New MacBook Air
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Digitimes reports: Apple readies 11.6-inch MacBook Air and new iPod touch.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if this new version of the MacBook Air was an iPad with a folding keyboard. Run iOS and put a multi-touch screen on it and lose the trackpad and you have it. Sell it for under $1000.
Better yet, allow it to run both Mac OS and iOS in spaces.
Now that’s something I’d love.
Actually, more seriously, it’ll no doubt be a bow to netbooks and will run various applications off the cloud.
This article supports at least part of my thesis that the MacBook Air is moving in the iPad direction: Rumor: Petite Macbook to Rival iPad.
Here’s some more speculation on iOS being combined with Mac OS in various pieces of hardware: Pad inside iMac and MabBook