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MacBook Touch?

Tuesday July 22, 2008 9:58 am PDT by Arnold Kim
MacDailyNews republishes an unconfirmed rumor submission about what Apple might be up to for later this year.

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion's haptic tech. Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at "low" price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick ****. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest.

MacDailyNews provides no particular confidence in the rumor, and it reads as simply a laundry list of rumored items over the past year. That being said, there have been ongoing rumors that Apple will launch a Mac tablet at some point in the future.
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Sky Blue
47 months ago
All for only $3999!
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Eidorian
47 months ago

All for only $3999!

I'm not surprised.

I'd be happier with a new MacBook instead. :rolleyes:
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Peace
47 months ago
Apple will keep the price low on this item because it will sell like hot cakes.

I can see this by September.
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Tallest Skil
47 months ago

I'd be happier with a new MacBook instead. :rolleyes:


New MacBook Pros on the 29th, please, for me.
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JML42691
47 months ago
Personally, I do not see Apple releasing any true (size-wise) tablet. It just doesn't seem to me to be all that Apple-like. I see Apple's touchscreen mobile platform sticking primarily to the iPhone and iPod touch, nothing more than that.
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currentinterest
47 months ago
Doubtful there will be any new MacBooks or MBPs before the Sept. promotion ends.
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speakerwizard
47 months ago
there is no need for devise between macbooks and iphone, and apple are not going to make a whole new sdk for this devise that would be no more successful than the failed umpc's. But we will still here this rumor after every apple statement and before every apple event :rolleyes:
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AlphaAnt
47 months ago

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with Immersion's haptic tech. Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelerometer. GPS. Pretty expensive to produce initially, but sold at "low" price that will reduce margins. Apple wants to move these babies. And move they will. This is some sick ****. App Store-compatible, able to run Mac apps, too. By October at the latest


I doubt they would get half of that in a device. Especially with a SuperDrive. If they put an optical drive in it, I'll never buy something with that much wasted space inside.
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twoodcc
47 months ago
now i think this would do great! really hope this happens
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11800506
47 months ago
This doesn't really sound very true especially the fact that it could run app stores apps. That just puzzles me a bit as why you would want to too :confused:
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