbook Touch with a wacom-like stylus, you could certainly use Illustrator and other things like that.
Not that you would want to do serious graphics work on a 13″ screen anyway, though…
Why do you want a dell-like minitower? Do you have a bunch of PCI cards from the ’90s lying around you’re just itching to use?
I went to a focus group about 2 months ago and we got to play with these “concepts” that looks a LOT like a 5×7 book. You could open it up and it was a tochscreen display on both sides. Pretty freaking cool. Since it was a “prototype” didn’t get a chance to play too much with it HOWEVER… I noticed some of the icons on the static pictures looked a lot like Mac icons. Some of the “playlists” were also the smart playlist and regular playlists.. and other mac-like icons. I suspect that might be the one. Was also gonna have wifi connectivity, and a few other goodies. Sorta like a cross between the iPhone and a MacBook.
“iPhone 3g sold 1 million units its first day. Technically, even though it shares a common name, it is a “new” product.
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Yes, iPhone 3g sold 1 million units in it’s first 3 days. BUT and this is a big BUT, that is after 18 months of hype and product awareness for the iPhone..
iPhone was introduced 6 months before it began shipping. And a year after it’s inital release the second generation iPhone 3g sold a million units in three days.. But Oppenheimer is talking about sales in this CURRENT quarter for a product that hasn’t even been introduced yet..
No way, they could sell a million of a brand new product. It HAS to be an existing product.
…that while Oppenheimer talked about a “key product transition”, Steve Jobs in the press release that accompanied the financial results talked of “many new products in the coming months.”
It’s entirely possible there will be a “key transition” to OS X across the entire iPod line AS WELL AS some new products introduced like a touch-screen Macbook. Apple can walk and chew gum at the same time, guys.
“Sorta like a cross between the iPhone and a MacBook.”
Sounds plausible.
Also:
iPod touch
Days Since Update: 168 (Avg = 153)
I don’t see how iPods make a “key” transition. They could all go multi-touch, but the costs would likely be too high for shuffles and nanos.
iPhone was just updated, so no “key” transition there.
That leaves Macs. Since Macs are now on Intel processors, that can’t be the transition (I seriously doubt PA Semi has developed new chips to run desktop/laptop Macs, and I doubt Apple wants to go there anyway after the PPC experience).
We already know that Snow Leopard will be an optimization of Leopard. So nothing “key” about OS X.
I think we’re looking at the first shift away from traditional keyboards to virtual touch keyboards across the Mac lineup. This may or may not include a tablet Mac. However, having a “touch panel” which can display different functions depending upon which app you’re using, and then have multi-touch input, could be a game-changer for Apple. This could involve screens, but it’s not too practical to have your screen 6 inches from your face at work.
Now let’s see Apple’s competitors combat the touch panel when Apple has multi-touch patented up the wazoo. Apple is instantly five years ahead of anyone else.
Gut feeling – the literal, Apple TV. The box is just a hobby. The real deal is a LCD TV, 40 inchish with the Atv hardware built in.
iPod Touch and iPhone as remote control. iTunes in your TV. More electronics for the expanding Apple Store chain.
LED displays in the Macbooks a distant second.
speculate new product may be a tablet/mini that runs updated AppleTV.
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This could be one hot product.
Something that you might have a couple of, used to access media, documents, email, from the other computers you have or the web.
I’d love to have a tablet that I could read ebooks, listen to music, watch a video or just surf the web with. I don’t need it to type and if I do then I have a Mac wireless keyboard for that.
Think DynaBook folks.
“I don’t see how iPods make a “key” transition. “
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What don’t you see?
The entire iPod with the exception of the shuffle going “touch” is certainly a “key” transition.
iPod classic give way to the iPod touch with larger SSD.
iPod nano transitions into “iPod nano touch.”
This way the entire iPod lineup will run OSX and have access to the “app store,” and will further cement Apple domination in the mobile platform of the future.
iPod nano is Apple’s best selling mobile device. It makes perfect sense to “transition” this product to it’s new mobile platform that they started with the iPhone.
The competition simply couldn’t compete with a move like this as Apple has applied for over 200 patents for it’s touch technology.
Can we say Google-Apple CLOUD
They said the product transition will drive down margins. That would seem to me to indicate that they are going to replace an existing high margin product with a low margin product – such as doing away with the iPod Classic and keeping only the iPod Touch, dropping the MacBook and keeping only the MacBook Air with a lower price, or going solely to solid state drives for all laptops. However, since they mentioned the purpose was to shore up market share, I’d say it’s more to do with the iPod line.
Will it play porn?
I love all this fallout from Oppenheimer’s iBomb.
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