TabletPC? Hello, anyone?
[citation][nom]tipoo[/nom]The sad thing is many (if not the majority) of people are going to think that Apple was the first with such a device.[/citation]
Agreed, people will be praising Apple for its ingenuity by turning a "writing tablet into a full-fledged computer", ignoring the fact that Microsoft tried to spur the very same market over 5 years ago.
The question won't be about the hardware (moderately powered, overpriced), but what changes were made to the OS to properly support tablet-driven input. The iPhone OS works purely on touchscreen, but unless we're going to see that sub-$500 POS computer Steve Jobs promised us, Apple's tablet better have full OSX support. No one needs a 8+inch iPhone.