[NTLK] The Apple Tablet (aka iNewt) saga, part 4,037,862

[Ryan Vetter]

Hi Joe!

I agree on the handwriting recognition.

As for battery life, I am certain it will be very good.  The reason is that Apple has now mastered the "unibody battery" design.  With a tablet, they have much more space to lay out a battery in this fashion, so it will be much, much bigger than the iPhone's.  I think they will also take internal component design hints from the MacBook Air.  That motherboard is super small.  They could do something as small or smaller with the board if using ARM processors, and inject a massive battery in this thing.  Couple this with power efficient ARM processors and it should be pretty good.  I expect as good or better than the 17" MacBook Pro.  I actually expect them to market is as something that you really don't need to bring an AC adapter with.  Real world a solid 6 hours.  That would be good.

So, let's see what happens.

Here's hoping for the best, Joe!


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Ryan,
Depends on what you mean by really good (battery life? I hope its more "Newton ARM" battery life and less "iphone/itouch ARM" battery life LOL! I hope even if they don't include a stylus "in box" they at least put the hwr tech (inkwell?) in the device so you can get those fancy 3rd party multi touch stylus. 

Joe Reilly
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Hi:

Some of my sources that are directly involved at the Yerba Center have led me to the position that there will be an event at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, and it will be where the tablet is unveiled.  I have speculated on the design.  But that's anybody's guess.  The only necessity in my mind is a prop arm built into the unit.  If Apple doesn't build that in I will be surprised.

What I am really excited about are two things: two main points of innovation that this device should have.  1) a custom ARM chipset.  Apple's supposedly developing their own in-house ARM chipsets so they could really come up with something exciting.  2) a completely new multi-touch operating system.

I think battery life will be really good on this device because they are supposedly using ARM processors.  But we won't know for sure until they reveal.

I just wonder about the stylus... if one will be possible.



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