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Apple Tablet

Happy New Year to all!

It seems as soon as I save a bit of money I'm already finding ways to spend the excess...

I've recently caught Apple Tablet fever - an odd feeling since I had no interest in the semi-fictitious device up until now.

After observing my usage of my netbook however, I think it would be a perfect device for me.  I initially bought my netbook to do super-mobile development - a workstation wherever I am.  Although it can perform this function admirably, in reality I seldom use it like this.  In fact I'd say 90% of the time I use it for simple email checking / web browsing on the go, whenever the iPhone screen feels a bit cramped.  This echoes John Gruber's recent sentiment about the device:

The Tablet, I say, is going to be Apple’s new answer to what you use for personal portable general computing.

I certainly see it filling that gap for me.  It would be a lighter, sleeker (and Apple-ier) replacement for how I use my current netbook.  But I'm such an edge-case, I am curious as to how Apple is going to position this for the mass market.

Would you buy an Apple Tablet?  Take the poll! http://bit.ly/4OksAn