So, let start from the beginning, as best I know it, Apple founders Wozniak and Jobs went to school, blah, blah, blah, they started making computers and software for them. BAM! They are in business. Several years go buy where Apple is largely unnoticed, then they make the iPod in 2001. The iPod gets Apple noticed and they ride the wave well releasing new versions and models of the iPod whenever sales start to slump of the previous model. But their computing division continues to go unnoticed, until Intel gets involved; now everyone wants one, but some still avoid them due to price or for what some would call a weird OS.
Well, that brings us to present day, where the OS isn’t so weird, Apple’s more out in the public, and everyone takes notice when they do something. The iPod in its many different designs is selling more than ever. And then a few months ago Apple releases the iPhone, a highly unique melding of all the latest mobile devices to make what many consider to be the best mobile phone out there, and if you were to spend any time with one, you’d be hard pressed to disagree. Sure there are things that could be improved, but even in its current state its better than just about anything out there.
But, as I mentioned, the iPhone was the first time Apple had done anything with any sort of touch sensitive screen since the Newton, an old PDA from back in the black and green only screens of yore. Then Apple goes and sticks the multi-touch screen and the cool mobile OS in an iPod, which means they don’t mind spreading the multi-touch love around. So I and others have been waiting for a long time, ever since Apple snatched up the guys from FingerWorks and ever since Axiotron and Other World Computing started selling the ModBook, a custom made Mac iTablet of sorts, well, we’ve been waiting on Apple to make a Mac iTablet.
I envision two different Mac iTablets, a small and light version made from the MacBook and larger model that’s based off of the MacBook Pro and is more of a laptop that just so happens to have a touchscreen and swivel hinge. I’d be happy with just the MacBook based one, thin, light, long battery life, and a lot of the same technology and gestures as the iPod Touch and iPhone. Apple is rumored to be working on an ultra-portable notebook right now, and that could be the platform they choose to launch the Mac iTablet from, which would be good too since its rumored to be smaller than a MacBook, and 50% thinner and 50% lighter, and likely with a longer battery life, so that would be even more perfect for use as a itablet.
A slate style itablet, as in no keyboard, except on screen, would be amazing if it were made from the rumored laptop as it would likely have a brushed aluminum backing, the same glass covering as the iPhone with a few buttons, SSD storage, LED backlighting, and no optical drive, all driving the weight down, the heat down, and the battery life way up. A Mac iTablet like that would be one done in true Apple style, perfect from the start.
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