Tomorrow, January 27, 2010, Apple will release a tablet computer that will function on its own and/or slide “cassette like” into the back of an all-new iMac style desk computer. The tablet will hold user information and a selection of apps. When it plugs into the screen it will simply act as users settings and the real computing will be done by the chip that is on the desktop machine.
This will allow people to travel and plug their tablet into anyone’s “screen and keyboard” and have their own computer via the onboard storage and a connection to their iDisk via MobileMe. It will allow schools, hospitals, and businesses to purchase monitor/keyboard stations that can be used by anyone with a tablet. The tablet can be the textbook, the chart, the notepad, the portable work station, and when it is plugged in, it becomes a desk top computer.
Oh, and this will also work wirelessly with current and previous versions of Apple iMac computers, but not as well.
That is my guess.
[After thought: Turns out I was completely wrong. . . ]
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1 Jared // Apr 26, 2010 at 5:45 pm
I think you’re spot on. But not the iPad. It’ll be the phone…all the phones. Your basic computer will come set up with files for most commonly used software packages. But the software will be locked. When you roll up and plug in or link your phone, all of your files, all of your email login stuff, all of your bookmarks for your preferred browser, licenses for the software you’ve purchased, and portable packages of any oddball software you use will set it self up in the host and everything will configure to your liking. When you’re done, you walk away with your phone, the results of whatever you’ve done, and the host is left as it was before.
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