Doe’s imaginary Apple tablet is called the Mac Slate. “I like to think of this as a post-PC device, equal to a Mac in capability, but more like an iPhone in convenience,” he writes. “Highly portable, but still large enough to do real work.”
It has the following specs:
* 13.3 inch multitouch display
* 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 2 GB DDR3 RAM
* 120 GB SSD
* NVIDEA GeForce 9400M with 512MB VRAM
* 2 USB 3.0
* 1 FireWire 3200
* 1 Mini Display Port
* Analog and Digital Audio in and out
* iSight Camera embedded behind the display
* No optical drive (it’s time to move on)
These specs strike me as plausible, though some of the rumors say Apple’s upcoming will have a 10-inch screen, not 13.3″. Whatever Apple releases at first, subsequent devices will get bigger screens as prices come down. It’s possible to imagine a 60-inch tablet for schools and workplaces that sits flat like a table, like Microsoft’s Surface table, but then flips up vertically to act as a screen.
