Warren Seen

from Apple.

It’s scary, I guessed the form factor to the inch even:

While an OS X based tablet would be cool, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Apple deliver something in a smaller form factor, say 7″-10″ and geared towards video and the web on the go – bridging the gap between a handheld and a true tablet form factor.

A lot of people don’t seem to get it, but to my way of thinking, a tablet PC the same size as a conventional “notebook” PC has minimal advantages. In fact, it has all the disadvantages of lugging a laptop that size around (owww, my shoulder). I want a tablet I can take with me to crash on the couch, or the coffee shop, or the back garden, so I can catch up on reading email, RSS, websites, which I can do without needing a 50wpm input device like a keyboard. This to me is truly notebook sized, not the 15″ screen “notebook” i have on my desk now.

If it’s larger than a book, then I’ll just take a book instead. There’s your design spec for portability right there.

Now i wonder if it can be hacked to run OS X? Even if it could, it still lacks the sexy Apple industrial design. I’m still holding out hope that Apple will bring something similar to market soon… after all iPod wasn’t the first MP3 player, and that proved the naysayers wrong when they said that there was no market and it would flop.

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