iPad

[WiteWulf]

I'd imagine we'll get a stripped OSX if they go the intel/atom route, and iPhone if they use the OMAP from the 3GS. There are newer SOCs from TI coming "soon" which will make the 3GS look like a slug on vallium but they're not going to be ready for companies to include with their tech for some time yet - maybe 2012.

My guess is it'll almost certainly be custom silicon based around PPC architecture. Apple didn't pay $278m for PA Semi for nothing (and nothing is what we've seen from the acquisition thus far).

[adam]

$15 for an ebook looks knocking on the same price as a paper one... well a paperback anyway, still if they got away with it on itunes...

[Deckard]

That will soon drop and to get them in initially Apple will let them go with higher prices...

[Deckard]

What do you reckon it will weigh as an iPhone 3GS weighs 4.8 ounces (135 grams)

[benedictw]

I would go for 500g(17.5oz). A bit less than 4 iphones. Perhaps as low as 400g(14oz). Depends how ruggedised it is.

[Deckard]

I like the musical keyboard idea:)

[gravy]

I'd imagine we'll get a stripped OSX if they go the intel/atom route, and iPhone if they use the OMAP from the 3GS. There are newer SOCs from TI coming "soon" which will make the 3GS look like a slug on vallium but they're not going to be ready for companies to include with their tech for some time yet - maybe 2012.

My guess is it'll almost certainly be custom silicon based around PPC architecture. Apple didn't pay $278m for PA Semi for nothing (and nothing is what we've seen from the acquisition thus far).

Custom chip set based around ARM and built by Samsung apparently. More of a system on chip that new CPU

Apple aren't interested in PPC any more.

[Dio]

Now ARM are playing in the GHz space and Thumb-2 has solved the last of the code density issues I can't see anyone else getting much of a look-in in the RISC market.

[Cloudane]

Ooh, I do like that idea with the Garageband keyboard. That's going to be a nice application of the technology

[Cloudane]

I see from live.gizmodo.com that His Fryness is at the Apple event as well (pictured inside with Ive). Automatically guarantees awesomeness if both messiahs are present!

[carolen]

I see from live.gizmodo.com that His Fryness is at the Apple event as well (pictured inside with Ive). Automatically guarantees awesomeness if both messiahs are present!

Funny that.
From http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/02/ave-atque-vale/:

Well now, this is a sort of farewell. An au revoir more than an adieu but a valediction all the same. This morning I switch off most of my connections with the outside world, for I have work to do. I must deliver a book to my publishers by the end of April or my soul and testicles will be forfeit.
...
I have a single appointment in London towards the end of January and another in Barcelona a month or so later. Otherwise I shall be as one wiped from the map of human existence. This is how it must be.

From which we can conclude that SP values his testicles (and his work commitments) less than attending the latest Apple spooge-fest.

[Cloudane]

Either that or it's a lookalike, but a heck of a lookalike if so! (Especially since they've been IDing it as him there)

It'd make sense since he's a huge Appletard himself and they're probably quite keen on his social networking skillz and love for Apple. No doubt he could spare a mere day for his favourite corporation Oh and I bet he was sworn to secrecy when he posted those appointments if he was pre-arranged to be there, or if they just found him hanging around it might be in his free time

[GeeZa]

Do want.

[flookster]

<£700 and this is mine.

[Loada]

And it's....a massive iPhone. No bad thing. Wonder if you'll be able to get massive silicon skins for it?