Rumor: Apple To Launch 22-Inch Touch Computer in 2010

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Rumor: Apple To Launch 22-Inch Touch Computer in 2010

@Gizmodo

Could Apple unveil a touch-enabled iMac this year? While many have viewed the touch-based iPhone and highly-expected tablet as two discrete products, the Cupertino, Calif. company may produce a “22-inch touch-enabled all-in-one PC” in 2010, according to a Chinese report.

Digitimes, citing the Commercial Times, report, suggests the 22-inch desktop computer would fill a gap between Apple’s current 21.5-inch and 27-inch non-touch iMacs. HP and others already produce touch-based PCs.

According to the report, Apple has already outsourced the touch-screen panels to a Taiwan-based company, Sintek Photronic. The reported move by Apple is seen as part of the company’s evolving line of devices, embedding touchscreen technology in all of its products.

Apple is expected to announce a new product next week, possibly its highly-rumored tablet. For weeks, speculation has surrounded Jan. 27 as a date when the company will roll-out a tablet, new iPhone or iPhone OS 4.0 software. Two days prior, on Jan. 25, Apple is expected to release its financial performance for the first quarter of 2010.

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[Via Business Insider, Digitimes]

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  • juxx

    how would they be releasing 2010 1st quarter performance data on Jan 25th 2010?

  • http://www.mac-guides.com macguider

    Hm, interesting, but I think that a 22 inch Touch iMac will be a fail, the computer which will feel the gap is 24 inch iMac with i5 CPU. But that is me, I am not a fan of touch computers or tablets :)

  • strangel00p

    Large touch-screens are useful in only a few situations, like kiosks. Do you really want to be holding up your arm all the time? or moving it between screen and keyboard over and over?

    I wouldn’t take this rumor seriously.

  • Charli

    juxx. the answer is that fiscal calendars are not the same as the standard. for many companies the holiday season starts their year. so Oct-Dec would have been Fiscal Q1.

    and I don’t buy this rumor. touchscreen displays are a gimmick. not to mention that filling the gap with a 22inch when the gap starts at 21.5 doesn’t make any sense. if they had said 24 I might kind of buy it.

  • Don Pope

    Upright-touch screen surfaces are a very bad idea. They are uncomfortable to use for more than a couple of minutes and too rough for anything requiring precision. I seriously doubt Apple would do this.