[sziklassy]

Originally Posted by boe_dye

That would be so cool! Much more inovative then the macbook air, and if done properly, just as functional. Look, scifi shows like star trek always had those cool tablet touch pads for just about everything. When 2000 hit, my first thought was 'where is all the cool stuff?'.

Now 8 years later we are finally seeing the fruition of that mentality. Think how cool that would be to read actual newspapers or books on one of those thing? How about menus for resturaunt (when it becomes uber cheap of course).

Except they already have this called digital ink, and it is fairly old technology, it just never caught on.

As to this device? If it's not a true tablet Mac then it is fail in my book. An oversized touch just sounds stupid.

[boe_dye]

oh absolutely, if it is just an oversized iPod then who cares? That would be really retarded to go to all that effort for an mp3 player.

And of course this isn't the first touch tablet type of deal, there is also that archaic monochrome overpriced hunk of crap from amazon.com the Kindle or whatever it is...

Also if anyone takes notice, windows XP has always supported tablet PC functions and how long ago did XP come out, and how many tablet PC's do we see running around?

And if we really want to dig up ancient history, how about the apple Newton? That thing was Waaaay before Palm if im not mistaken.

Remember, apple has always been doing things "ahead of their time", but in this case if they do it right, then they wouldn't be ahead of their time, they would define the current time.

It will only be cool as a fully functional computer. Not stripped down, not limited, but as an actual computer.

[Jager673]

Theirs a patent I've seen a while ago saying Apple was creating an iPhone that has a small solar panel in the screen which charges the battery.. Could that be why the screen is bigger?? Also using an SSD instead of an HD that has spinning parts.

[pouncer11]

I personally have always looked at my iPod as being sleek, small and minimal. I does cool things, yes, but I bought it to play music, and sure enough, that's what it does best. I'm not saying this device isn't coming, but whatever it is, it's not an iPod of any sort. We have seen rumors of a tablet coming and I believe this is it. Probably not with the iPhone/Touch OS though. I don't see a full fledged OS either. My reasoning for this is because a full OS would need a stylus on a 9in screen, and that would be too clumsy for any modern Apple product. I would imagine there will be an SSD storage drive and no optical drive as usual. Anyway, this is no iPod coming folks.

[boxxa]

Kind of defeats the purpose of carrying around a portable media player IMO.

At the potential price tag this thing will be and side of it, I would rather buy a smaller laptop.

[redcard]

Originally Posted by smirkis

who needs a 9" mini mac. iphone/real mac... no need for a item in the middle...

True. People only need a 3 inch screen, or a 15 inch one.

[Eurisko]

Originally Posted by Proserpine

Apple could develop a metal hollow tube, and they'd still manage to sell it. :P

I think you're referring to the iBrator

[boe_dye]

@eurisko

iBrator, thats funny :-)

@pouncer11:

Why would you need a stylus? The screen would be bigger so typing would b easier. To move windows all you would need to do is push and hold for two seconds.

And the iphone functions perfectly well without one anyways. So why would i need one on a larger screen??

Besides steve jobs hates the stylus.

[Sullivan0930]

i dont need to have 2 9inchers in these pants, one is enough. make it smaller apple.

[buckeye826]

Originally Posted by Poseidon79

Technically you're the second post b/c you weren't awesome enough to dig up this info in the first place and make it the FIRST post!

Dude I rarely post but I read a lot and your a **** get off your horse and either do your JOB or STFUP. I'd love to know what your like in real life but guessing since you get off bashing others on here your just a punk.

[dale1v]

you're*
3 months to reply to a post?
:S

[Poseidon79]

/me goes to cry in the corner.

[JakeA712]

That screen would be great for movies in HD, but i'd only really consider buying one if they put in a much more powerful processor. Of course, maybe not so big that it needs a fan to cool it, but it'd still be good to have an iPod that does stuff when you tell it to. Instead of 3 seconds after.

[Melech518]

too bad it hasnt come true yet

[waldoctg]

I love the iTouch