Apple’s Mystery: MacBook Touch or Mac Tablet

Apple's Mystery: MacBook Touch or Mac Tablet
There’s a tech rumors around us about a Mac tablet to get a gulp of oxygen after Apple executives revealed a hint at a “Future Product Transition,” followed by whispers of a “MacBook Touch” slated for the fall.

Apple tech rumor No. 1: Monday’s quarterly earnings report from Apple, during which CFO Peter Oppenheimer mentioned several times about a “Future Product Transition, which I can’t discuss it today.”

Of course, that touched off a frenzy of speculation, ranging from a revamp of the Apple MacBook and Apple MacBook Pro notebooks (rumors of which were recently fanned by purported spy shots of new casings) to the new Apple iPods, or even “a new form factor of devices that are smaller than a laptop but larger than an Apple iPhone,” as the New York Times put it.

The we have Apple tech rumor No. 2: A news from MacDailyNews, in which an anonymous tipster claims to have details on an upcoming Apple MacBook Touch or Apple Mac Tablet:

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X … Slot-loading SuperDrive. Accelermoeter. GPS … By October at the latest.


Exactly as MacDailyNews itself warned us, this is only a rumor, and chatter about a tabletized Apple MacBook is nothing new. But combine the MDN report with the hints from Apple’s conference call, and suddenly we’ve got a Mac tablet firestorm version on our hands.

Right again, not everyone’s taking it seriously ; Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog, for example, notes that a Apple Mac tablet would be a new product, not a product transition, and leans instead toward a new Apple iPod line with touch controls and solid-state drives with new features.


So, do you think that we will have a Apple MacBook Touch in our future? Would you consider to buy one, and for how much would you spend on it? What features would you like to see, and what would you use it for?

Related Apple’s Mystery: MacBook Touch or Mac Tablet News:
An iTease: Something Cool and Cheap From Apple [NYT]
RUMOR: Apple’s secret product is ‘MacBook touch’ [MacDailyNews]

8 Comments so far

  1. jenny on July 25th, 2008

    I’m not surprise when it’s from Apple. I already have Apple Macbook pro. Not going to buy this. But this is great!

  2. kento on July 25th, 2008

    Apple notebook is great! My brother even bought a Macbook Pro too for its designer needs.

  3. gam3rx on July 27th, 2008

    I love Apple Macbook Pro though…not sure bout this. but i hope this MacBook Touch or Mac Tablet will be a great product from Apple. :D

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  7. steve on August 20th, 2009

    Amazing! Apple Mac Book has already been very popular and now this technology is certainly going to rock the world.This is not only hi-tech but it is looking beautiful.

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