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These are the famous words of Steve Jobs which he said at MacWorldExpo 2007 and you cant deny that Apple at least on two occasions in past 10 years have done justice to this statement. First with iPods in 2001 and then with iPhone in 2007. So does this mean that they are also going to revolutionize our mobile computing with MacBook Touch?
MacBook Touch: Concept Video
Today in the world of PCs we already have touch-capable notebooks in the form of Tablet Computers but they have a couple of big problems:
- They aren’t multi touch and that they still have a keyboard.
- They are very expensive.
With Windows 7, we are going to see support for multi-touch natively in any Windows for the first time. Microsoft already demonstrated this at this years D6 conference where a demo was shown in which the next Windows showed off its multi touch capabilities. This means that notebook manufactures like HP, Dell and the likes will have their slick devices coming up when Windows 7 is available which will supports multi touch. But I see a problem for Microsoft & their hardware partners like HP and Dell because since Windows 7 wont be available until at least the end of 2009 or 2010, this might give Apple a chance to penetrate & capture notebook(touch) market!
If the rumors are to be believed, we might see a multi touch capable full version of OS X packed in a iPhone(y) like shiny sexy metal case in the start of 2009. Its widely believed by Apple fan sites that at MacWorldExpo 2009 a device by the name of MacBook Touch will debut and would steel the thunder of Windows 7 and its multi touch capabilities.
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November 15th, 2008
9 Comments/Trackbacks on "Apple MacBook Touch: Is it coming?"
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And the next to buy after the iPhone …
And the programs have to be written for “Multi-Touch” …
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Problem with this article.
The Dell Latitude XT has multitouch and also a keyboard (best of both worlds) though it is expensive. If you are looking for cheap, there’s that new Gateway tablet for ~$500. Nothing great, but for $500 it’s not bad.
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Back in 2003 Microsoft announced a ton of features only to see Apple implement them, often less then a year from Vista getting released.
In this case however, Microsoft has a touch API in place (Surface) and Apple has… the iPhone. So who knows who will implement first.
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Who will implement first? That’s a funny question to me, cause the iPhone is implementing. Windows 7. Holy cow, we can’t get them past Vista SP2 and we’re talking 7. Good luck on the next-gen Windows.
Yert, your comment must be baiting. If you knew anything about OS X you would not make such silly statements.
The quality of the MacBook Touch is so superior to that of the Windows demo… But I think it will be something smaller, say the iNote or iPad. And yes, I think MacWorld 09 would be the place.
iPhone in 07. Air in 08. Tablet in 09. Windows 7 in … (and counting)
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@John: How do you know that the quality of MacBook Touch is superior? The MacBook Touch picture & video above is only a ‘concept’ pic/video from fans. There is nothing official on it from Apple.
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John McElhenney said:
September 18th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Perhaps i misspoke. What I meant to say was, look at the demo for Windows 7.
As far as build quality, I recently upgraded a G4 powerbook that was 5+ years old. And the ID is almost identical to the new MBP I purchased. They have made some significant improvements. And ONE major failure. If you want to upgrade the HD in the MBP get your engineering hat on. The MacBook I bought for my wife has 3 screws and pop, out comes the HD and the RAM. The MBP has great RAM access. But the HD placement is as arcane as the white box manufacturers.
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The Apple presentation looks more polished than the Windows 7 presentation, check out the art work that can be done on the Mac as opposed to the pre-school looking art work on Windows,and the full life like piano keyboard on the Mac,and GPS, you can also notice the presenter on the windows footage having to tap two or three times for a command to be executed, they even mention ‘just like the iphone’ a couple of times, as usual way more steps on the Windows than the Mac to accomplish the same goal. I work on and sell computers for a living and have experienced many problems with the HP
touch screen computers, and a big percentage of people complain about Vista and now starting to complain about Windows 7 , without it even being released. They want XP not something new. Hope Windows has an ace in the hole , they may need to use it. People are finding the best of both worlds on a Mac.
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william said:
November 4th, 2008 at 6:18 am
just so u know the mactouch was released in 2006, its called the modbook. it has all the features listed on this site, so thats probably were this all started. its made by axiotron and uses the apple computers, and they add gps into the bundle.
http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook
with apple releasing a new line of macbooks which are based on the new imacs, axiotron is sure to incorperate that design into the new modbooks as well. so the image of the macbook touch could be just a concept image from axiotron.
apple has had the software for years and years for a tablet to work, but they just havn’t been bothered to it it them selves. the tablet that axiotron makes is a bit pricey but thats because they have to buy a macbook then make the modifications to it.
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