Apple sub-notebook ?

Posted on 16. Feb, 2007 by in Apple, Digital imaging, Hardware

Acording to Appleinsider an Apple sub-notebook may be coming soon.

A tiny sub-notebook on its way from Apple Inc. is expected to re-establish the Mac maker as a leader in the field of compact computing while drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400 along the way.

This is interesting news as is fills the gap for many pro users of application like “Aperture”. What a device to have on location if you like to travel light or need to travel light such as on remote location jobs. It seems that the engineers have found it difficult to stick an optical drive into the device. I say “fine” who needs an optical drive in a device that would be reconnected to the local network when the job is done?

One Response to “Apple sub-notebook ?”

  1. Bernard 16 October 2007 at 8:47 pm #

    A decade of technological innovation has passed since Psion, HP, Sharp, and several other firms were building robust clamshell palmtops with useable miniature keyboards (not slower-to-use thumboards), useful sized landscape format screens and battery lives of weeks or months, suited to worthwhile data entry, word processing and number crunching many hours away from any power socket. Although few had convenient data exchange with Macs.

    Then the Palm format arrived, everybody copied it, and useful portable palmtops disappeared from the shops, as the tiny square screens lacked useful display space, and (for some years at least) lack of any form of keys precluded rapid data entry. But at least Palms could swap data with Macs.

    Sure, a lighter notebook would be useful, but a really portable, Mac OS friendly palmtop, with reasonable screen and useable keyboard, that could be powered for a week by a few spare AA cells would meet the demands of a multitude of remote area workers.


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