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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem with a large iPod Touch tablet is that if it's just a bigger screen, then really, it's not going to be all that useful. Let's say the price is $1000. Would you want a tablet for that much that's fairly closed? The iPod Touch is a closed system. Apple is keeping control over it. For a tablet to be of use, it should be open like a computer is. So really, any tablet from Apple should be an OS X based tablet and fully open.
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Agreed, to a point. $1000 for a large iPod Touch, no. That same $1000 for a true OS X machine that I could dual boot with Win 7, maybe.
Time will have to tell on the possibly "closed" nature, if it truly is a large iPod Touch.
I might be construed as an Apple fanboy, simply due to owning a MacBook Pro (2006 model), a Mac Mini (2006 Intel), a 5th gen iPod, and a 2nd gen Nano. I appreciate what they each do, but I'm under no illusion that they're perfect. The iPods I leave alone. They play all my non-iTunes AAC files just fine. My MBP and Mini, I dual boot with Win 7 Ultimate, and have VMWare Fusion to run Ubuntu. Why? I realize that most of the strong video encoding tools are on Windows. Software like MeGUI, RipBot264, etc... I happen to like foobar 2000 for managing my music library, and The Godfather for audio file tagging. Playing back those same video and audio files gets handled by Plex on the Mac side of things. Each does something really well, and I go with it. Play on the strengths of one to avoid the weaknesses of another.
Thinking about it a little more, I'm not sure I'd even pay $1000 for a true OS X tablet. That's getting to 13" MacBook Pro territory. I'd say $600 - $800 could capture my attention.