Comments on: New tablet rumors and slow news day conspire to cause us to revisit Doug’s Mac nano rumor http://macenstein.com/default/2008/05/new-tablet-rumors-and-slow-news-day-conspire-to-cause-us-to-revisit-dougs-mac-nano-rumor/ Mac news and rumors dug up on the web and sewn into and unholy monster Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:47:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Elos http://macenstein.com/default/2008/05/new-tablet-rumors-and-slow-news-day-conspire-to-cause-us-to-revisit-dougs-mac-nano-rumor/comment-page-1/#comment-161044 Elos Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:46:33 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/?p=1378#comment-161044 oooh, darell..... oooh, darell…..

]]> By: rabid Doug http://macenstein.com/default/2008/05/new-tablet-rumors-and-slow-news-day-conspire-to-cause-us-to-revisit-dougs-mac-nano-rumor/comment-page-1/#comment-153817 rabid Doug Mon, 26 May 2008 13:13:56 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/?p=1378#comment-153817 Jason O'Grady at macworld.com says his little birdie tells him the tablet will 12"-13", and have a SuperDrive and GPS. GPS maybe. But I will tell why my info say this approach was aborted - too large, too heavy, too short battery life. A model with a SuperDrive was developed, the idea being when "docked" it would become the desktop SuperDrive. But you were still left with a space-consuming and power-hungry SuperDrive when you un-docked the tablet. Jason is also describing a tablet model that does NOT dock to convert into a desktop Mac. This has long been what Steve Jobs considers the deal-breaker for tablets - you are still left with probably needing and using a desktop PC, and transferring files, applications, settings, and user accounts was a seemingly insurmountable problem. So, the dockable tablet was seen as the solution to that. Other PC companies have tried, and failed, to achieve this design solution. Apple, with typical patience and obsessiveness, has created an elegant marriage of hardware and software that will finally crack the tablet barrier. Jason O’Grady at macworld.com says his little birdie tells him the tablet will 12″-13″, and have a SuperDrive and GPS. GPS maybe. But I will tell why my info say this approach was aborted – too large, too heavy, too short battery life. A model with a SuperDrive was developed, the idea being when “docked” it would become the desktop SuperDrive. But you were still left with a space-consuming and power-hungry SuperDrive when you un-docked the tablet. Jason is also describing a tablet model that does NOT dock to convert into a desktop Mac. This has long been what Steve Jobs considers the deal-breaker for tablets – you are still left with probably needing and using a desktop PC, and transferring files, applications, settings, and user accounts was a seemingly insurmountable problem. So, the dockable tablet was seen as the solution to that. Other PC companies have tried, and failed, to achieve this design solution. Apple, with typical patience and obsessiveness, has created an elegant marriage of hardware and software that will finally crack the tablet barrier.

]]> By: Anthony http://macenstein.com/default/2008/05/new-tablet-rumors-and-slow-news-day-conspire-to-cause-us-to-revisit-dougs-mac-nano-rumor/comment-page-1/#comment-153815 Anthony Mon, 26 May 2008 06:11:08 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/?p=1378#comment-153815 So, is this the Duo rebirth? So, is this the Duo rebirth?

]]> By: AG Pennypacker http://macenstein.com/default/2008/05/new-tablet-rumors-and-slow-news-day-conspire-to-cause-us-to-revisit-dougs-mac-nano-rumor/comment-page-1/#comment-153798 AG Pennypacker Sun, 25 May 2008 05:56:07 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/?p=1378#comment-153798 Oh Doug... Oh Doug…

]]> By: darrell http://macenstein.com/default/2008/05/new-tablet-rumors-and-slow-news-day-conspire-to-cause-us-to-revisit-dougs-mac-nano-rumor/comment-page-1/#comment-153797 darrell Sun, 25 May 2008 05:30:14 +0000 http://macenstein.com/default/?p=1378#comment-153797 i still don't know why the blogosphere and analysts continue to resurface rumors of the iTablet. seems like after the appleTV, the iPhone and MacBook Air were announced, the rumormill speculates that apple is going to bring out 'the next big thing' to show how much great gadgets they are conjuring up. its as if noone realizes that apple only takes established products that don't sell well because of poor UI design and makes them useable while having great industrial design on the front end. i still don’t know why the blogosphere and analysts continue to resurface rumors of the iTablet. seems like after the appleTV, the iPhone and MacBook Air were announced, the rumormill speculates that apple is going to bring out ‘the next big thing’ to show how much great gadgets they are conjuring up.

its as if noone realizes that apple only takes established products that don’t sell well because of poor UI design and makes them useable while having great industrial design on the front end.

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