Apple iTablet Mac Communicator?

What is it with this tablet-craze everybody is on :confused:
Is everybody who wants one secretly in the medical industry wanting to look up a patient's history or just flick through some pages of an ebook?

I have never understood what use a tablet (that's too big to put in your pocket) would be to the average consumer, but perhaps I'm not thinking of every angle...

So far a pure tablet (without a keyboard) hasn't been very successful, so why should it be if apple slaps on the :apple: and puts osx on it? It still stays a strict "too big for your pocket and strictly point and click - no decent input possibilities"-device, or am I missing something?

Sounds like a cool device. Also a remote control.

A Star Trek work tablet thingy from Next Generation.

I dont really like the idea of a remote thingy unless it works nicely as a Mac in it's own right, but I've always wanted a true osX tablet.

For art!

And now Apple have proven their multitouch/software keyboard abilities I can't see why there are people so against the idea of a tablet. If it was done well there'd be very little lost functionality over a traditional laptop form factor. and you'd have (hopefully) something like wacom pressure in there too. And it'd use up much less space, be more portable... etc.

Bring on the Mac tablet! .. Saying that - I bet they dont even give a stylus option, making it almost entirely useless for artists unless they specialise in finger painting. :(

Users will be able to screen share with their home or work computer from a remote location, video conference with other users, and information suggests the iTablet will have beaming capabilities.

Just as long as it doesn't "squirt" anything I think we'll be okay. :p

i'll believe it when i see it. but i hope i see it, whatever it is

I have faith that whatever apple releases will be sweet.

Doubt this very much.

It actually doesn't even sound appealing.

Mini DVDs? Uh, right.

information suggests the iTablet will have beaming capabilities

What information?:eek: Where? Will I need eye protection? Body armo(u)r? Can iBeam and if so where? And iTablet? Worst. Name. Ever.

LoopRumors has had a spotty accuracy record in the past

. Hilarious!

Reading of the functionality described in thus rumor reminds me.. The iPhone killer app is: Apple Remote Desktop! (We already have VNSee on hacked phones which is a start, and proof of my assertion.) Apple should get this on the iPhone right away. Control iTunes with your phone. Control Keynote, Front Row, any app. Read any document, cause file transfers, control any peripheral hooked to your Mac (for me that's EyeTV).

Apple Remote Desktop is iPhone's killer app! I've been saying this since way before there was an iPhone. [In 2004 and later]