Is Apple Launching a Digital Hub Tablet PC?

By Alexander Grundner | November 28th, 2003 comments icon Comments (0)


PBS Online technology columnist, Robert X. Cringley believes Apple will possibly be introducing a Digtal Hub Tablet PC in early 2004. The article is pure speculation, but Cringley tries to connect the dots with the news coming out of Taiwan stating that Quanta, Apple’s laptop manufacture, has switched their production over to building Tablet PCs. Cringley even goes a step further and explains that Apple will create a “killer app” that will make Apple’s Tablet PC a true digital hub that will not only control your TV, stereo, VCR, and DVD, but be able to stream Hi-Definition video over an Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) wireless network.

Sounds to us like wishful thinking. But who knows? If there is anything to take away from this article, it’s Cringley’s explanation of the two leading UWB wireless technologies: Multiband OFDM (802.15.3) and DS-CDMA.

* Brought to our attention by Gizmodo

News Link: Robert X. Cringley, “Digital Hubris,” PBS Online, November 27, 2003.

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