Tablet Mac May Finally Arrive This Fall

Rumors are that Apple will announce a 12 or 13-inch tabletin the fall of this year. Most likely in the

September or October time frame. It will run the full Mac OS X and have a slot loading SuperDrive, an “iPhone-type” GPS chip and an Intel Core Duo processor, presumably Intel’s Atom.

Whether it’ll be a based on the iPhone or MacBook form-factor remains to be seen. You’ll recall that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer spilled the beansthat an “iPhone” that will be using Intel’s new Atom processor after which he was quickly corrected by Apple. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire indeed.  Apple’s had tablet Macs in the labs for years but hasn’t decided to make one a real product, until now.