Would the rumoured/anticipated Tablet be a full Mac OS X system?
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From: JF Mezei on 21 Dec 2009 21:14 Michelle Steiner wrote: > I don't care which OS Apple's tablet will use: a modified Mac OS, a > modified iPhone OS, or one written just for it. So long as it can do what > I want it to do, and I can afford it, I'll buy one. ipods/iphone have a close proprietary architecture because Apple has to please the MAFIAA and make it hard to copy music/movies. Iphone is further closed because mobile networks don't want customers mucking about tghe phone with their own stuff. If the tablet is meant as an entertainment device (watch movies on a bigger screen than an ipod), the it would likely run the ipodtouch version of OS-X. If it is meant as an computer more than an entertainment device, it would run full fledged OS-X. One also needs to consider power. Arm based OS-X would likely point to a ipod version of OS-X. 8086 based table woudl likely point to a fill OS-X version, just like laptops. Apple also needs to look at whether it intends to support touchscreen for its computer version of OS-X. While some have made arguments about prefering mouse to work on a desk, there are other uses for a touchscreen computer (expecially with a screen large enough to make presentations).
From: commiebastard on 21 Dec 2009 21:26 On Dec 21, 1:15 pm, "A+" <alan.bro...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ramble post. Maybe off topic. Perhaps not. > > Let's begin with my desired configuration for a tablet Mac. > > - A dual-core Atom running up to 2 GHz with at least 2 GB of DDR2/1066 > RAM. > - A hard disk. Yes, you heard me! A hard disk. eg: 250 GB Toshiba > 7mm thin drive. > - Mac OS X 10.6 > - 1920x1080 screen of at least 10" diagonal > - WiFi 802.11n, Firewire 800, 2 x USB 2.0 > - A 12 - 18 channel GPS receiver. Okay, a low power consumption 8 > channel GPS will do. > - 8 hours battery life (I'll settle for 6). > - stereo headphone jack (or something more exotic), microphone and > grudgingly, a camera. > > - not sure if Bluetooth is of any value > - Phone not needed - however, I'm sure Apps for the iPhone will appear > to link for the tablet. > > Importantly, other than what is needed to make this run in the tablet > form, I want this to be a full OS X 10.6 implementation. > > [It would be great for example, if VMWare Fusion could run on it, I'd > even pay for another WinXP license to have that additional > capability. With a full OS X in there, that should not be an issue, > though 'pointing' and 'keyboard' might.] > > Feb 2010 @ $899 is my guess. How much will voice activation/voice interaction with the menus etc...will play a part in the design of this device I wonder? The iPod nano has a voice activated interface already.
From: commiebastard on 21 Dec 2009 21:30 On Dec 21, 9:26 pm, commiebastard <oraclmas...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 21, 1:15 pm, "A+" <alan.bro...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Ramble post. Maybe off topic. Perhaps not. > > > Let's begin with my desired configuration for a tablet Mac. > > > - A dual-core Atom running up to 2 GHz with at least 2 GB of DDR2/1066 > > RAM. > > - A hard disk. Yes, you heard me! A hard disk. eg: 250 GB Toshiba > > 7mm thin drive. > > - Mac OS X 10.6 > > - 1920x1080 screen of at least 10" diagonal > > - WiFi 802.11n, Firewire 800, 2 x USB 2.0 > > - A 12 - 18 channel GPS receiver. Okay, a low power consumption 8 > > channel GPS will do. > > - 8 hours battery life (I'll settle for 6). > > - stereo headphone jack (or something more exotic), microphone and > > grudgingly, a camera. > > > - not sure if Bluetooth is of any value > > - Phone not needed - however, I'm sure Apps for the iPhone will appear > > to link for the tablet. > > > Importantly, other than what is needed to make this run in the tablet > > form, I want this to be a full OS X 10.6 implementation. > > > [It would be great for example, if VMWare Fusion could run on it, I'd > > even pay for another WinXP license to have that additional > > capability. With a full OS X in there, that should not be an issue, > > though 'pointing' and 'keyboard' might.] > > > Feb 2010 @ $899 is my guess. > > How much will voice activation/voice interaction with the menus > etc...will play a part in the design of this device I wonder? The iPod > nano has a voice activated interface already. Pardon...it wasn't the iPod nano, it was the shuffle that has the VoiceOver. Right now VoiceOver is pretty primitive on the Shuffle, I wonder if a more advanced version will be available on the tablet with actual interaction to tell which menus, files to open etc...
From: Paul Sture on 22 Dec 2009 09:00 In article <timmcn-450039.19093621122009(a)news-2.mpls.iphouse.net>, Tim McNamara <timmcn(a)bitstream.net> wrote: > In article <m2ws0gp3ed.fsf(a)revier.com>, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> > wrote: > > > Maybe, but don't be surprised if what you get is an oversized iPhone > > with an OS based on the iPhone OS. > > I think that is probably more likely than a full OS X installation. I > want one that is 8.5 x 11" or A4 size so that I can digitize all my > music lead sheets and just take that to gigs and rehearsals instead of a > pile of fake books. Ditto. I want one which displays an A4 page properly - in other words at 90� to the orientation of traditional computer screens, but for movies still works in "landscape mode". I actually saw this on a dumb terminal some 20 years ago. You could use it like a normal 24 x 80 terminal but when you rotated the screen it automatically switched to 66 x 132 for reading computer listings. -- Paul Sture
From: sbt on 22 Dec 2009 11:36
In article <paul.nospam-A5BCBA.15005322122009(a)pbook.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote: > In article <timmcn-450039.19093621122009(a)news-2.mpls.iphouse.net>, > Tim McNamara <timmcn(a)bitstream.net> wrote: > > > In article <m2ws0gp3ed.fsf(a)revier.com>, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> > > wrote: > > > > > Maybe, but don't be surprised if what you get is an oversized iPhone > > > with an OS based on the iPhone OS. > > > > I think that is probably more likely than a full OS X installation. I > > want one that is 8.5 x 11" or A4 size so that I can digitize all my > > music lead sheets and just take that to gigs and rehearsals instead of a > > pile of fake books. > > Ditto. I want one which displays an A4 page properly - in other words at > 90� to the orientation of traditional computer screens, but for movies > still works in "landscape mode". > > I actually saw this on a dumb terminal some 20 years ago. You could use it > like a normal 24 x 80 terminal but when you rotated the screen it > automatically switched to 66 x 132 for reading computer listings. You're most likely thinking of the Corvus Concept. It was a pretty neat 68K-based computer that predated the Lisa and Mac. Radius produced a portrait monitor for the Mac in the Mac II era -- I really liked it as the second monitor on my IIcx. -- Spenser |