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Speculation About An Apple Tablet

Posted by michael on from the lifeblood-of-the-apple-world dept.

worm eater writes "The Register reports that Apple has filed for a European design trademark on a tablet computer. El Reg speculates that this could may make Apple Expo Paris more exciting that previously thought. Could this be the tech that finally brings the Mac desktop, iPod, and AirPort Express (and let's not forget the iPhone) together into the media household of The Future? (Of course, we've heard speculation about this before.)"

3 of 350 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Wasn't that called the Newton? by anjrober · · Score: 0, Troll

    you aren't too bright are you?

    BUllSHit

  2. Apple by lJlolel · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple is known for its spectacularly chic designs and ease of use. No doubt they will place all of their impressive resources on making an original tablet that will set the future standard.

  3. Re:Estimated cost? by andreyw · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ok how the hell is this insightful?

    You can take your 386 brick and seriously ram it up your arse - I want a piece of equipment that is up-to-date and can run real operating systems, not sexed-up DOS-shells. I want to be able to use normal USB peripherals. I want to have decent processing power and decent amount of disk and random-access memory. Most people do too. By "tablet", they do NOT visualize an antiquated piece of crap that is less powerful than a Palm Pilot.

    So yeah - tablets are still overpriced and thus a niche market.

    Goddamnit.