Heard of this? Apple "iSlate"

[spioraid]

Besides, the real geek in me has already observed that these are way more advanced that the PADDs

 

[Metaltastic]

Besides, the real geek in me has already observed that these are way more advanced that the PADDs

Hahaha, except in capacity, but that'll soon change I'm sure!

 

[SocialNumb]

http://gizmodo.com/5457176/the-most-realistic-leaked-apple-tablet-shots-yet

I guess it's being announced tomorrow. "Apple Tablet"

http://gizmodo.com/5457176/the-most-realistic-leaked-apple-tablet-shots-yet

 

[mick thompson]

yup - moment of truth tomorrow - keep an eye on cnet tv and you'll see the 1st glance

 

[JayB]

deja vu?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

I remember seeing that a while back and laughing my ass off near the end... it's so well produced I thought it was for real at first...

All your files are just a few hundred clicks away !

 

[Proggm]

The first thought that passed thru my audio-geek mind was: "Man, think of the possibilities of using this as a daw mixing console..."

 

[JBroll]

Pretty funny that thousands of new tablets are being released since the unconfirmed rumor of apple doing one was spread

They've been in production in similar scale for years. They're getting more attention, but tablets have been wasted potential since they were introduced a decade ago.

The only good real-life application I can think of for a tablet computer (further still, an "iSlate") would be something like Dr. McKay's tablet he uses around Atlantis all the time.

Open locked doors, control puddle-jumpers remotely, run blood and DNA tests, play a wicked game of pong....

There are a lot of odd places where they work out very well (education being the one I'm most familiar with), but a large part of the problem lies in people trying to use tablets as a half-assed substitute for something else.

(Is typing just too convenient and effective? Try our absurdly inefficient text-recognition for a whopping four words a minute! You won't believe how much you can't fucking accomplish! Act now, and you can also use this as an ebook reader that weighs and cost far more than the competition!)

It's insanely helpful in mathematics and physics - even the simplest of LaTeX diagram packages will require several lines and hundreds of characters to draw a basic diagram, rough sketches of curves and configurations aren't fun to do on-the-fly, et cetera - and if we can figure out the bazillions of infrastructure problems in medical technology they could be great there. (I'm leaving out the obvious cases like graphics, because they're not too mangled there.) The problems come from ineffective software that try to commit the aforementioned crimes against efficiency - everyone's seeing them as overpaid executive toys.

Between the price and the lack of really innovative software, it's not hard to see why they've been largely ignored for a decade. Hopefully that will change soon.

Jeff

 

[Ola Englund]

Today is the mf day guys!!! The day when everything turns into mac.

 

[musickey]

 

[slashvanyoung]

So the cat... no the pad... the 'iPad' is out of the bag:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad/

Placed between the iPhone and the Macbooks, it appears to be more iPhon(e)y than Macbooky.

 

[SocialNumb]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/live-from-the-apple-tablet-latest-creation-event/ <--- more pics

 

[Wolfeman]

Just heard about this on the radio.

 

[TheDriller]

meh,

 

[slashvanyoung]

I'm considerably underwhelmed as more and more details surface... This is way too much an inflated iPhone and way to less a Macbook to even remotely trigger my interested.

Like the iPhone, it's not even able to handle multitasking.

No, thanks.

 

[SocialNumb]

I saw a vid on http://cnettv.cnet.com/ saying that the new iPhone os may have multitasking. Anyone know anything else about this?

 

[egan.]

It's hard to get stoked about a big ipod touch (it can't make phone calls) that still lacks flash support.

 

[AdamWathan]

Seriously, it really is 100% just a really big iPod touch.... Soooo disappointing.

 

[slashvanyoung]

It's hard to get stoked about a big ipod touch (it can't make phone calls) that still lacks flash support.

You're right yeah. They probably left that out (even in the GSM model) to not get too deep into iPhone waters.

As is, this thing pretty much blows.

There are so many tablets coming up carrying Win 7 or Android for as much or less money, I can't comprehend why anyone would take this over them.

It's stupid, the processor in the iPad outperforms the iPhone and iPods by lightyears, yet they stick to the iPhone OS?

I can see why they wanted to preserve the highly successful and simple look and feel of the iPhone... but they could have made a similar or identical GUI running on top of OS X. Which would still be able to run apps from the appstore but wouldn't be such a crippled machine.

 

[SocialNumb]

It's not light. It feels pretty weighty in your hand.
The screen is stunning, and it's 1024 x 768. Feels just like a huge iPhone in your hands.
The speed of the CPU is something to be marveled at. It is blazingly fast from what we can tell. Webpages loaded up super fast, and scrolling was without a hiccup. Moving into and out of apps was a breeze. Everything flew.
There's no multitasking at all. It's a real disappointment. All this power and very little you can do with it at once. No multitasking means no streaming Pandora when you're working in Pages... you can figure it out. It's a real setback for this device.
The ebook implementation is about as close as you can get to reading without a stack of bound paper in your hand. The visual stuff really helps flesh out the experience. It may be just for show, but it counts here.
No camera. None, nada. Zip. No video conferencing here folks. Hell, it doesn't have an SMS app!
It's running iPhone OS 3.2.
The keyboard is good, not great. Not quite as responsive as it looked in the demos.

Now if OS 4 has multitasking at least you can use the speed.

 

[slashvanyoung]

And again no replaceable battery or storage/memory...