Magic Slate Apple Rumor Surfaces

There’s been a lot (and I mean a lot) of rumors and speculations about the upcoming plans of Apple regarding their tablet PC. It’s even been enough to give a boost on Apple’s stock price to an all-time high. Some of the facts that help solidify the case are the reservation of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for a product unveiling, the fact that iSlate.com was registered by Apple and now news is they also have trademarked the name Magic Slate.

While Apple already has a product called the Magic Mouse, a replacement for the previous Apple mouse named Mighty Mouse, it’s likely that this will be less of a slate tablet and more of a trackpad peripheral similar to the Wacom tablets.

CES 2010 will be host to a lot of announcements by different companies of their own slate tablets so the pressure is on both sides: will Apple trump the CES showcase with their own device or will we get better products from the other side of the fence. Exciting times.

source MacRumors