According to Jason D. O’Grady of ZDNet, Apple will announce a 12 or 13-inch Mac tablet this fall – most likely in September or October. It will run the full Mac OS X that current Macs use and have a slot-loading SuperDrive that the MacBooks and MacBook Pros have. Apparently, it will use an “iPhone-type” GPS chip and an Intel Core Duo processor, that is presumably their forthcoming “Atom” chip.
No word on the design has been said—it could share the MacBook’s classic design, or sport an entirely new one. If you remember back last month Intel Germany’s CEO, Hannes Schwaderer said that an iPhone would be using their Atom processor in the future – this was quickly corrected by Apple. What Schwaderer could have been referring to is a future tablet Mac using their Atom processor, not an iPhone.
There have been rumors of a Mac tablet in the past, but only recently have they become more realistic. MacRumors have pointed out that Apple has patented several tablet designs since 1995 — is now the time when Apple truly launches a tablet platform for the Mac?
No word on the design has been said—it could share the MacBook’s classic design, or sport an entirely new one. If you remember back last month Intel Germany’s CEO, Hannes Schwaderer said that an iPhone would be using their Atom processor in the future – this was quickly corrected by Apple. What Schwaderer could have been referring to is a future tablet Mac using their Atom processor, not an iPhone.
There have been rumors of a Mac tablet in the past, but only recently have they become more realistic. MacRumors have pointed out that Apple has patented several tablet designs since 1995 — is now the time when Apple truly launches a tablet platform for the Mac?
Via [ZDNet]
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