‘Crave’: Apple developing tablet computer
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 6, 2007 at 5:01pm
According to a report at Crave (a CNET site), ASUS, a contract manufacturer responsible for building MacBooks, is building an apple tablet.
“We checked back with our source at ASUS on a different day and they confirmed that the Apple Tablet will not be based on existing ASUS designs such as the R1,” Crave notes. “It will come from a completely new blueprint, possibly based on the patent Apple filed back in May 2005. We’re guessing it’ll be based on Intel Core architecture, a tweaked version of Leopard, and have all the multi-touch, CoverFlow goodness we’ve seen in the iPhone and iPod touch.”
On May 11, 2006, Macsimum News reported about an Apple patent that hinted at a tablet computer or a new type of Mac laptop (the graphic with this story is from that patent filing). You can read about it here.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
rogerr Says:
OK...what broad market would this device serve? What great need does it fulfill? I don’t get it--and most supporters just say “I can see a need for thousands of these...” but you have to sell multiple millions to be viable.
Posted on November 06, 2007