Announcement in September, launch in November claim rumours Reports claim that unnamed industry analysts have "seen first-hand" a prototype of a new Apple tablet which, among other things, is said to focus heavily on gaming capability.... read more
It'll need to be good at that price. _________________ That's not even a come-back Velocitar, that's just you making a token show of impotent defiance after being humiliated yet again. Don't you get tired of this, day after day?
Blimey, the PSP Go seems like a give-away compared to the price of the Apple doodah! _________________ PSN ID: MarkyUK
360 ID: BobozeTheBear
I love Mary Hinge.
I was going to say I hope its not another overpriced Apple product, but then I saw the price tag. Ouch. It better have some good capabilities for that price, because you can get a pretty powerful gaming laptop for that price with enough room to spare for an Xbox. _________________ GameShard - fragments of gaming
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PSN: STARS_Splinter - CP: WipEout HD Fury
Wii: CP: EA Sports Active
PC: LOTRO, EndWar
DS: Final Fantasy IV
PSP: Brave Story
if its anything like the I phone an apple gaming platform would be worse for shovelware and crap than both the ds and wii combined. It'll just be chesp rubbish and bad gimmicks all on your over priced load of crap. from apple.
I think i'll pass. _________________ The only thing we know is that we know nothing.
I think I will hold of judgement until it is released but if it costs $700-$800, you just know it is going to cost at least £600 over here.
Also, yeah. It is just going to have loads of utter crap on it, and I doubt it will be taken seriously as a gaming console. they do have to get it right though as, once the Mac enthsiasts have all bought one, it could still collapse (just like apple tv).
How much? That's way to expensive for a gadget fan like me. Think I'll stick to proper consoles, ta. Besides, the market struggles with two very similar consoles in the PS3 and 360 already, so how will this fare? Apple presents the new Neo-Geo: too expensive for anyone but those rich enough to not care.
the supposed product is Apple's version of a netbook with a 10" screen. no physical keyboard so think a bigger version of the iphone/ipod touch. it will be a normal mac as well as being geared towards games (through touch controls i'm guessing). cvg are just over egging the pudding in this respect. but as people have already said it will connect to the app store and it will have a gargantuan amount of crap stuff available for you to download.
it will also hook up to your other mac devices in the house and if you've got half a brain it'll connect to a windows pc as well and of course any NAS drive's you may have. It's not cheap but it sounds pretty cool to me.
News of this has been all over ZD net for a while amongst other places, just in case you think i'm making this up. _________________ Sweet Bobby
This was inevitable, Ive always thought that Apple would enter the console race at some point.
I don't think they are specifically marketing this as a games console, it will be a much more generic device. Obviously this is a gaming site, so CVG are reporting on it from a gaming perspective. _________________ ---! Get Dropbox !---
“ladies and gentlemen, first there was the clit-pod, then came the clit-phone……….. ladies and gentlemen I present the latest fashion accessory for all the sheep, the apple clit console!!!!”
(clit= every c*nt has one) _________________ all fanboys are c**ts, (you dicks know who you are).
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It's not a bloody 'games machine'. There's more chance of it running Windows than it being specifically designed for games. What it will be (if it exists at all) is basically a scaled up iPod Touch - possibly with 3g data connection but very unlikely to have iPhone style voice functionality. Given it will have access to the App Store it will be able to download and play the games on there - although I'm not sure how well games designed for a (what?) 480*320 3 inch screen are going to look scaled up to 10" wide.
It's a computer. Therefore you can play games on it. That doesn't make it a 'games machine' any more than the fact I put my shopping in the boot makes my car a tractor.
Despite the cost, despite the fact that the software will probably consist entirely of shovelware, and despite the fact there's already beter alternatives available, people will buy it in droves. Why? Because it's an Apple product, and some people just can't be helped.
I hear it's just going to run the iphone version of the OS and not regular OSX.
I used to be a massive supporter of Apple, especially being in the industry I'm in, but after some recent customer service 'issues' Apple can GTF! _________________ GT/PSN: FurryGreenMnstr
Wii code: I'll check it at some point, I swear.
Well technically speaking this would be the second attempt at entering into the console arena after the first effort the Apple Pippin in 1995/6. That was over priced and promised to do lots of things but gaming was its main use. It flopped big time, and if there is any truth in a Apple console at that price it could all be history repeating its self.
“ladies and gentlemen, first there was the clit-pod, then came the clit-phone……….. ladies and gentlemen I present the latest fashion accessory for all the sheep, the apple clit console!!!!”
(clit= every c*nt has one)
I'm gonna go crazy and take I wild stab in the dark, but I'm guessing your not an Apple fan???? (the company not the fruit, or maybe not the fruit aswell) Am I right or am I right (bloody father in law used to say that, I think he just liked to weight the argument in his favour)
It's amazing how dramatic kids get about a manufacturer who undoubtly doesn't make any products within their budget, or to suit their needs.
