“If you’re the betting type, here are some more good odds: the tablet will be called an iSlate, have much more capability than simply an e-reader, boast a 10-inch touchscreen and sell for less than $1,000,” Kaneshige reports. “That’s all well and good-but at least one technologist isn’t convinced.”
Kaneshige reports, “Not about a 10-inch touchscreen, anyway.”
“Aaron Vronko, CEO of Rapid Repair, an iPod and iPhone repair shop, took a hard look at hardware options for a tablet that would impact system performance, battery design and power capacity,” Kaneshige reports. “His key conclusion: An Apple tablet won’t debut with a 10-inch touchscreen, which has been widely predicted.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Carl H.” for the heads up.]
I am not convinced on 10″. If this thing is going to be both usable and portable, that seems too big to be overly portable.
My guess (and I admit I am guessing) is that it will be smaller to make it easier for watching movies.
I guess if I were on Price Is Right, this would qualify as good analysis.
“Expect Apple to help meet design goals by sticking with a non user-replaceable battery that’s only about half the size of an average netbook power pack.”
Yes: “sticking with” it to meet design goals…and get 2 – 3x more battery life. That right there should tell you how much this was thought through.
Also: the 17″ MBP gets an hour more battery because…
**drum roll**
…they get more battery in a bigger chassis.
I’ve been makin’ do all my life with 4.5″.
If you can’t reach the bottom, you just bang the hell out of the sides.
A 7×4 display would be perfect size, easy to hold combined with easy zoom, builtin camera, and other itouch capabilities. The battery I hope will be easy to swap out.
If the Apple table becomes a reality and if it is intended to be used (at least partially) for reading newspapers and the like then anything less than 10″ would be completely inadequate.
iSlate would be the ugliest name Apple had ever chosen. Just sayin.
Apple has no problem delivering a 17-inch laptop computer with a 6-hour battery, so I can’t see how a smaller device would be limited by battery life. People are used to plugging their laptops into the wall, so the larger the tablet, the less people will mind plugging it into the wall from time to time. Unlike a phone, a tablet won’t be used while walking or driving, because to use it, you have to look at it. Battery life won’t be as important.
I’m willing to bet that a large percentage of Apple’s customers live in areas that are wired up for electricity.
I think an 8″ screen would be ideal.
How about MDN doing a poll on the best size for a tablet screen?