DSmac?
I can't help myself but have an image of something similar to if the Nintendo DSi merged with a macbook. Dual screen and the glass touchpad would be like the DS's one. Instead of a mouse click, you double tap to open folders etc.
This would be a total mis-step for mac/apple. Not only would it add extra hardware for one to lose, but it would also be come reliant on a very out modded type of tech. The days of the stylus and easy to rip/tear plastic screen are all but gone. (Not that I won't probably buy the DSi; 'cause dear gods is it sexy), but for most of us we look at the near future and see things like high glossy glass surfaces that we can touch, feel, and hopefully not break, that make us feel like we are adults playing with grown up toys, and not well toys. Though the possibility of say a "dual screen" mac, that might open like a book or could be set up as like a DS/DSi where the bottom is finder and the top would be your actual document, might be useful, the idea of having a screen made like the DS would be quantum leap back wards. Why would a company who has pioneered a multi-touch culture ever want to go back to things like PDA Graffiti? Ever try writing your name clearly on that annoying little screen for credit cards while at Worst Deal or Carbon Copy and it not be able to keep up?
I am in full support of a MacBook Touch, something that might resemble the already existing "ModBook" in functionality, but if it were to be totally reliant on the stylus and would require overtly complex gestures to do basic functions, why bother using anything but a mouse? (Granted, trying to remember all the current gestures on my MacBook can get a little thick), but they are for the most part second nature now. However, if my MacBook suddenly became like playing Okami (on the wii especially), where I had to be able to make a perfect circle around an icon while drunk, I'd kill somebody with the stylus for irony sake I'm sure. I would probably use something like a wacom pen or the iPhone Sketch stylus for exact things like drawing, but for everyday functions, I =hate= using my wacom tablet as a mouse replacement. Sadly, this is what using a dual screen set up would be like. One screen you can touch and manipulate (i.e. like brain age on the DS), and the other screen you'd have to guess as to when the cursor will run out of room to move cause you had to drag it from too near the top of the bottom screen. Would you then use a mechanical button to ensure that if you had to readjust your "grip" on the file - so you wouldn't accidentally delete the file or lose it in another stack? Or would you then rely on the aforementioned multi-touch parameters to allow for a "Click" while you "drag" with the stylus. Something that the DS can't (as far as I'm aware) handle doing. Over all, I'd agree, yes a DS or DSi running Leopard would rock! However, the application beyond novelty would wear thin in about 15 minutes,(or maybe after 3 shots of jaggermeister?), and venture quickly into frustration.
