The MacView: An incredibly well-done concept tablet

A slider? Gimme a freakin' break.

This is crap but no one seems to realize that. How are you guys supposed to read and write at the same time? Obviously ergonomy-wise is impossible to use. It looks like a freaking crippled laptop with no hinges. WTF? Am I the only one to notices that?

Apple is never going to put a sliding mechanism in its tablet. Sliding keyboards are mechanical and they can break, therefor very inferior compared to a digital keyboard. Apple knows this (I hope)

Considering that Apple thinks outside the box (while there was leaked info, the iPhone wasn't really expected to be a black multitouch slab), this seems like something Apple may actually release.

This was the designers view on what he would like to have - not what Apple will announce (or not) on the 27th.

Hmm- this would be fine for an Android Phone or something from HTC but c'mon Apple would never ever release a slider. Too many buttons, too mechanically complex, too thick. It's so big it begs the question- why not just get a MacBook Air and be done with it. Apple's design philosophy is elegance through simplicity not 007 James Bond.

I'm not sure I'm feeling the slider aspect of it, and carbon fiber also doesn't really hold up to repeated "friction" against either itself or other materials so it WILL wear.

I would prefer aluminum and a graphite like material for sliding...

http://www.islateforum.net

I had already decided that the “iSlate” that Apple is releasing is going to be way to expensive, if they add in a big Apple tax, & as they almost always hold back features on their first release I thought no way is it going to be something worth the projected $899 to $999 price tag. But, if this was released today I, for the first time in my life, would be in line the night before to buy one & even pay the same retail price as a macbook.
I just hope that someone releases this & uses hardware that Leopard or Snow Leopard likes. It definitely deserves a better OS than Windows 7 or Vista.
~Keeping my fingers Crossed~

Classic mistake…putting an unmodified (or almost unmodified) OSX on a tablet.

That is Microsoft's mistake, and Apple won't make the same one.

The biggest mistake that the concept developers are making is the idea that Apple's unannounced tablet computer will sport an OS that is the same as the one that ships with every Mac. I don't think that the desktop version of Mac OS X is appropriate. Microsoft has been pushing tablet PCs for a long time now. Most of them have been running a full fledged version of Windows with extra software added to support the tablet hardware. Look how well those have sold. I don't think that Apple will make the same mistake. I think that the tablet computer from Apple will use a new variant of the version of OS X that runs on the iPhone. I guess we'll find out for sure this week.