Comments on: All Touch Apple Netbook for Q3? http://blog.laptopmag.com/all-touch-apple-netbook-for-q3 News and views on today's hottest laptops, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:37:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Fanfoot http://blog.laptopmag.com/all-touch-apple-netbook-for-q3/comment-page-1#comment-18362 Fanfoot Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:37:02 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=12575#comment-18362 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 1024x600, 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. 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.

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