 |
 |
How could Apple reinvent the tablet?
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: eating kernel
Status:
Offline
|
|
After looking at the gizmodo contest and then the digg comments I got to thinking why Apple should put their time into designing a Mac tablet. My idea is the Mac tablet would be a nice small desktop too (if going by the gizmodo contest winner's idea). Go to school or work with your Mac tablet, come home and stick it on its stand and use Apples BT KB and mouse (or whatever KB/M that you prefer).
Mac tablet specs (ones that I want):
3 USB, 1 FW 400
Wireless N/BT
512 MB or 1 GB of RAM
100 GB HD or 32/64 GB SSD
Multi-touch
iSight and IR
Leopard
What do you guys think?
|
|
Signature depreciated.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
Exactly
iPhone but bigger and some ports.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: England | San Francisco
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
we don't have time to stop for gas
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Your Anus
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
My sig is 1 pixel too big.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2007
Status:
Offline
|
|
I use a Mac at work, with a graphics tablet, and have a Tablet PC at home (I'm a graphic designer). I prob would have considered a Mac tablet had one been available, however having tried Ink in OS X with my graphics tablet, I'd have to say that it's just not good enough at recognising handwriting at the moment. There is a custom made Mac tablet which you can buy though.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: T •
Status:
Offline
|
|
I still don't see the appeal of one if it can't fit in my pocket I might as well carry a laptop.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2007
Status:
Offline
|
|
They're handy if you're a designer or Illustrator because (obviously) you can just draw straight onto the screen. It's more like a laptop than a pocket gadget.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: T •
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by mrming 
They're handy if you're a designer or Illustrator because (obviously) you can just draw straight onto the screen. It's more like a laptop than a pocket gadget.
Yippie, stylus' and portables are fun. I love drawing straight lines when standing.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by mrming
They're handy if you're a designer or Illustrator because (obviously) you can just draw straight onto the screen. It's more like a laptop than a pocket gadget.
So, basically you want a Wacom pen tablet-like device then.
That's certainly not something that most people are really interested in. Sure, it suits a niche market very well, but... it's niche.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: detroit,mi,usa
Status:
Offline
|
|
Keyboards work pretty ****ing well.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Across from the wallpaper store.
Status:
Offline
|
|
I view tablets kinda like voice control. It's cool in theory but those who actually find them MORE useful and/or efficient are in the minority.
This is exactly the perfect product for Apple to reinvent. Just photocopying an iPhone on a zoom setting isn't enough. They need to make multi-touch work in a way that makes you think; "how the hell did we get along with the way we did things before?".
|
|
Being in debt and celebrating a lower deficit is like being on a diet and celebrating the fact you gained two pounds this week instead of five.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: T •
Status:
Offline
|
|
Seriously I think the iPhone is the perfect tablet. I don't want to draw or handwrite on a portable. It was done in the 90's and it didn't work, just look at the Newton (iPhone 1.0) and PDAs (cellphones 1.0)
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: In yer threads
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
Seriously I think the iPhone is the perfect tablet.
For business people on the go. Not for artists.
I don't want to draw or handwrite on a portable. It was done in the 90's and it didn't work, just look at the Newton (iPhone 1.0) and PDAs (cellphones 1.0)
Actually the Newton for it's time had a neat drawing program deal. But that was over a decade ago SWF. Technology has changed for the better.
For example, drawing tablets in the 90s suck compared to the ones made today as far as precision goes. The mouse/keyboard combo is just cumbersome to true designers, and has needed a different direction for decades now. The drawing tablet was a plus.. but it needs to go further. And it will.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: In yer threads
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
Nice....
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2007
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -
WOW 
that is sharp. Me want. 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Status:
Offline
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Calgary
Status:
Offline
|
|
Apple doesn't reinvent. They take existing ideas and make them better. The tablet idea is so bad that making it better will still only be mediocre.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jan 2003
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
Mac tablet specs (ones that I want):
3 USB, 1 FW 400
Wireless N/BT
512 MB or 1 GB of RAM
100 GB HD or 32/64 GB SSD
Multi-touch
iSight and IR
Leopard
What do you guys think?
I think you need more RAM in the default configuration. 
|
|
Midshipman 3/C, USNR
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Across from the wallpaper store.
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
Mac tablet specs (ones that I want):
3 USB, 1 FW 400
Wireless N/BT
512 MB or 1 GB of RAM
100 GB HD or 32/64 GB SSD
Multi-touch
iSight and IR
Leopard
What do you guys think?
iSight in a tablet is pretty useless.
You add up all that and all you have is an Apple branded polished turd.
What IS so great about a tablet? That you can still use it with one hand while standing? You have to sacrifice a lot of usability to gain that advantage.
I do think that multi-touch could be useful in a PC, just not in a tablet configuration.
|
|
Being in debt and celebrating a lower deficit is like being on a diet and celebrating the fact you gained two pounds this week instead of five.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: In yer threads
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Wiskedjak
The tablet idea is so bad that making it better will still only be mediocre.
For consumer ever day use I agree. For specialized usage I don't.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO
After looking at the gizmodo contest and then the digg comments I got to thinking why Apple should put their time into designing a Mac tablet. My idea is the Mac tablet would be a nice small desktop too (if going by the gizmodo contest winner's idea). Go to school or work with your Mac tablet, come home and stick it on its stand and use Apples BT KB and mouse (or whatever KB/M that you prefer).
Mac tablet specs (ones that I want):
3 USB, 1 FW 400
Wireless N/BT
512 MB or 1 GB of RAM
100 GB HD or 32/64 GB SSD
Multi-touch
iSight and IR
Leopard
What do you guys think?
I think they would ship it with Jaguar  On the serious side, it would have to be a bit better than that. I think 2 Gb of RAM standard and 120 Gb HD standard. On a tablet you have to be able to have multiple apps open at the same time and they have to be able to open very quickly. Leopard and 512 Mb of RAM don't let that happen. What would IR be for except the Apple Remote?
BTW, if Apple made a MacBook touch that looked like that I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Assuming my heart is still beating when Apple finally comes out with a tablet.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Calgary
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Kevin
For consumer ever day use I agree. For specialized usage I don't.
True. I don't, however, see Apple developing for such specialized usage.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Colorado
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Wiskedjak
True. I don't, however, see Apple developing for such specialized usage.
I would agree with that. Apple has given up small markets after the likes of the Newton and original Apple TV (err, Mac TV).
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Tampa, Florida
Status:
Offline
|
|
Don't wait for Apple: Modbook
Internal GPS available.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: eating kernel
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by The Godfather
Don't wait for Apple: Modbook
Internal GPS available.
Not shipping yet.
|
|
Signature depreciated.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top