The Apple Tablet is real???

There were lots of disappointed faces when at the recent MacWorld 08 Keynote address, when Steve Jobs presented yet another skinny notebook to the market, and not a stylish, functional, tablet PC. I was also disappointed.

It seems, though, that Asus are actually working with Apple to build one.

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Is the Tablet PC market too small for Apple to actually release this any time soon? I’d buy one, but that’s only because I have a Tablet (a Toshiba R400) and don’t ever see that I would go back to normal computing again. Tablet PCs are only worth about 1.4% of the global computer market, which is probably why Apple is standing back for the moment. But when projections in mid 2005 suggested that Tablets PCs could be worth $5 USD billion by 2009, I wonder why Apple doesn’t give it the same good ol’ try they did with their iPod and iPhone products?

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2 Responses to “The Apple Tablet is real???”

  1. Ruth Ellison Says:
    13 March, 2008 at 11:44 am

    I’m still disappointed that Apple hasn’t released a Tablet PC. I need to upgrade my current Toshiba tablet. I’m leaning towards the R400 as well as I love the sexy look of it! Now that you have been using your R400 for a while, any updated reviews about it?

  2. Gary Barber Says:
    16 March, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    I want one… having been a constant desktop tablet user, it would just be so much easier if I could work directly on the screen.

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