
I’m looking around my house for things I can sell to make money. Not because things are that bad here but because I want to buy something. I want to buy something really, really bad. And I don’t even know exactly what it is. Apple will announce what “it” is tomorrow. But everyone says it’s going to be an Apple tablet with touch interface and its name is the iSlate or the iPad or the iDontReallyKnow. Apple has called it, in their invitation to tomorrow’s announcement, their “latest creation”. Now, if you’re a geek, you know this already. The Apple Tablet is to geekdom what the Sex and the City movie was to women in their forties, and then some. There is so much speculation around this thing, it’s actually getting a bit boring. Yawn, bring the damn thing on, for God’s sake. But, if you want to know all the speculations and rumours, Gizmodo has their “Exhaustive Guide to Apple Tablet Rumors” and their Jesus Diaz has done a great job speculating about the interface. I can synopsize much of the speculation for you though and tell you that most of the rumours are about telephone companies, magazines, newspapers, and booksellers who may be teaming up with Apple and their “latest creation” and that the Apple Tablet will be bigger than an iPhone and smaller than a laptop. It also looks like it will have the following cool features:
- able to run iPod/Iphone apps
- WiFi and 3G capabilities
- a 10-inch color display (which has newspapers, magazines and book publishers all in this deal because that’s the perfect size for their digital versions)
I’ll be checking out all the details tomorrow for sure but since I already love my iPod Touch more than any other device I have ever had and have basically forgone my laptop for it, and since Apple’s new tablet is bound to be like a grown up version of the Ipod Touch/iPhone, I know I want it. And I know it will be expensive. The big question mark for me is going to be battery life. My iPod Touch depletes the battery way too fast for my liking and my laptop is worse. So, what’s Apple going to do about that? A pretty, portable thing like an Apple Tablet plugged into the wall? That’s just not right.
I gotta go now and hunt around and find some stuff to sell. Let’s see. The laptop looks like a likely place to start. Oh, but I have time. I’m not an early adopter. I let other people deal with the bugs in the system and then when they’re straightened out, I’ll try to find some money to hop on the bandwagon. But I’ll be watching and wanting. Really, really, really wanting.

This blog was in the running for the award but I didn’t promote it or say anything about it here. Campaigning is not my thing and the truth is I don’t think I post consistently enough to warrant such a distinction for this blog. I hope the NL Bloggers Choice Award got more people checking out all of the great blogs from Newfoundland and Labrador, those that were up for the award and the many others that are on the
Facial hair. What is up? Is there a big Grizzly Adams or Unabomber movie coming out and everyone wants to try out for it? There were some ugly, ugly beards there last night, beards that looked uncared for and like small creatures could pop out of one at any minute. Worst of all was William Hurt, but John Hamm, George Clooney, and Jeff Bridges didn’t do much for forwarding beard love.
Tina Chaulk is a writer who lives in Chamberlains, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, with her husband, two sons and dog. Her second novel,
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