“MacBook Touch” Coming Soon?
- July 22nd, 2008 - 11.32 pm UTC
- Apple Rumour
- Alex Brooks
MacDailyNews is going out on a limb and republishing a unconfirmed rumour sent to the site from the same source who tipped the site last year about the iTunes Wi-Fi store prior to its launch on the iPhone.
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.
MDN notes that this is a rumour, and none of the information has been independently confirmed at this time.
Comments
Joseph Crawford 23rd July 2008, 01.09 am
This would be awesome to see released.
halogan 23rd July 2008, 02.02 am
That doesn’t make any sense for 2 reasons:
1) They didn’t include the SuperDrive in MacBook Air to keep it thin, but they’re going to put it in a tablet? No way.
2) PA Semi makes PPC chips usable in portable devices like iPhone, but for desktop-like devices with full Mac OS X, Apple uses Intel. And… in Snow Leopard, there will be no support for PowerPC. So… no PPC here.
JimH 23rd July 2008, 04.19 am
Hmmm…having trouble buying into this rumor. It reeks too much of someone’s gee-whiz idea and imagination. Look at the price of screens for such a device and it gets obvious it just isn’t happening.
Bruce A 23rd July 2008, 05.06 am
Utter nonsense.
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