Tablet buzz
There has been a lot of speculation going around about a tablet PC offering from both Apple and Microsoft. Tablet PCs are not new; a few examples have been around for years. Although they have never been popular up to now, advances in hardware have now made it possible to have more desirable features. This and the move to more mobile devices has rekindled interest in this old form factor. The buzz has reached the point where the New York Times has taken note:
The high-tech industry has been working itself into paroxysms of excitement lately over an idea that is not exactly new: tablet computers.
Quietly, several high-tech companies are lining up to deliver versions of these keyboard-free, touch-screen portable machines in the next few months. Industry watchers have their eye on Apple in particular to sell such a device by early next year.
Tablets have been around in various forms for two decades, thus far delivering little other than memorable failure. Nonetheless, the new batch of devices has gripped the imagination of tech executives, bloggers and gadget hounds, who are projecting their wildest dreams onto these literal blank slates.
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