Tablet Mac!

by Oliver Breidenbach

Other World Computing and Axiotron throw down the gauntlet and announce the first Tablet Mac to be unveiled at Macworld 2007. This is going to be interesting. (Axiotron Press Release)

8 Comments

Mark Fleser
2007-01-04 08:43:44 		It isn't made by Apple though. They're just going to announce it on the same day at Macworld.
Steve
2007-01-04 08:47:22 		The link leads to a blank page??
Steve
2007-01-04 08:48:50 		Oh, uh, never mind. They must've been updating the page or something.
weldon
2007-01-04 09:53:25 		It looks like a tablet made by ripping apart a MacBook and sticking it's inards into a tablet case with a touchscreen. Not that exciting to me.

2007-01-04 10:01:00 		Interesting comments. If it is not by Apple the idea is suddenly not as hot? If it was by Apple it would surely be a world shaking sensation.


I think it rather brave by Axiotron and OWC that they try out the idea for Apple. I am just curious to see how Apple will respond. And I am curious to see how well it works.

Simon Hibbs
2007-01-04 13:30:11 		>Interesting comments. If it is not by Apple
>the idea is suddenly not as hot? If it was
>by Apple it would surely be a world shaking
>sensation.


Because you know, tablet PCs were the breakthrough must-have products that everyone's been buying for the last few years... er....
Oliver Breidenbach
2007-01-04 13:56:32 		Because you know, tablet PCs were the breakthrough must-have products that everyone's been buying for the last few years... er....


A tablet Mac is certainly not a mainstream product, but I know a couple of people who worked with Tablet PCs and swear by them. There are many uses for a Tablet Mac that make perfect sense such as running surveys, protocolling various things, mobile data aquisition. Some of them require large screen estate. When the Newton was alive, my company alone had about a dozend large scale projects where hundreds of Newtons were to be used as tablet input devices. Unfortunately, Apple was not flexible enough regarding hardware modifications so most of them did not materialise. Interestingly, Andreas Haas, who runs Axiotron, once was in Apple's Newton Systems Group.

Oliver Breidenbach
2007-01-04 14:01:17 		PS. Take a look at the Board of Advisors of Axiotron: Those guys know the Mac market. And obviously they believe there is a market for a Tablet Mac.
 
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