Cult Readers Respond with Apple Netbook Mock-Ups

Lonnie Lazar ()

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Sentiment seems about 8:1 against young German artist Darakas’ vision for the Apple touchscreen netbook rumored to be headed to market in the 2nd half of this year.

We asked Cult of Mac readers to step up up with their own renderings and so far we’ve got a sleek looking tablet idea from reader Bobbertson, above, and another from reader Sean, below.

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Sean imagines a device containing a 7” Multi-touch glass screen with a black frame and chrome bezel around the screen. Something more like an enlarged iPod Touch rather than a ‘tablet’, which usually contains a larger screen.

It would have a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Processor, 512MB – 1GB of RAM, 64GB flash memory, bluetooth, WiFi, and a cut down version of OS X Leopard or ‘Snow Leopard’ to fit the device.

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Any takers?

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  • http://www.youtube.com/punkdoggy800 sean m

    Haha, “we told you we weren’t making a netbook.”

    Love the first side shot, looks great except it’d probably only have one USB port.

    That’d be awesme if it have a stylus for photoshop.

    And thanks for featuring mine ;-)

    Great concepts

  • http://www.john-fuller.com John

    Woo! Sign me up..

    Also, in the first concept, Can you seriously run Motion on it?!

  • http://www.dailyhack.net Charlie Flowers

    Oh man that’s sexy…I want one! :D

  • http://www.techypunky.com Adrian

    wow. this is cool. i hope that apple will release a netbook and something like in the picture.

  • Jongleur

    I’d buy it in a snap! – but in the meantime I’ll just have to make do with my HackBook nano.

  • Roy

    I would buy Sean’s version in a shot, whatever the price. I love the iPod Touch, but I want it just a little bigger, about the size of a small paper-back book. At that size, it would be perfect for surfing and reading and watching; and, I suspect, most of my problems with the virtual keyboard would go away.

    Oh, and Steve, please give it a camera, too. Even a crappy one would do.

  • http://www.cyclelogicpress.com Partners in Grime

    Sign me up for a couple!

  • John

    Let me start a new rumor.

    Apple’s new TouchBook will have a 9 inch screen with a unique roll-up hard cover. The TouchBook can be put in a backpack or purse with no scratching or dirt problems on the screen. It will have a new set of touch capabilities and a new responsive software keyboard. As well, it will, using wireless technology, automatically access files on other authorized Mac desktops so you can access info on your main machine.

  • http://iphone-game-reviews.com Vikram @ iPhone Game Reviews

    Why shouldn’t random people submit their ideas to Apple? Cult readers are just as creative as Apple employees and Steve Jobs!

  • Trakix

    I would buy the “MacTouch” in a second. The other more standard tablet-y version would be fine, but a larger form iPod Touch would be my IDEAL 2nd computer. Gimme one usb port, FULL bluetooth capabilities, and a camera on both sides (one for photos, one for vid conferencing) and I’d be set for life.

  • Dude

    Very nice mockup. I want one. 10″ with a nice ARM Cortex and a full Snow Leopard would be my dream specs.

  • vance

    Nice ideas, for sure. But, if it’s in the high-end netbook price range, it’ll need a physical keyboard before it gets my money. I need to type emails/posts/etc longer than this comment.

  • Sabon

    “Sean imagines a device containing a 7″ Multi-touch glass screen with a black frame and chrome bezel around the screen. Something more like an enlarged iPod Touch rather than a ‘tablet’, which usually contains a larger screen.”

    This is a lot more likely than the previous Mac tablet you had on this website. The previous one is so PC like. This is Apple like.

  • CuX

    Here you go:

    Next Apple moves will be Books and Games…
    http://spidouz.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/next-apple-moves-will-be-books-and-games

    With full Mac OS X inside (not just the limited OS X) and VGA video-out port for wired Keynote and PowerPoint presentations on videoprojectors.

    We need thousands for our University.

  • http://richarddas.com rdas7

    To be more realistic, it should be running iPhone 3.0, rather than Mac OS X 10.5

  • CuX

    rdas7,

    The current iPhone and iPod touch have a serious limitation: OS X, that does not allw to run NATIVE Keynote and PowerPoint presentations. See the link on my post above.