There have been talks and speculations for a while now about whether or not Apple will expand their product line to offer a tablet/touch screen computer. I've posted some concepts a while back and tho Apple has said that they probably will not dive into that market, it's always nice to look at what could be. Who knows, perhaps with so much buzz about the possibility, Apple may decide to go for it.
Will they? or Won't they? They meaning the fine developers over at Apple. The what is regarding the idea of a touch screen laptop computer. According to maclife.com, that's all it is; a rumor. Apparently there had been some discussion about possibly developing a laptop that would mimic the interface developed for the iPhone and iPod Touch. However maclife.com states that after doing some market reasearch, they determined that this was not the way to go. But, there is talk of mac developing some type of tablet pc. It is supposed to be smaller than your traditional laptop but larger than your current smart phone. Something similar to the Amazon Kindle in size, but with a larger screen (about 7.5"). It would allow users to take advantage of things already created for the iPhone such as applications and the Apps store which would give this concept device thousands of applications usable from launch. And being that Apple has already found ways to open legacy programs on newer devices, persons already using the iPhone version of applications will be able to open those on this new device. Now will this product actually make it out of conception? Only time will tell. Especially since the market hasn't really been that receptive to computers like this in the past. However we've seen how Apple can make it happen.
As for now all of these ideas are just concepts. And the designers have run with them. Here are a few for the MacBook Touch:
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