“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.]
Gotta love “out of control” touch gestures … Can’t wait to see people trying to fly these things.
@funkysoul
Thank you for the correction.
@shen
Probably not, yet time and creative minds may surprise us.
It sure will be nice when there’s an announcement from Apple, so as to end all the speculation.
Am I the only one who thinks LeBron James could be using HGH or a designer steroids not yet detectable by drug tests. He’s just not real
@Think
iRack was MadTV not SNL, however great skit.
Jobs won’t be doing this for too long. This may be the perfect and final time he pulls his famous “and one more thing…” an hour into the show after they announce new iLife, iWorks, MBP, and next iPhone.
@WetFX
Ah, you’re right. After a while they all tend to blur together
This would make a sick as shit control center for my Mac based home theatre/multimedia system….Harmony remote on PEDs (performance enhancing drugs). Now, if I only had more disposable income.