All Touch Apple Netbook for Q3?
March 9th, 2009 by Joanna Stern 
The world is waiting on an Apple netbook (don’t believe us, check out all the OSX running netbooks) and there now seems to be a ray of hope. Digitimes is reporting that a Taiwanese touch panel company Wintek “will supply touch panels for Apple’s new netbook, and shipments will start in the third quarter this year.” Digitimes also reports that Quanta will be the maker of Apple’s new netbook. As per any Apple rumor, there aren’t too many other details surrounding this potential product. The third quarter timing would line up well, however, with Apple’s WWDC June conference. The big questions on our minds are capabilities and pricing. Will the rumored Apple netbook be closer to an iPhone or a Macbook device? And will it have an Apple premium price? Only time will tell. [photo credit: Gizmodo]
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March 9th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Personally I’d love to see something akin to a web browsing kindle. Something about the size, weight and thickness of the Kindle. But with a responsive touchscreen and no keyboard. Presumably this means e-Ink is out since its just too slow. I could live without color and even video if necessary to keep the battery life up, but the web browsing performance on the kindle is just lacking, so I doubt this can be made to work for now.
I’d use it in the living room, as an alternative or adjunct to watching TV. Also useful as a Kitchen appliance–recipes etc. All in one, wipeable, non-glossy display. Touchscreen interface for everything, including an on screen keyboard.
Something in the 9-10″ screen range probably. At least 1024×600, and preferably higher if it isn’t too squinty. If the thing is highly responsive to scrolling, the smaller dimensions would be more livable. Multi-touch.
Wifi, preferably 802.11n for the range. A 3G version sold by the carriers could be a good idea for some.
Mine doesn’t need tons of local storage, certainly not spinning media. Just flash, in the iPhone range, e.g. 16-32GB just for apps, photos, some music, some video.
No need for a high powered processor. It just needs to support a proper browser, including flash, video codecs used on the internet etc. So feel free to use an ARM CPU if that will keep the battery life up.