Report: Apple Working on Tablet-Laptop Combo

[braneman]

I wonder if it will have multitasking this time, or even... a clock? mouse support? you never really know what they'll cut out next... even still people will STILL buy it, no matter how much it costs and how many obvious flaws it has.

 

[Guest]

wow what an inovation, HTC ATHENA anyone?

 

[guanyu210379]

OH no it is new........
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Beeepppp....WRONG!
This is just like the ordinary tablet PC....nothin' new...see the Lenovo's tablet pc series for example.

 

[Clintonio]

[citation][nom]Glorian[/nom]Gah, Jobs will do anything to not make a "netbook' but all he seems to be ending up with is a freakin' NETBOOK![/citation]
Jobs is probably thinking that since he didn't design netbooks, they must be worthless.

 

[dokiardo]

While it is new, a lot of people have never seen a tablet yet. In all honesty, neither have I outside of my career. So this will be REVOLUTIONARY. The Apple fans will say that this tablet is new, fresh and magical. When we all know it is just flub, that is overpriced flub

 

[infodan]

Acer Travelmate c200?

 

[hardcore_gamer]

cool..the only downside is that its from Apple

 

[Griffolion]

Three words to Apple - Already. Been. Done

 

[twu]

What? that looks like the old WinXP touch screen laptops. Oh, they patent old tech. and make others to pay for it, blood s*cker.

 

[zak_mckraken]

So it's a iPad with a slide-out keyboard? The iPad is already a big iPod Touch, si I guess tgis is a big iPod Touch with a big slide-out keyboard. Pure genious.

 

[Ragnar-Kon]

[citation][nom]HavoCnMe[/nom]The new iSlab. Order today for the Flintstone Edition.[/citation]
Dude I'd be all over the Flintstone edition once it comes out. LOVE that show.

 

[hakesterman]

The new iSlab. Order today for the Flintstone Edition.

Dude I'd be all over the Flintstone edition once it comes out. LOVE that show.

I wonder if it comes signed by Fred and Barney???????

 

[Guest]

My December 1992 issue of PC World had pretty much the exact same thing with the exact same mechanism. It was called the Grid Convertible.

 

[mdillenbeck]

Interesting considering the couple of times I read Steve Jobs state that he would never get into the tablet PC market as it wasn't really economically viable.

As to an iPad form-factor macbook, its called a ModBook - a third party company that is allowed to modify their notebooks into slates because Apple was unwilling to enter that market.

Again, the same prediction with the iPad applies if they do go ahead with the product. It will be laughed at and bashed up until released, and then the Apple PR machine will go in full gear as people snatch up the "revolutionary" device. Places like Tom's, desperate to post anything Apple to draw clicks (and thus Ad revenue), will snap up all the Apple PR they can to post about it (like the iPad) thus further feeding the frenzy.

 

[awood28211]

Yes, you too can take your iPhone anywhere...and when your screen isn't big enough to watch a movie, pull out your iPad...and just in case you need to actually be productive and run Microsoft Office and use a real keyboard...whip out your AppleTop...

As a feature the AppleTop comes without vowel keys...to which you'll be told, you're typing wrong.