The Register is talking about an Apple Tablet PC. I’d bet my money on some sort of digital entertainment controller/touch-screen. Something to allow you to put all your media on your PC (or better yet–Mac/iPod), stream it (via AirPort Express), to your existing home entertainment system. And I’m sure I’m not the first to say this (just have to go eat, and don’t have time to find the other sources).
And why not? Apple’s success with the iPod, truly the greatest convergence marvel we’ve seen of the digital age yet, suggests that Apple is pretty much light years ahead of everyone (except maybe TiVo and the always-lurking Microsoft) on the PC-home entertainment bridge. Why not create another sexy new toy to make the home entertainment system more powerful, while also making it sexy again, just like iPods did for music players.
You heard it here somewhere near first, but obviously not quite leader-of-the-pack.