What To Expect From Apple On Janurary 27th, 2010

Apple Computers

1. iSlate (pricing around $800-1000)

Important applications That the iSlate will have -

1. Music - most likely an altered version of iTunes mixed with the touch screen music app on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

2. Video - Obviously this device will host video - most likely using quicktime player

3. eReader - there is a lot of talk about the tablet being its own form of the Amazon Kindle - clearly there is a market for eBooks and apple wants in.

4. App Store - The Apple Tablet will have access to the apple app store that currently has over a billion downloaded apps

Technical Specs

Size & Processor -

- 7 inch

- 2.26GHz Intel Core Duo

L2 Cache & System Bus-

- 3mb shared

- 1066MHz

Memory & Hard Drive-

- 2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM, supports up to 8GB

- 120GB Serial ATA: 4200rpm

Slot Loading Optical Device & Expansion -

- optional external USB iSlate Super Drive

- Two USB ports (up to 480Mbps) SD card slot

Video & Display -

- Built in iSight

- 7.1 inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display with intelligent feedback with finger print resistant oleophobic coating.

Audio -

- Built in stero speakers and a built in microphone - (same as macBook Pro)

Wireless & Network -

- Built in Airport Extreme Wi-Fi (based on IEEE 802 11n draft specification) and Built in Bluetooth

- Built in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet

Operating System -

- Mac OS X Clouded Leopard v10.7 (includes all standard Mac Applcations)

2. Apple Gaming System

Apple has recently been contacting some major video game companies to come join the Apple Keynote in San Francisco on Janurary 27th. On Feburary 5th of 2009 Apple filed a gaming patten covering both hand held devices and stand alone machines that would be capable of running video games. Many people saw this as a secret step towards getting involved in the gaming industry.

There are a couple ways that apple could go with this

1. Tweak the apple T.V. into a gaming / video console

2. Create a completely new Apple Gaming system

The big deal about the gaming is not necessarily the console itself but, the iPhone will probably be incorporated in as a multi-touch controller - acting somewhat as the Wii controller does.

3. iPhone OS Update

Usually sometime around this time apple releases a update for the iPhone software so be on the look out for this as well.