Apple announced earlier today some new products for the holiday season, which we find quite interesting. Among the new products is a new wireless computer mouse, which is the world’s first mouse to use Apple’s Multi-Touch technology, which we all knows from iPhone, iPod Touch and Mac notebook trackpad. The new mouse is dubbed “Magic Mouse” which is a new name for Apple mouse devices. Magic Mouse’s predecessor, MightyMouse, which had some problems with its wheel, is pulled out of the assortment.
Magic Mouse features a seamless touch-sensitive enclosure that allows it to be a single or multi-button mouse with advanced gesture support. Using intuitive gestures, users can easily scroll through long documents, pan across large images or swipe to move forward or backward through a collection of web pages or photos. Magic Mouse works for left or right handed users and multi-button or gesture commands can be easily configured from within System Preferences.
Magic Mouse will come standard with the new iMac, and will be available at the end of October with a suggested retail price of $69 (US) and it requires Mac OS X Leopard version 10.5.8 or later.
Microsoft’s tablet differs from others in some ways, since it hasn’t got any of the usual tablet OS integrations (yeah, not even Windows), but a tailored one made only for this product (so far). The PC Tablet is foldable, just as ordinary notebooks, and features a 7-inch display and is codenamed Courier. It does feature several functions new to the market, which focuses on basically converting all kinds of office tasks to electronic processes. This includes handwriting, clip and paste, copying, address book integrations and much more, everything in smooth graphics and with enabled multi-touch. In other words, the tablet is simply an advanced electronic notebook -- just with integrated address book, internet, photo sharing, camera etc. We have embedded the following video, which previews the device:
Now though, the rumor has been revived once again. Taiwan Economic News has posted a report which says that the Apple Tablet will launch in February 2010, and that it’s going to be priced from $799 to $999. This is based on the fact that DynaPack International Technology Corp just won a contract with Apple, which makes them an exclusive provider of up to 300,000 long lasting batteries a month.