I could equally dramatic and immature about hundreds of manufacturers I'm not interested in, but you know what, it would be pointless, and ultimately who cares! As a designer I use a Mac, and as a gamer I use a 360. I don't use any other products from Apple or Microsoft, but I'm not bitter about them releasing other products. It seems these days everyone's desperate to change their phones every year, and have a collection of gadgets that play games or music, I don't need these products to fulfill my life. But I'm not going call those that purchase such goods any particular names, or make up ridiculous predictions about new products. Clearly every day we all prove how little interest we have in thousands of products we don't purchase. I find it very odd that there are those willing to concentrate and post comments about products they know nothing about and would never buy.
People need to grow up a little. If a product isn't for you, don't go all Playstation-fanboy, instead concentrate on what you like or want, not what you 'hate'! People are interested in thoughts or intelligent opinions, not brainless, pathetic, unwarranted, uninformed and immature dislikes.
I think that sums the company and their products up rather nicely.
I was the same, nearly everybody I knew who bought Macs just wouldn't shut up about them and it wasn't about the differences that make them a more viable purchase for certain people - it was the the gimmicks! And the white headphone on ipods I don't care for either. Here Mr Mugger, you can be 99% sure there's something worth nicking in my pocket!
But I got an iphone when my contract came up and I have no complaints at all - in fact there was nothing anywhere near on par with it as a mobile phone for surfing etc when I got it. I just hate itunes as a piece of software (quite possibly set in my ways) and the whole mp3 download thing in general.
But the article says its a tablet. Never says its a console and Apple have been talking about entering the netbook market for a while.
I'm sitting in the garden typing this on a 10.2" asus 1000he, battery lasts all day (if I treat it right!), runs XP, surfs fine, plays films, runs MAME, GENS etc, word processing etc and it cost £300. I'm sure it's not as powerful as this mac thingy but it does the job!! In fact I hardly ever use my quad core pc anymore, so the monitor has come downstairs and is attached to the 360!
I think that sums the company and their products up rather nicely.
I was the same, nearly everybody I knew who bought Macs just wouldn't shut up about them and it wasn't about the differences that make them a more viable purchase for certain people - it was the the gimmicks! And the white headphone on ipods I don't care for either. Here Mr Mugger, you can be 99% sure there's something worth nicking in my pocket!
But I got an iphone when my contract came up and I have no complaints at all - in fact there was nothing anywhere near on par with it as a mobile phone for surfing etc when I got it. I just hate itunes as a piece of software (quite possibly set in my ways) and the whole mp3 download thing in general.
But the article says its a tablet. Never says its a console and Apple have been talking about entering the netbook market for a while.
I'm sitting in the garden typing this on a 10.2" asus 1000he, battery lasts all day (if I treat it right!), runs XP, surfs fine, plays films, runs MAME, GENS etc, word processing etc and it cost £300. I'm sure it's not as powerful as this mac thingy but it does the job!! In fact I hardly ever use my quad core pc anymore, so the monitor has come downstairs and is attached to the 360!
But will it have cut, copy and paste or will that have to wait for an update? I couldn't believe it when I saw apple are running TV adverts about copy/paste on the iPhone, it is a basic feature that should have been there from the start, lots of other phones have had it for years and they talk about it like it is the holy grail.
Nah, all apple products look pretty but they are overpriced and lacking basic features. _________________ My Blog
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“ladies and gentlemen, first there was the clit-pod, then came the clit-phone……….. ladies and gentlemen I present the latest fashion accessory for all the sheep, the apple clit console!!!!”
(clit= every c*nt has one)
I'm gonna go crazy and take I wild stab in the dark, but I'm guessing your not an Apple fan???? (the company not the fruit, or maybe not the fruit aswell) Am I right or am I right (bloody father in law used to say that, I think he just liked to weight the argument in his favour)
i actually like the mac, the iphone crowd etc just irritate me cos the people that buy it do so mostly as a fashion accesory or are easily sold on silly apps like lightsabers or turning the phone into a shotgun, the apps that are useful on the iphone are already done better on other smartphones.... _________________ all fanboys are c**ts, (you dicks know who you are).
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360 Gamertag : Bacon Roll
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Haven't there been rumours of a new Apple gaming device for years? There are forums dated 2004 that discuss this sort of stuff.
Some Apple products are good, others aren't. The computers are nice, but I dislike the OS on them and they are very expensive - you can get a Windows PC or laptop with similar specs much cheaper. I'm not big on iPods either. I don't think that apps are necessary and I think that sound quality is more important, something that I found them to be lacking in. Video quality on them is good, especially on the iTouch/iPhone, but you can get better screens than them as well. I believe that iPods of all varieties are overpriced and overrated and I personally went with a Walkman X-Series and a cheap £30 1GB Walkman B-Series (for when I know I have to leave it unattended), the X-Series has some of the best sound/video quality that I have ever seen and even the cheap B-Series knocks the socks off all the iPods in terms of sound quality, even though it has no video player.
I also agree that apps like the lightsaber app and shotgun app are silly, although I do know people that did buy it for music for the storage capacity. _________________ "Our world cannot be viewed through the glasses of common sense" - Masato Arai.
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