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What To Expect From Apple's Rumored MacPad
Jeff writes "I decided to review the specifications of recent e-readers and mobile devices as well as the ongoing Apple rumor mill to chart out the most likely features, innovations and configuration we can expect from Apple's long awaited Newton successor/Mac Tablet which I'll call the MacPad. The MacPad will arrive in fall '09 or Jan '10, with a 10" diagonal color display, a $599 price point with a Verizon data plan, a stylus, note taking application and handwriting recognition and an e-bookstore for iTunes. Apple's biggest challenge will be convincing its huge installed base of iPhone owners that they need a MacPad too. Past failed Newtonian predictions by others are available on Slashdot and the likelihood that any of this is right can be gauged by earlier Confucian gems such as Haskin warns that Apple may be setting itself up for a failure with the iPhone."
64-128 GB of RAM?! heck, i'd buy it, rip the ram modules and throw that thing away.
Personally I think Newton's zombie would be a great name for a MacPad. iZombie.
Plus it'd be a clean, sterile looking zombie, none of this blood, dirt and torn clothes. A MetroZombie.
Task Mangler
When "a price of $599" doesn't sound intellectual enough, call it a price point and suddenly you sound like an expert.
"A week in the lab saves an hour in the library"
Tomorrow's headline will no doubt read, "First 'Behind the Stick' Review of Production Model Flying Car!" What the hey, here's a quote from the article that's not yet been written; "The SuperFlyer 6000 rides smooth as silk and corners like it's on rails. At 144 miles per gallon, you couldn't ask for more, save for the stereo which is a little bit lacking with it's 5.1 surround (we'd prefer 7.1)."
How are these far-fetched predictions any different than the many that were made for the iPhone and iPod before it?
I hate to argue about the "slashdottedness" of a post, but I don't see how this belongs here. This kind of conversation is more appropriate in MacRumors or sites like it...
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
AT&ROFLMAO
Yeah. I know a guy who's brother's girlfriend's uncle's cleaner knows someone who once talked to a guy in a bar, but *that* guy's sister's grandson's nephew's monkey's uncle was a personal friend of Steve Jobs, and he knew the guy who dries the executive's hands in the Apple research division, and that guy knows a girl who once dated Steve Ballmer, but she hated the way he sweats so much, and her friend's cousin once met Steve Jobs, who knows Jonathan Ive's accountant, who's looking for a way to write off the costs of developing a new interface for handling tablet input.
What was I.. Oh that's right, so the secret formula for Coke is mostly sugar, right, and those eleven herbs and spices? Yeah, ten of them are salt and pepper, and one's a genetically modified version of thyme, but it's crossed with a secret DNA strand that was developed in Area 51 from alien genetics. Don't ask me how I know. I'll need a chart to get *that* out.
> What To Expect From Apple's Rumored MacPad
Rumors?
and wants his Mac tablet. He said to pick it up after the Forever release party, and just before Microsoft releases BobLive.
-- $G
It will come with an installed copy of Duke Nukem Forever. And a pony.
You know, it's odd, I submitted my 5-page long fantasy review of the Asus EeeTablet just a couple of days ago, and it got no traction. Neither did my review of the fictitious Lenovo ThinkTablet, or my poignant preview of the Dell InspironPad...
Maybe I just can't write good fiction. I've been told that my protagonists lack a certain polish... They aren't glossy enough, and don't have the necessary price tag to attract the reader.
But I'll keep trying!
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
But the key was - was it submitted by a 15 year old? and without the standard rigorous slashdot review process? :)