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1. TheSnarkmeister

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   A Newton revival?

   Hallelujah! It is about time.

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1. Feathers

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   11/06, 09:47am | report spam | close reply

   newton saves the world...

   ...anybody remember Steven Seagal using a Newton to save the world in Under Seige II?

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1. Feathers

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   11/06, 09:48am | report spam | close reply

   i before e...

   Damn...correction to my previous post: Should read "Under Siege II". I before E except after C...write out one hundred times...my bad!

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1. testudo

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   And...

   how long will ASUS be involved with this project if all they're doing is talking about it?
   
   But it won't happen. As has been said over and over again on these boards, the market for tablets (and sub-notebooks, and sub-$2000 towers, and cheap 15" laptops) is too small for Apple to get involved in it.

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1. jeph4e

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   Newton II

   Newton II? It would be so great to see the Newton brand come back rather than the iTablet or iCarryItAround or iWishicouldthinkofbetternames or iMacPortable of MacBookPorty

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1. xoch

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   Don't see it.

   This is one of those pointlessly geeky gadgets that just doesn't look or feel like Apple. The streamlined product line suddenly starts to feel cluttered and inelegant, like the early '90s. When consumers pause to grasp their options, you can bet a sale is at risk, and the brand image is getting diffused. This rumor is way off.

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1. jeph4e

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   Duh

   Apple Makes Markets.
   
   Too small? BS. Every market is "too small" till you grow it.
   
   The key is having the remarkable product that solves a problem or provides better solutions.
   
   Tablets are great if you are managing data on the go. Gee, there are none of those folks out there.

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1. ibugv4

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   11/06, 10:59am | report spam | close reply

   I'll be first in line

   Apple's been developing this thing since 2002. It's about time. I hope it sports a radically new design than anyting we currently have. I don't want steel and glass, make it all glass or something. Make it pretty.

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1. gitcypher

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   jeph4e

   iAgree

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1. Rezzz

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   11/06, 11:15am | report spam | close reply

   NDA

   great. now we have to wait 4 more months while steve finds a new manufacturer. when will these turds learn that when apple says "STFU" they mean it?
   
   i hope a***, errrr, asus enjoys their temporary bump in stock price. hardware is commodity. there's more than one motherboard manufacturer in Taiwan.

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1. Rance

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   11/06, 11:22am | report spam | close reply

   Errr...

   >>Apple's been developing this thing since 2002.
   
   I don't know about that statement. More like "every year since 2002, the rumor sites have predicted a tablet." I think that's a more accurate statement. The iPhone is the new Newton.

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1. lurkerdude

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   creating the market

   I think there's a market for tablets waiting to be created, particularly in the business world. If someone could effortlessly push documents and presentations, or stream videos through wifi, I think that would be killer in some areas. Some UI components, like Dashboard, would be a good fit for a tablet. There need to be some good business/collaboration apps. For the home user, I still have trouble seeing the value of it over a laptop, iMac, etc.
   
   If they took a laptop, added a touch screen, moved the computer components behind the screen, and made the keyboard detachable, that would probably be enough for me to take a chance... if I didn't like it, at least I'd still have a laptop... but maybe none of that is practical.
   
   

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1. coffeetime

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   newton

   I went to see Ringling Brothers circus the other day and the people there are still using Newton to scan tickets. I can imagine they probaby still using Mac OS 7.6 to collect those data. People that I know who uses tablet are they who came to my house measuring for new carpet and those who work in hardware warehouse type of store. Don't see Apple fits in any of these.

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1. coffeetime

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   tablet

   My prediction is it would be an accessory. A smart tablet accessory that has memory built-in and you can carry it to your meeting. Once meeting is over, you bring it back to your computer and sync it. You can also use it as drawing tablet vs. a mouse. This tablet share the same strip down MacOSX as the iPhone and iTouch have. It will be Mac & PC compatible. If it's true, it will be popular among designers or it would be just another hobby toy like AppleTV.

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1. jpruden

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   Schools will eat them up.

   I work at a high school in the SF Bay Area. I know of at LEAST 8 local schools that will buy 350 of these tablets PER YEAR if Apple builds them.
   
   Now Apple just has to avoid making it hard for students to get data off of the machines. Ahhh... no more Gateway tablets...

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1. Peter Bonte

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   11/06, 02:35pm | report spam | close reply

   cheap and small

   i'l buy a $500, 12' touchscreen with about the same mobile osX the iPhone has. Next year is perfectly in time for a slew of 3P apps for the Touch, iPone and MyTablet®.

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1. Eriamjh

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   It won't be cheap...

   If there is a newton, it will cost $400 to $600 or more. It won't come down until in price unless it's a success.
   
   A tablet? Perhaps a version of a tablet, but not just a notebook with a tablet interface. Something more...
   
   Jobs is red hot right now. He is innovating in ways that boggle the mind. He doesn't jump on markets. He's always thinking and evolving concepts.
   
   The PDA is dead. The iPhone is hot, but just a phone. A tablet would have to be all those and more. Only Jobs knows what it is until it is announced.

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1. MacnnGregor

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   11/07, 01:29pm | report spam | close reply

   A REAL pda

   I agree with lurkerdude about practicality and I really hope there is something in the wings with some "from the ground up" innovation that informed the iMacs and the iPod.
   
   What I really want (and have on forums for the last 5 years) is something the size of a paperback book or DVD jacket that has eBook, iPod, pda and touchscreen capabilities. The perfect "tablet" for me is one that opens up from a clam shell into a table with two screens that can orient themselves vertically to look like a book or horizontally to look like a micro labtop with a touchscreen where the keyboard would sometimes be.
   
   This would be my digital wallet, run most apps well short of Photoshop and its ilk, but allow me to do iApps and keep track of expenses, email, etc.
   
   Paperback books have over a century of evolution for the right size and weight that most people are willing to carry on buses or to bed and they represent a blending of size vs. function that would not be a compromise between laptops and iPods, but a truly emergent form of portable computing.