With Apple having a major holding in the education, Microsoft is now making its move with the UMPC to get a piece of it. But engadget reader today pointed out at some mysterious device on the Apple Website today, is that a Table PC? iTablet, iTab…
So for some reason, eagle-eyed reader Jacob S. was checking out the Apple website’s page on educational initiatives, and stumbled upon a picture of a bunch of smiley dentistry students at the University of Michigan using Apple products to enhance their studies. In the photo we see a pair of Mac laptops, a trio of iPods, and….a tablet PC? That’s right — the future dentist at the bottom of the photo is clearly scraping off some virtual tartar or tightening a set of of virtual braces on what is definitely some sort of pen-based computing device. Our money says that is simply a case of some jokester slipping a Microsoft-based product onto the set for kicks, because surely Apple wouldn’t be so careless as to publicly reveal a secretive product like the mythical iTablet in such a way, would they? Would they?
Update: The consensus among engadget’s readers seems to be that this is a Compaq TC1000 series TabletPC we’re seeing here; if so, kudos to Apple for publicizing the sensitive issue of mixed-OS working environments.
With lot of patents that apple had filed for touch interface, people were expecting a iTablet (sort of) a device but nothing YET is announced from apple. Though interestingly there are some prototypes that the guys at “The Place for it all” have created iTab out of an iBook.
Apple’s Mysterious Device page | Source Engadget
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