The Apple Tablet = the iPad

John Brownlee ()

The Apple Tablet = the iPad

And here comes the Tablet.

After implicitly acknowledging that they will announce the Tablet, Steve Jobs has just asked whether there is a third category between laptops and the smartphone. He thinks there is. It’s called the iPad.

What a terrible name, and what a shame the rumors are true. The device is exactly the same as what was leaked on Engadget earlier today, yet without the bolts and S&M leather.

And I was so hoping for Magic Slate.

More details to follow.

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • iGenius

    Does it ANYTHING new?

  • http://www.toxicspark.com Andrew Macdonald

    It’s gorgeous. I want one.

  • Jim

    just give it 2 or 3 generations… it’ll be everything we wanted and more. remember the first ipods?

  • http://AW1Tim.vox.com AW1 Tim

    And yet, still no slide-out cup holder.

    What’s up with that?

    And where is the custom-designed leather iPad shoulder bag for all the metrosexuals to carry this thing in?

    Sigh…….

  • http://cdinsky.com Cdinsky

    I love it. And I’m a PC. It’s still a little frou frou. No manly man should be heaving one of these around, but it’s okay for a lithe collegiate girly man. :D

  • D’oh!

    “…and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after one of literature’s most deviant perverts. You can follow him here on Twitter…”

    thanks…no, thanks…

  • http://www.travismorien.com Travis

    So the rumors that this thing wouldn’t support a stylus, thus making it not very useful as a notetaking device for students were true.

    That’s a real pity. Although this thing looks gorgeous, it seems to be less useful than the Entourage Edge (which DOES support note taking etc) and is definitely nowhere near as good as the proposed MS Courier for my purposes.

    I’ll keep my options open and not say “never ever”, but I haven’t seen anything yet which makes this look like something I’d be interested in buying.

  • scottythrust

    The “iPad” has been available in the New England states for many years now…

  • Jeff

    If only we can turn it into an oversized remote control for the TV…

  • http://AW1Tim.vox.com AW1 Tim

    Scotty,

    That’s iPahd… ayuh. Still about as ugly as a stump fence.