[Jet Jaguar]

ping.

[4rcane]

interactive magazine or ebook is a stupid idea. If it was, then webpages would’ve done it by now.

[Swordmaker]

More confirmation of the Apple iTablet... sort of... PING!

Mac Tablet Ping!

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[valkyry1]

I think they have a killer hit on this one. Just wish I had waited another few months before I dumped that $450 into a Toshiba AMD dual core cpu 3 gig ram and windows 7 on it. I could have put it into the Apple product.

[SamAdams76]

If this product follows the typical path of the iPod and iPhone, it will sell rather slowly at first, as mainly early adopters jump in. A second generation of the product will appear in time for the Christmas season and sales will be brisk. By the middle of 2011, the third generation will be out and sales will go through the roof.

My sales prediction:

1st Gen - March-Sept 2010 - 1,585,400 units

2nd Gen - Oct 2010 to Jun 2011 - 4,447,600 units

3rd Gen - July 2011 to Jun 2012 - 15,553,200 units

[acoulterfan]

What are we talking about here on the PRICE of this thing???

[ctdonath2]

I’ve pretty much given up on my computer (only need the two-headed power-crunching behemoth at work) in favor of my iPod Touch: all email, websurfing, news reading, and even books work on it to my satisfaction save only for screen size. Give me a 7” iPod Touch and a proper (read: new) paradigm for using it and I’m so there.

Hey, it’s 2010. We’re well into the 21st Century. We’ve all had time to transition into the sci-fi future we long dreamed of. This iSlate could be the big breakthrough we need.

[TheBattman]

I have a concern that actually plays into many anti-Apple trolls....

Cost. While I am willing to spend $1200 for a Macbook will all that I want, I just can’t see spending $600 for a tablet or an Apple take on a Netbook, when one can pick up an adequate netbook, if so inclined, for $300. And for it to do enough to justify $600 to ME (obviously, I am not in Apple’s target customer for this product), it would have to essentially take the place of a MacBook for me - with the core capabilities it has.

I think I will stick with my iPhone...

[SunkenCiv]

The device is scheduled to go on sale in March

heard that too; I wonder if the late-January demo Apple plans to give will be for the jump to Verizon (or T-Mobile?) or for the tablet? If it's the jump, the tablet rumors served one purpose, which was to get that other recent rumor off the front page. Also, the rumors of a fatter version of the 3G iPhone will probably be announced, whatever else goes down?