Apple flavoured tablet?

I’ve blogged previously on my search for the ultimate tablet PC. I was hoping that, in its typical design brilliance, that Apple would come up with something better than what I’ve seen so far — and soon.

There have been a few nice prototype pics out there, ones with wireless ultra flat keyboards and the like. But these, of course, are pure speculation.

Unfortunately, it seems that while an Apple tablet may indeed be in the wind, but of the micro variety, like the Samsung Q1.

Richard Koman of newsfactor.com discovered an Apple rumour site claiming that:

“the Apple tablet has been under development for the past 18 months. Although engineers had been pulled off the project to work on the iPhone, they have now returned full-force to developing a handheld computer — a machine would be one and a half times the size of an iPhone, with a 720 x 480 display that covers almost the entire surface of the device. The device would leverage multitouch features for drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste”

Sources expected Jobs to announce the device at Macworld in January with availability in mid-2008.

I guess I need to look elsewhere now for my magic all-conquering tablet PC.

M