Apple Tablet Gossip...the latest...

Posted on Thursday, January 7, 2010
Filed under Apple, Computers

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5434566/the-exhaustive-guide-to-apple-tablet-rumors?skyline=true&s=x

Ah, the Apple Tablet, probably the most looked-forward-to, sought-after, and mysterious piece of technology around. Will it be little more than an IPhone? Will it be another revolutionary piece of technology we have come to expect from Apple as of late? Who knows...well some people think they may know, and after researching some of the lastest gossip...I would like to share my thoughts...

Keep in mind these are all just guesstimates made by an Apple fan...I in no way take responsibility for these answers and your potential excitement...

What will it be called?

ISlate - The Mechanical Toaster predicts this name of all names, based on the evidence presented at by the peeps at Gizmodo and Macrumors. The image at the left shows Apple's registration for the domain islate.com back in 2007.

It seems only fitting given the whole "i" theme.

There have also been an abundance of rumours based on other "slate" deviations, but the most prevalent appears to be "Islate" - at least it has the most buzz...

What are the specs?

The boys over at islate.org seem to have picked up the following numbers floating around the world wide web...

2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB shared L2 cache and 1066MHz system bus

2GB of RAM, but will support up to 8GB

120GB SATA hard drive 4200RPM

Sure it may not seem that impressive if you have a choice between an IMac and these specs, but compare it to a Netbook, and you have a serious competitor - usually high-end netbooks sport the following specs:

•Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz

•1GB DDR2

•160GB HDD

Throw in 8 GB of ram on that ISlate, and you have an incredibly fast little machine...

What are the important dates?

Announcement Date:

Jan. 27

Let me remind you that everything on this post is complete GOSSIP - but it is fun to speculate. I say Jan 27 because of the following tidbits of info from Gizmodo -

"The Financial Times said two days ago that Apple is expected "make a major product announcement on Tuesday, January 26th" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, where Apple's rented a stage for "several days." Silicon Alley Insider says that Apple is going to demo a tablet in January."

My intuition is that Apple is going to draw out the suspense, and wait for a day at the convention to make the grand announcement...

Source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/gadgets/apple-tablet-aka-islate-to-ship-in-march-says-wsj/?news=123

Shipping Month:

June

While the WSJ claims it'll be shipping in March, I am going to have to disagree on that one. Apple typically favors June as its favorite month to release amazing new technology - take the IPhones for examples, always released in June. It seems to work out pretty well for them, so why break something that's not broken?

Over at http://www.ilounge.com/ it looks like they agree with the June date....

Other than these multitudinous rumours, little has been said regarding the specific capabilities of the ISlate...

What I would speculate though is that it will not be too much different from the other Mac computers. Though it will more than likely rely on a 3G or 4G internet, for portability purposes. It will probably have a webcam, with all the fun features that Apple packs into taking pictures.

What is left now is shrouded with doubt and speculation...

You be the judge...if you have any ideas, The Mechanical Toaster would be more than happy to hear them...especially if you catch wind of juicy gossip - feel free to share!

One thing is for sure though, the ISlate is going to be a beautiful machine that people will be clamoring to just to have a flick or a swipe at...

Consider this topic hypothetically toasted...

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