Gadget Leak: Is This The Real Apple Tablet?

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Will the real Macbook Tablet please stand up? So we’ve heard rumors that Apple’s tablet computer will have a ‘Home’ button just like the iPhone. But smack dab in the center’s edge, far from a set of gripping hands as depicted by this supposedly leaked picture, I don’t think so. But hey, who knows, maybe Apple knows something we don’t and if you’re resting the device on your lap it might make some sense. And what’s up with the screen’s border. It just doesn’t seem like Apple to have such an unfinished looking product, but maybe this is a prototype version.

Of note, an Engadget commenter noticed that the exact same screen image, which is the intro for Leopard OS X, can easily be pulled off Google Image, which doesn’t exactly lend a whole lot of credence to the leak.

Believable, but not entirely sold.

[via Engadget, BGR]

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Grew up back East, got sick of the cold and headed West. Since I was small I have been pushing buttons - both electronic and human. With an insatiable need for tech I thought "why not start a blog focusing on technology, and use my dislikes and likes to post on gadgets."

Bryan

I’m quite sure that Apple is not going to ship a tablet with a crooked home button icon. Also the scale of the button is too large in this Photoshop”ed” image.

I think a tablet is coming, but this ain’t it.
jake

This looks way too similar to those cheap Chinese Mp3 players that you see on ebay. (you know the ones, almost exactly the same as this but smaller[duh!] and with a red rim.) this definatly isn’t a finished apple product, although I said the same thing about leaked pictures of the current nano last year.
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Hopefully just a mock-up as that “home” button would be very awkward in that position when propped on your lap. It would be much more likely to have control buttons and the front and back sides where your hands would rest.
yamammy

I dont see where the home button is crooked.