Next great Apple product: A modern Newton or a Macbook Touch?

fleurya · Sep 26, 2007

Just saw these new rumors online.

Newton 2

Macbook Touch

Does anyone think either of these have a chance of being real? I would vote for the Macbook before another Newton, but chances are it won't look that good.

RONE · Sep 26, 2007

They need to hurry up and make a touch macbook

AtTheCross · Sep 26, 2007

1.5 times the size of an iPhone? I would not want one, too big.

amrk47 · Sep 26, 2007

fleurya said:
Just saw these new rumors online.

Newton 2

Macbook Touch

Does anyone think either of these have a chance of being real? I would vote for the Macbook before another Newton, but chances are it won't look that good.

what OS is that on the "Touch macbook"?

cheesybanana · Sep 26, 2007

No way. No market.

Add a few apps to the iPhone or the Touch, and you will have everything you would need.

smeshy123 · Sep 26, 2007

if a touch laptop comes out, I'll be the first in line

fleurya · Sep 26, 2007

Plans for another Newton PDA/UMPC crossover could be the reason they're limiting the functionality of the Touch.

cheesybanana · Sep 26, 2007

fleurya said:
Plans for another Newton PDA/UMPC crossover could be the reason they're limiting the functionality of the Touch.

Maybe. I just really couldn't see Apple trying again. It would fill out their product line pretty nice. From the Shuffle to the Mac Pro.

caloge · Sep 26, 2007

i think the tablet macbook is a good idea, im not personally crazy about it and would never buy it but I think there is a small market out there for tablets that apple has not tapped yet, maybe a swivel tablet makes more sense with a keyboard, still not my thing but its more versatile, but what do i know

kaidomac · Sep 26, 2007

That Macbook tablet does look pretty nice...it's like a portable version of Microsoft Surface

davidgallant · Sep 26, 2007

Dell has a tablet coming out but if apple did release one, i am sure they would crush the opposition

ki99 · Sep 27, 2007

amrk47 said:
what OS is that on the "Touch macbook"?

OS X 10.5 - "Leopard". Due out this October.

fleurya said:
Plans for another Newton PDA/UMPC crossover could be the reason they're limiting the functionality of the Touch.

that would make a lot of sense. but i really can just see them making the iphone more pda as it progresses rather than something like a new newton.

but it IS apple, so you never know.

iNewton

isb6481 · Sep 27, 2007

who needs a touch laptop?!

nokialed · Sep 27, 2007

touch screens are just a pain. hard to use accurately. thats why a mouse pointer is tiny, unlike your big clumsy fingers.

plus, how do you type on them? touch screen typing is so slow.

i cant see much use for them. the only people who seem to use touch screen tablets are delivery drivers and repair men.

alexfromtheland · Sep 27, 2007

yeah, i wouldnt want one, it would be cool to have touch screen on a laptop with a keyboard but meh not only touch screen.

fleurya · Sep 27, 2007

nokialed said:
touch screens are just a pain. hard to use accurately. thats why a mouse pointer is tiny, unlike your big clumsy fingers.

plus, how do you type on them? touch screen typing is so slow.

i cant see much use for them. the only people who seem to use touch screen tablets are delivery drivers and repair men.

In case you haven't seen any PDAs over the past 10+ years, there is handwriting recognition that's plenty fast when you're good at it.

There are lots of applications for tablets, it just you don't know about them unless you're in a situation. I wish I had one this semester for classes: 3 of them are in a room with old high school style desks, so I can't use my MBP. However, a guy that sits next to me has a tablet, so he gets along fine using his computer.

nokialed · Sep 27, 2007

fleurya said:
In case you haven't seen any PDAs over the past 10+ years, there is handwriting recognition that's plenty fast when you're good at it.

There are lots of applications for tablets, it just you don't know about them unless you're in a situation. I wish I had one this semester for classes: 3 of them are in a room with old high school style desks, so I can't use my MBP. However, a guy that sits next to me has a tablet, so he gets along fine using his computer.

yeh ive got and use a pda, and i would bet my years wages you cant type half as quick using the stylus as i can with a keyboard. its ok, but nowhere near as fast.

fleurya · Sep 27, 2007

One more time: you don't have to type on an onscreen keyboard, you use a stylus to write just like handwriting and the computer recognizes the writing and turns it into text for you. Of course it's not as fast as typing on a keyboard, nothing is, but it's a lot better than typing one letter at a time with a stylus the way you're describing.

caloge · Sep 27, 2007

what would be cool is if it had somehting like this. http://cgi.ebay.ca/Bluetooth-Laser-...oryZ4706QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
but built in.
So you could use it as a tablet, then stand it on a desk and it be like a notebook.

nokialed · Sep 28, 2007

fleurya said:
One more time: you don't have to type on an onscreen keyboard, you use a stylus to write just like handwriting and the computer recognizes the writing and turns it into text for you. Of course it's not as fast as typing on a keyboard, nothing is, but it's a lot better than typing one letter at a time with a stylus the way you're describing.

im not talking about one letter at a time, ONE MORE TIME FOR YOU, i have and USE a PDA. i know how to use the stylus to do handwriting. but its still 50 times slower than typing.

maybe before you get all high and mighty you should read my post. if i own a PDA its a fair bet i know what you are talking about!