The TabletMac Is Here

by Hadley Stern Jun 17, 2005

One very smart person over at TablePCBuzz has figured out how to run Apple’s developer version of MacIntel on his tablet. He even has some fun with inkwell. Sign of things to come?

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  • I would be impressed with a TabletMac… but the thread has barely been started and some thinking that it is probably a hoax. No evidence has been submitted.

    Nathan had this to say on Jun 17, 2005 Posts: 219

  • More intriguing to me about this is that he is running OSX on a non-Mac PC.  Once the Macintels come out, it’s only a matter of time before someone gets it running on non-Mac hardware.  I don’t see anyway for Mac to stop this from happening.

    Beeblebrox had this to say on Jun 17, 2005 Posts: 2220

  • Edit:  I mean “Apple to stop this from happening.”

    Beeblebrox had this to say on Jun 17, 2005 Posts: 2220

  • I’m sure that this is a BIG reason for the switch to Intel.  As Hadley suggested on the Podcast, the main reason is probably laptops.  I’d say that includes tablet Macs. I know they could have put out a G4 but they would have copped soooo much flak from the zealots and jeers from the rest. It would have been a PR disaster.

    It must have been infuriating Steve no end that he couldn’t release a Tablet Mac. I’ll bet anything we’ll see one in the next 12 mths on x86. Maybe SF2006?

    Chris Howard had this to say on Jun 17, 2005 Posts: 1209

  • Strangely enough there is a company called Averatec selling Windows-based tablets based on AMD Athlon-M’s for pretty cheap, and at least a few stores here around Seattle are sold out of them everytime they get a new shipment.  I had one and took it back because it was dead slow - way too slow to use, my iBook runs circles around it.  So what’s the difference? Why does a Mac Tablet require greater than G4?  I still think that the delay is in refining the interface.  Windows Tablet is constantly improving, sure, but it still remains almost a Beta quality piece of software and hardly what I’d call stable.

    Wouldn’t the ultimate tablet, should it happen to come out tomorrow hypothetically, be not only based on OS X - but also about 3.5lbs or less in weight?  None of the tablet PC’s I’ve played with are comfortable enough to use in a “clipboard” type configuration - with one arm/hand holding and the other “writing”, and most of these designs are based on the state-of-the-art in Intel Centrino technology.  I have a Dell 700m that, if convertable of tablet, weighs just little enough to work - but again, it’s a 1.6GHz centrino-based intel and for most tasks just barely chugs along.

    dickrichards2000 had this to say on Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 112
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