That’s according to rabid Apple fansites spanning the interweb. They all seem to think we’ll get our hands on an ultra-portable from the Mac makers of Cupertino at some point next year.
According to popular conjecture, the fat free portable will use flash memory to start up in a jiffy, and run a cut down version of Apple’s OS X.
We can see the appeal of a pint-sized Mac portable, possibly in tablet form. Its latest laptopsare a little on the large side, and Apple’s decision to discontinue the 12-inch PowerBook left swathes of notebook fans in mourning.
Still, we have to wonder whether Apple would be quick to jump into the UMPC pool. With relatively few exceptions, current ultra-portables leave a lot to be desired.
T3 – Apple prepping micro Mac portable?
That’s according to rabid Apple fansites spanning the interweb. They all seem to think we’ll get our hands on an ultra-portable from the Mac makers of Cupertino at some point next year.
According to popular conjecture, the fat free portable will use flash memory to start up in a jiffy, and run a cut down version of Apple’s OS X.
We can see the appeal of a pint-sized Mac portable, possibly in tablet form. Its latest laptopsare a little on the large side, and Apple’s decision to discontinue the 12-inch PowerBook left swathes of notebook fans in mourning.
Still, we have to wonder whether Apple would be quick to jump into the UMPC pool. With relatively few exceptions, current ultra-portables leave a lot to be desired.
