Apple Computer, Inc. is reportedly developing a new PDA minitablet for the Mac OS X Leopard Operating System based on the OS X operating system that Apple developed for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. According to AppleInsider the device is being hailed as “the return of the Newton,” referencing a PDA Newton message pad device that Apple created in the 1990s and then quickly ditched. The Newton message pad design actually launched the idea for this type of portable computing device that was successfully captured by other manufacturers, such as Palm, with its PalmPilot PDA series of handheld devices.

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