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Dec 23, 08 - 01:52 pm Comment from: Asmodeus

As long as it's not tied to a specific provider, I'm all over this.

the rumor description sounds exactly like the iPod Touch, with one addition: display out.

so, either it's not imaginative enough...or so simple it just might work!

so so so dumb, oh lets create or whole new revolutionary platform then through away the whole 1 size / 1 app store / 1 dev environment, a smaller touch screen would also be awful, people complain about the keyboard now imagine a nano one, youd be an idiot to believe this.

Dec 23, 08 - 02:10 pm Comment from: Cubert

Uhhh....no.

Idiot.

are always planting this crap

headline:no iphone nano for 79 dollars as we thought here on cnbc ... now a shot of erin burnetts underpants

Dec 23, 08 - 02:28 pm Comment from: hank_e

i just remembered a picture from a patent with a round cornered rectagonal shape being inserted into an imac looking device...anyway after reading the article i looked over at my ipod touch and asked in a real cute voice that you reserve fer pets and babies. and i asked it picking it up in the silhouette of my macbook it said yes and it really seems possible to imagine a tiny device running a keyboard and monitor.....

A new Mini? Long overdue, so quite credible. An iPhone Nano? Not a chance. It would have to lose a lot of functionality in that smaller screen. (As one who owns a Touch 2, it's size is "just right".) And why give up 3G when one has made such a big deal about it?

Harumph... It's probably glossy...

Dec 23, 08 - 02:50 pm Comment from: hank_e

also there are so many tasks that somewhat relish opportunizing my touch over my macbook(sorry babes.)

they have a real sibling rivalry goin on...

I'll watch Erin Burnett anytime.

Dec 23, 08 - 03:14 pm Comment from: John Gee

Yeah, no.

Wow. Speculating IS an art, I guess.

Dec 23, 08 - 03:14 pm Comment from: alansky

Blah blah BLAH blah blah...

Stupid stupid stupid.

His initial arguments as to why the rumoured device is *not* an iPhone nano are full of crap and based on nothing. Then he goes on to speculate about a "Mac nano" based on the same pile of crap.

There is a "Mac nano" coming, it's called the "Mac mini" though. there is no need to speculate about a new product at all. We all know the Mac mini is being refreshed in January, we all know it's a substantial re-design. These rumours have been all but confirmed for months and months now.

A Mac mini with a screen (his "Mac nano"), would be a completely different product and take sales *away* from the current mini if it had any reason to exist at all.

If he's talking about a tablet, then there is no reason to include the Mac mini in the equation at all. To repeat, ... these are completely separate product categories.

I'd buy it instantly. iPhone 3G is too big + I don't need 90% of the features.
I only need the ability to call, text, a bit of music and a basic calendar.
I don't need a big screen for that, neither 3G, nor web browsing, etc, that's too much...
I want a device that fits my pocket, a simple phone!!! The Nano makes sense.

My mistake... I thought I was on the iPhone Nano discussion...
Mac Nano??? It would be a refreshed Mac mini + screen...

Mac Nano that plugs into the iPhone for Display. With external bluetooth keyboard and mouse. You heard it here first! Trust me.

Dec 23, 08 - 03:54 pm Comment from: MacAngus

I'm gonna go ahead and guess the writer meant "are they one and the same" when he wrote "one in the same." Unless that's just his "pointed" view...

Geez, this guy is an idiot.

How can you tell from the case design that it wouldn't have 3G? Still looking for a dockable tablet type device that slides into an iMac/Cinema display hybrid.

THIS Erin Burnett ?

I second that !

No. It's not true. Why would a Mac be shaped like that? No.

Mac Nano.......ANDD the iphone nano.....the SAME DEVICE?!
What the hell is he talking about?! =/

Dec 24, 08 - 02:44 pm Comment from: Macintosher

I coined the name Mac nano. And thus copyright laws mean that they couldn't use it. So tough, speculators.

The iPhone nano makes sense. smaller size and knocking off the 3G makes it more approachable for the average consumer.
this should in theory allow apple to circumvent AT&T;and sell it to all carriers.


the mac nano is hopefully an actual update of the mac mini.

Dec 25, 08 - 05:46 pm Comment from: toby

I would be VERY interested in a Mac Mini with no optical drive and a fairly large SSD (100 to 200 GIGs).

With memory chips, I hardly EVER use CDs or DVDs anymore.


And what program can you not buy online? And if you totally need one, you can always get a kick-ass super fast external one (which is usually the best thing to do, anyways, if you use an optical drive a lot).


BUT (and this is a big but), they need to dramatically increase the amount of RAM it can hold.

At least 4 gigs of RAM. Minimum.