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Nvidia CEO loves Apple, possesses mysterious alien device

Talk about burying the lead -- Shufflegazine did a piece on Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Hwang during a visit to Dubai recently, in which he talks about how much he and his family love their Macs, and Apple's machines add value, and in his house it's just "Mac, Mac, Mac," and OH MY GOD, what is that SITTING ON THE TABLE in front of him? OK, it's probably not definitely not an Apple tablet (yet), as there's no clear Apple logo on it, but man that's a nice looking tablet device, and even Engadget says they have no idea what it is.

The thing is, this picture just appeared with Shufflegazine's piece, and while Hwang did go on and on about how much he loves Apple stuff (and yes, the two companies have a long history of sharing some hardware), there's not word one about that tablet or anything like it in the piece, no hint of any other hardware or partnership announcement. It could be a prototype, it could be another tablet we're just not recognizing, or yes, Hwang could have just thrown it down on the table during the interview, and Shufflegazine could have just completely missed it. [They didn't. -Ed.]

Though if that last one is true, we have no idea how it happened. How do you cover Apple and their gadgets and avoid being drawn to that tablet. It's so... thin and well-designed. We'll be honest, if we were in the room, we might have licked it then and there to claim it as our own.

Thanks to Nemanja for the tip.

Talk about burying the lead -- Shufflegazine did a piece on Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Hwang during a visit to Dubai recently, in which he talks...
 

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Kendall Tawes

I own one and it's most certainly not. It's wide instead of tall. Perhaps that might be how a 3GS would look with its side to a black hole as it would be stretched as the gravity would increase from one side to the other. Though if you were that far into a black hole you would be already dead.

Wait... I was talking about a possible Apple tablet right?

November 11 2009 at 11:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Geoff Oliver

It looks like it's running the pipes screensaver from Windows. Anyone else see that?

November 10 2009 at 9:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
macuser

If Apple made this the screen would look like a mirror. Plus it is really big, but I like it. I hope Apple makes the iTablet run OS X and not iPhone software.

November 10 2009 at 4:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Janichsan

I just wanted to say something along the line of "He's the CEO of frigging Nvidia. He's prone to have some prototype or the other around."

Obviously, I had the right idea.

November 10 2009 at 3:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mak

It looks somewhat like a modbook pro.
http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbookpro
My wife's had an apple tablet (just the modbook, not pro) for almost a year now and it's pretty awesome.

November 10 2009 at 3:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt

I don't think it's a Mac Table. I think it's running the old Pipes 3D screen saver if you look at the screen. Of course it could be running a virtual with Windows in full screen mode.

November 10 2009 at 2:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
high fivers

Notice the update on the original article:

Update: Through other people present at the event who played with the tablet a bit (I didn’t) I’ve been told it’s a Tegra based tablet that NVIDIA have developed to show off to various companies. This one was made for T-Mobile and carried their logo.

November 10 2009 at 1:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marc Dennert

The square iPod Nano? Or the iMac on the cover of Times magazine. Just to name a few off the top of my head.

November 10 2009 at 12:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steven Fowler

Other people seem to have said this, but here goes:

I hope this isn't an Apple product, or if it is I hope it is either in the rough prototype stage or heavily disguised. For starters, PC makers are the ones who love glowing rings around buttons, and as much as Apple's lineup looks like it was designed by Toshiba in 2004, they haven't adopted that feature yet. Second, that "home button" looks an awful lot like a BlackBerry-esque scroll ball, and if the operating system is as good as we have come to expect from Apple, there shouldn't be any reason for one of those. And finally, it just doesn't fit with Apple's style. Even when Apple computers were made of cheap plastic back in the 1990s, they didn't settle for the cheap plastic look (the PowerBook 500 is still one of the best looking laptops of all time), so why would they settle now? To me this just looks like a well designed tablet by a generic NetBook manufacturer, and this wouldn't be the first time a company made an Apple "clone" of something they hadn't made yet (the Nintendo DS Lite, for example). Honestly I hope this isn't an Apple tablet, at least not the final design, because it looks too cheap and generic to be Apple (as for the Apple logo argument, almost all Apple products have the logo on the back {iPhone, iPod, MacBook, etc}). That being said, if Apple does come out with something like this, with better styling and a solid, intuitive operating system, I might have to start selling my organs.

November 10 2009 at 11:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
phunkidude

If you read the article it says what it is. It's an Nvidia product.

November 10 2009 at 11:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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