No rumors here. This is what has been published about new Apple computer products.
The Register, a European Computer Site, is reporting that Apple has filed for a European design trademark which may be for some kind of handheld computer.
The filing was made in May but only announced this week. It covers a “handheld computer” and contains sketches of what looks like an iBook screen minus the body of the computer.
Additonally, the Taiwanese company, Quanta claimed last year that they had been hired by Apple to build what was dubbed a “wireless display”.
We don’t think this is a PDA. Steve Jobs has downplayed Apple coming out with a PDA device, even though he said that they had built one but cut it from production.
Steve also discouraged the idea of a video player type of device. Yet, given his committment to the Mac as a digital hub for home entertainment, we think there may be more features for this in Apple’s new iMac, soon to be announced at the end of the month.
Back in November 2003, eWeek published a hunch that Apple has a device that resembles a large iPod with an 8inch diagonal screen, with no keyboard, but with a USB and FireWire port, which runs Mac OS X.
But will this be part of the new iMac coming out in a few weeks?
This is a logical extension of what Apple has been doing with iTunes and AirPort Express. While its mini wireless access point is good for streaming audio from a host Mac to a hi-fi, it lacks a control unit. Could this be a feature of the new iMac?
Indeed, the upcoming new iMac is said to sport an all-in-one design with the system board, hard drive etc. mounted on the back of the monitor LCD. Only the suggested 17in and 20in displays indicate that the new machine isn’t as portable as this new portable wireless monitor device (said, eWeek).
(Or, as we said last week, this is the monitor of the new wireless iMac.)
Or perhaps, this new device will be an iMac Jr.
August’s Apple Expo Paris may prove very exciting.
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