“One of our close Apple connects who haven’t steered us wrong dropped a little bit of information on us,” The Boy Genius reports.
• The tablet’s multi-touch gestures are “out of control.”
• It’s powered by an incredibly fast ARM CPU
• It runs on the iPhone kernel.
• The tablet is basically an “iPhone on steroids.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: In July 2008, we reported a rumor that Apple’s secret product is ‘MacBook touch’. Said our source — the same one who tipped us to wireless iTunes Store sales direct to iPod and 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.
Our source has subsequently told us that “the SuperDrive will not be part of the finished devices, ‘It was just in some of the prototypes for various reason(s).'”
We view both “out of control” and “some sick shit” as positive descriptions.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacVicta” for the heads up.]
can’t wait to be let down when all they announce is iLife2010 and iwork 2010
I will pay $800 for some sick shit.
Ha… I have been thinking the same think. Steve will punk us.
Steroids are so 1990’s. It’s HGH now! Doesn’t that sound cooler?? “The tablet is basically an ‘iPhone on HGH'”.
iPhone on caffeine, anyone? It’s legal.
A while back Rip Ragged had a great thought–“Here’s what would be funnier than hell: Apple announces on 1/27 that after careful study, they’ve decided tablets are a load of crap and not a market they’re interested in pursuing. This, after every other company on the planet, including John Deere, Kimberly-Clark, and Pepsi-Cola, have rushed to market some kind of touchscreen tablet device, hoping to upstage Apple. http://rip-ragged.com/dross/“
In a couple of weeks we will know more — maybe.
They will announce the iRack! (Saturday Night live skit)
I want sick shit !
Perhaps will start a Mac app store to accompany this. Seeing that distribution has always been a problem for Mac developers, this could be a boon to the platform.
I’ll go for the Mark McGuire edition.
Who wants an iPhone on steroids? The iPhone is fine as it is, just needs a few software enhancements like the ability to run more than one third party app at the same time and a higher resolution screen.
The tablet is beginning to sound like something Steve Jobs wouldn’t want at Apple: a product with no real purpose.
@Rob
It would be hilarious. Somehow talk Steve Jobs into walking around in public with some sort of outlandish device for a day, and then sit back and watch the blogoshpere light up like a Christmas tree.
Good times!
The MDN “source” from July 2008 said it will run “Full OS X” and “run Mac apps” – I suspect this will be proved wrong when the tablet debuts with the iPhone on steroids OS and apps.
The device also has “off the hook” WiFi speed and applications that are “diggity dank”.
——RM
@anthony007
McGuire and Marion Jones would be super spokespeople!
The 27th can’t get here fast enough.
How long is it before an alleged event that Apple confirm and advertise it? – It’s not too long to the 27th and there’s still no confirmation. For instance how long before the iPhone was originally announced did Apple confirm that there would be an event?
I had a sick shit which came out very slick. No one wanted to interface with it though. Ahead of my time I guess.
NO IPHONE OS, THANK YOU.
It’s 2007 all over again…
” For instance how long before the iPhone was originally announced did Apple confirm that there would be an event?”
iPhone was shown at MacWorld, which was held annually, so there was going to be an event, iPhone or not.
But what about Apple’s 1st nano surprise event? Wasn’t it like 5 days before the show?
Pure Speculation on “sick shit”
1. 1.6 Ghz 64-bit Multi-core CPU (and) Multi-core GPU
2. Snow Leopard + Tablet specific enablers
3. Camera for HD iChat video conferencing or scanned biz cards
4. 4 GB Memory standard
5. 64 GB flash drive
6. SDXC slot (64 GB – 2 TB) scalable
7. Ports
a. 10/100/1000 Ethernet and/or Light Peak (10 Gb/s)
b. Display Port
c. USB2 or USB3 (two ports)
d. 3.5 inch Stereo Audio input/output
8. Full 802.11n spec
9. Bluetooth 2.1 or 3.0 with full profile support
10. Optional user interchangeable WWAN radio module
a. multi-band WCDMA/HSUPA+ for international use
b. CDMA
c. Future LTE
11. Multi-boot via bootcamp, Virtualbox, Vmware, Parallels, etc.
12. 1080p capable screen so beautiful, you cannot resist it.
13. Compatible with existing iPhone 3.x or later applications
14. Flush mounted kick stand on back
15. Nokia proof
“but sold at ‘low’ price that will reduce margins.”
Yep. Make it inexpensive enough to be an add on item for a computer purchase. Make it inexpensive enough to be an impulse item. Make it inexpensive enough so that a family might have more than one.
It is not meant to replace your notebook or desktop.
@iNeuron – item d. should read 3.5mm not inches
This non-existent Apple product sounds titillates my senses.
Is that my credit card somersaulting out of my wallet with a lens flare effect?
Sign me up!
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so iNeuron, i like a lot about that list, but bootcamp? you serious? no way.