Apple Tablet rumour gets price point and release date at Geeker

We can now ad two more pieces of data to the body of ‘knowledge’ circulating in the blogosphere about a possible forthcoming Apple tablet.

Here’s what is currently strongly suspected an upcoming Apple tablet device

Screen size: 9.7 inches
Chipset: Intel dual core or Samsung ARM11
OS: App-store-compatible version of OS X
Release date: October
Price: $500 – $800

The two later gems of wisdom have come to us courtesy of a China Times article which states that Apple is working on a large touchscreen device. Chinese supply companies are all quoting October as the release window.

It’s great to see the idea of an Apple tablet format machine becoming a reality but I’ll be very dissappointed if, as rumours seem to be indicating, the new device is just a large format iTouch that can only run the AppStore programs. For $800 I’d want the full flexibility of a tablet format Macbook.

Let us know your thoughts.

Originally by Steve from Machines That Go Bing! on July 13, 2009, 1:46pm