I really think part of Apple's desire to move forward with Intel is Intel's success in making sensible laptop chips. The mini, the iBook ... these are machines which jive will with a "digital lifestyle". Make it portable. Make it hackable. Make it cheap. I'm certainly not knocking your powerhouse tower Mac ... but not everyone wants to shell out a few grand.
Course, this currently costs $2,000 ... but it's really the kind of machine I'd like to see Apple make. Small, Wifi, full OS with keyboard and touchscreen:
These things are teeny—235mm by 155mm by 31mm—and can weigh under three pounds in the right configuration. The model you're looking at here is a 1GHz Transmeta Crusoe-based system, the A33i; it comes with 512MB of DDR memory, a 1024x600 screen, and some flavor of Radeon Mobility graphics. There are also a couple of models based on the Pentium M "Dothan" running at 1.1 to 1.2GHz.
As if they Flybook weren't fly enough already, these things are also tablet PCs, complete with swiveling screens that are touch-sensitive. The screen will fold down to cover the keyboard and then rotate to the user's preferred orientation. The Flybook is then operating in tablet mode, complete with handwriting recognition.
As if they Flybook weren't fly enough already, these things are also tablet PCs, complete with swiveling screens that are touch-sensitive. The screen will fold down to cover the keyboard and then rotate to the user's preferred orientation. The Flybook is then operating in tablet mode, complete with handwriting recognition.
--Flybook A33i [techreport.com] (thanks Gizmodo)
Update: Talk about thinking little.
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