The good old Apple rumour-mill has been grinding away for months and now it looks as if we’re a positive step closer to learning the truth. The Cupertino, California, based giant looks set to reveal its new tablet computer soon, with a late-March launch for the product that shall (at least according to those bearing rumours) be called the iSlate.

It’s basically a big iPhone or iPod Touch; a 10- or 11-inch touch screen with (we can only assume) all the now-familar features of the iPhone plus the functionality of one of the company’s Mac Book laptops will at last be available soon.

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the selling price is likely to be $1,000. Not a cheap, even if convenient, substitute for your average laptop or notebook PC, but we at SimplyDV towers can think of some interesting uses for digital video-makers. Just think – a Wi-Fi connected device into which your SD or even HD movie clips can be imported using the Mac user’s preferred OS and edited in (dare we speculate further?) iMovie. The sky’s the limit, really.

Here’s a video clip with more information (or should that be speculation?):

A trawl around the web right now is sufficient to glean the following specs:

  • 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
  • Built-in iSight Camera; Built-in Projector (Projector?)
  • 7.1 inch Widescreen Multitouch display, with intelligent feedback; finger-print resistant oleophobic coating
  • Two USB Ports, SD Card Slot
  • Built-in Stereo Speakers, built-in mic
  • Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T (Gigabit) Ethernet
  • Built-in Airport Extreme Wi-Fi (based on IEEE 802.11n draft specification)
  • Built-in Bluetooth 2.1 EDR Module
  • MAC OS X Clouded Leopard v 10.7

 More info as we get it!

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