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Apple Tablet rumours have been making rounds for a really long time now. However, these rumours seem to be heading toward reality. There are reports that three Taiwanese companies – Foxconn, Wintek and Dynapack have been given orders for components for the much awaited Apple Touchscreen Tablet. If these reports are genuine, Foxconn will be the tablet manufacturer and Wintek will me making the touchscreen.
The Apple tablet is expected to sport a 9.7” touchscreen. It is expected to start selling from October 2009 for a price of $800. Apple seems to want to cater to the high-end users, without setting competition to the affordable netbooks from Acer, Asus and other companies. No information has been received yet about whether this tablet PC will use the OS X or a modified version of the iPhone OS 3.0. A recent report states that while the iPhone handset offers multi-touch capability with 2 fingers, the Apple tablet is expected to accept touches from all 10 fingers. This should suit many of the quick games if true.
MacRumours.com, which closely follow Apple’s activities have a translated version of a Mandarin report from a Chinese news site which mentions about the Apple Touchscreen Netbook. Another report some time back from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster also predicts that this Apple tablet will most probably make its way to the market only during the first half of 2010.
Leaving all predictions and expectations aside, the question now that arises is whether the new tablet will be a hit like the MacBooks or the iPhone 3G? It can be a good amount of work for all the brain cells, pondering on whether it is sensible to buy the Apple Touchscreen Tablet at $800, when we have other touchscreen netbooks like Asus EEE PC T91 and Gigabyte M912X, which are cheaper and offer both laptop as well as tablet PC usage.
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