Flash-based Apple notebooks planned

I'd love to see a return to the 12 watt (or less!) power consumption of my 12" powerbook, compared to the (oink oink) 35 watts idle of my MBP

It's just been a matter of time before Apple produced such a device. The question in my mind has been: August or January?

so ladies and gentlemen please witness the great swammi mac faux news network at work creating yet another non-story based on speculation and absolute guesswork... the real truth is we (mfnn) have no clue about any real facts about the above article but hey, why should that matter at all, we here at mfnn reserve the right to 'make-up any faux story we like and if you don't like our 'spin', then just go spin your own bs story,, err its' sooooooeasy a 'caveman could do it'!!

up, just another soon to be deleted faux news article designed to keep your head spinning in the same direction, brother....

y u b h8'n?

My understanding of the word 'spin' (in this context here) is, when your audience catches you in a lie, you try to twist the facts in a such way that they seem truthful.

What we have here, on the other hand, is standard journalism. Reporters are trying to scoop up juicy news and publish it first. In our case, a publication called MacWorld UK claims to have talked to an anonymous source with inside knowledge of Apple's upcoming product line and this source claims that there is a product coming out in the next six months or so. No guesswork or speculation here; just a citation of an anonymous 'source' (journalist's euphemism for a company rat) giving confidential information.

What MacNN did here was quote MacWorld UK (which quoted Sequoia Capital, which quoted well-placed source). It's all neatly documented, if you just follow the link in the MacNN article.

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If there is no optical drive, then how would you install the OS and future OS X versions, and install future purchased software. Don't say d/l from the internet, because not everyone has internet, or fast enough of a connection. I suppose it would be ok, if Apple included a free external optical drive.

A small MacBook. Whoopdie doo! At least butter up the rumor up a bit while you're at it. Like...based on recent patents, it could be a small flash-memory-based tablet notebook with an optical drive that's not loaded from the side, but rather from the underside to make the device thinner. It would also make use of Apple's (arguably) biggest patent win in years...the multi-touch screen. The new subnotebook would be the first Mac model to use OS-X Leopard's unannounced extensive API for processing multi-touch input, and gone will be the days of being limited by the single mouse pointer. Multiple windows and other screen objects can be manipulated simultaneously using natural movements like squeezing fingers together, etc. You can fingerpaint using your whole hand. And because of the cursor processing limitations inherent in MS Windows (e.g., go into Task manager and notice it takes 90% of the processor time to move the mouse quickly), Windows will never be able to be modified to have this capability. (just having a little fun here...)

Saying Apple will put out a subnotebook that has no optical drive is like saying Bush will leave Iraq.

NA GA HA PEN.

Sure, someday (not "soon" -- the article's ridiculously optimistic timetable is still 9 months from now, or about the time the MacBook line would have been refreshed ANYWAY!) Apple will put out a MacBook that uses some form of flash RAM to speed up and/or save batt power. But it is NOT going without an optical or some form of HD, nor is it going to make anything smaller than 13.3" inches.

NA GA HA PEN.

since we're asking the moon, can you give it the ability to self-clean its screen.

it would be a deal breaker for me if that didn't happen, since my fingers are in a lot of pies, so to speak.

I'll gladly replace my 12 in. PB with something like this provided it has an optical drive. I played with a duo back in the day and the idea of switching out bays or having to carry around extra stuff does not appeal to me in the least bit.