MAC junkies....

[bcdawg1]

and now the real question how much more upside potential is there in apple stock?

[Mike D]

Is it going to be flash based or hard drive?

[1369]

Is it going to be flash based or hard drive?

For something that compact I cannot see how they could roll with anything other than flash.

[Mike D]

How compact are we talking here? My wife has one of the netbooks and it has a 60GB hard drive.

[Hillary]

Call me silly, but I'm just about to pull the trigger on a new unibody Pro....and run windows on it

My work programs no worky with Mac, so Parallels is probably gonna be a better solution that carrying one good laptop and one crappy one!

I'm seriously hoping that the iTablet, iSlate, iHighPrice, whatever they call it will bring about a reduction in laptop prices.....probably just wishful thinking, but it sometimes pays to wait for the right moment.

The only exception!!

And one of the only faults, that I know of!

Parallels is nice, but it takes some room, get a big Hard Drive!

[Loneaggie]

For something that compact I cannot see how they could roll with anything other than flash.

Ah this is where Apple device history comes into play. One of the ways Apple was able to bury their competitors in the early mp3 device war was storage. The regular iPods.... not Touch products, actually use mini hard drives. That's why they had an obscene amount of storage compared to their competitors. Everyone else was pushing 8gb or less... those classic iPods have 160GB of drive space. It was an exclusive deal that Apple locked in with the drive manufacturer, it was the edge they really needed. So I'm thinking that drive technology will go into something like the slate.

I hate MS Office, unless you just HAVE to have it, I much prefer iWorks which is much cheaper and opens/saves all MS Office documents. Open Office is also an option but it isn't nearly as polished.

Rod there's actually a better option that Parallels. Use bootcamp. Install Windows 7 (support was announced this week) on its own partition. When you need your windows only software boot straight into windows and do it. You can access files from either OS is my understanding. Its a lot cheaper than buying emulation software, and gets rid of the performance overhead of running an emulation environment.

[Loneaggie]

How compact are we talking here? My wife has one of the netbooks and it has a 60GB hard drive.

My prediction is drives will be over 100gb and possibly approaching 200gb... as they already have that technology in the iPod classics which have 160gb drives now. My approach would be splitting it up though. Put the OS on a small flash drive, and have all apps/storage on a solid state drive. That way you get the option of "protecting" the OS but aren't limited by the write lifespan of the drive as it would be read only without an updater.

[1369]

They are calling it the iPad.

[huntman933]

Cool looking pad!!

[AndyTX]

All you Mac junkies can follow the unveiling of the ipad live via texting at www.macworld.com

[AndyTX]

Some picts posted too

[AndyTX]

Ah this is where Apple device history comes into play. One of the ways Apple was able to bury their competitors in the early mp3 device war was storage. The regular iPods.... not Touch products, actually use mini hard drives. That's why they had an obscene amount of storage compared to their competitors. Everyone else was pushing 8gb or less... those classic iPods have 160GB of drive space. It was an exclusive deal that Apple locked in with the drive manufacturer, it was the edge they really needed. So I'm thinking that drive technology will go into something like the slate.

I hate MS Office, unless you just HAVE to have it, I much prefer iWorks which is much cheaper and opens/saves all MS Office documents. Open Office is also an option but it isn't nearly as polished.

Rod there's actually a better option that Parallels. Use bootcamp. Install Windows 7 (support was announced this week) on its own partition. When you need your windows only software boot straight into windows and do it. You can access files from either OS is my understanding. Its a lot cheaper than buying emulation software, and gets rid of the performance overhead of running an emulation environment.

Yeah, but then you have to deal with all the headaches of a regular PC. Infections, Malware, you name it. I run Vmware fusion. Take a snapshot of windows. You can revert back to any snapshot getting rid of infections etc in an instant. Unless your running top of the line games. I see no noticeable performance hit.

[AggieBowHunter09]

I heard rumors of $600-$1000 anybody else hear of any pricing.

[huntman933]

I heard rumors of $600-$1000 anybody else hear of any pricing.

I heard 600 going on sale March 1

[Ron Meloni]

Not sure if anyone's read this, but...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple