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    Apple iSlate Purported Specs Surface Online

    Techtree News Staff, Jan 05, 2010 1606 hrs IST

    With 7.1-inch touchscreen, iSlate will run Mac OS X 10.7 Leopard cloud version

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Whilst we assumed that there were enough of Apple iSlate speculations, along came the images of Apple iSlate technical specifications. An anonymous tipster tipped Phone Arena with documents of 7.1-inch Apple iSlate tablet which will feature Mac OS X 10.7 Cloud Leopard. Looking too good to be real, the specifications of the Apple iSlate will surely bring many on their toes. Sadly, the product launch is set on January 26 (which is still a couple of weeks away), and the tablet will go for sale in March.

As per the specifications document, the upcoming Apple Tablet is dubbed as iSlate and will bear 7.1-inch multi-touch widescreen display with 'intelligent feedback'. A special oleophobic coating layer will be applied on the touchscreen to make fingerprints resistant. However, one thing that we found odd was the way 'Multi-touch' has been mentioned and as per our knowledge Apple spells it as 'Multi-Touch'. That's where our doubt lies on whether this document is official or not.

Further more, the document mentions hardware specifications as 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB L2 cache, upto 8GB DDR3 1066MHz, 120GB HDD 4200RPM, built-in iSight camera, built-in Projector. Other features are standard like Gigabit Ethernet, SD Card Slot, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and "AirPort Extreme" WiFi which is spelt as Airport Extreme WiFi with 802.11 draft N specifications.




The most interesting part of this document is the Operating system which is dubbed Mac OS X Clouded Leopard 10.7. We gauge that iSlate will run a stripped down or custom Leopard version that will connect most apps to a cloud server for storage, data pull, etc. Other Mac apps like iTunes, Mail, Safari, Spotlight, etc. would be included in the Mac OS X 10.7 version.

As per our opinion, the document does have certain flaws which Apple may never do but the specifications are too good to be true. However, we shall wait till January 26 for Apple to announce its 'secret' product.

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(11) Comments
Steve
,London, on Jan 05, 2010 05:18 PM
That's a load of rubbish. Never before have Apple released an entire new operating system to support new hardware. They attach too much fanfare to OS X to slip out 10.7 so soon after 10.6 just to support new hardware. If it had said 10.6.3 it would have been believable.
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McKnight
,Des Moines, on Jan 06, 2010 01:32 AM
Nobody says that OS 10.7 is an "Entirely" different operating system. Your post was pretty silly, London.
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Steve
,London, on Jan 08, 2010 04:39 AM
Firstly, my name isn't London. London is the capital city of the United Kingdom. Secondly, 10.7 is a major upgrade. Just like 10.6, 10.5. For example, 7.1 was the last version of the Mac OS to be released for a Motorola processor. The next machines released were the first PowerPC machines and the OS installed on them was 7.1.2, not 7.2. After 7.1.2 Apple went to 7.5 which was full of new features. Then they switched from using NuBus to PCI and the first set of PCI macs to be released had 7.5.2, not 7.6. This numbering process has continued through MacOS 8, Mac OS 9 and OS X. 10.7 would not be released JUST to support a new device.
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Arun
,erode, on Sep 01, 2010 01:42 PM
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MrO
,Obvioustown, on Jan 06, 2010 10:07 AM
Obvious fake is obvious.
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Conpy
,not telling, on Jan 06, 2010 03:59 AM
How could THAT hold 8 gigs of ram?
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Jacky Liang
,New York, on Jan 06, 2010 06:44 AM
I dunno, but Apple can almost do anything out of just making things tiny... They did it for the MacBook Air, so it can happen also for this unknown upcoming device.
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Nico Rosberg
,MumBHAI, on Jan 06, 2010 05:25 AM
Nice...Apple says this will kill Netbooks we'll wait & see! Your new site design is fantastic by the way. Just correct the review pane...the new reviews showing up ala Flash ad's isn't great. Give back the old style option off all new reviews listed one below the other. That's all & keep up the good work.
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Patrick
,Edmonton, on Jan 06, 2010 02:12 AM
Wow. Someone had to much time on their hands to create this. Obviously false. And I doubt Apple would have anything under a 10in screen. Annnnnnd I really don't think it's going to be called iSlate. Doesn't have any of that Apple charisma.
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Christian
,Adelaide, on Jan 05, 2010 07:25 PM
@ Steve: While I think it's rubbish too (Built-in projector?! What?!), Apple have released entire new OS's to support new hardware, such as the iPhone OS. Anyway, it's not entirely impossible or improbable for Apple, although for 10.7 to be a cloud OS, well, that doesn't sound right especially since their experiences with the iTunes/App store in their current form have been quite good. It wouldn't do well in Australia at least, where internet isn't very good and I can't imagine anyone would rely on it at home 24/7 without a foolproof system.
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Steve
,London, on Jan 05, 2010 10:38 PM
@Christian - You miss the point. iPhone OS was a requirement to run the iPhone. After all, it's not a Mac. But, for example, if we go back to the days of the Mac II's. When the IIfx came out, Apple released 6.0.7, not 6.1, to cover the requirements of the new hardware in the Mac IIfx and they have done that through history. There has been no major OS upgrade at the same time as a new hardware release *specifically* to cover the new hardware. The logistics of it are too difficult for starters. If this mythical iSlate is Mac based it won't justify the release of 10.7 to cover a touch screen interface. This is, after all, a Mac with one new feature. If it's iPhone based then again the most we'll need is 3.1.3 to cover the new screen size.
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