Apple Tablet in the works — or just a revival of the Newton?

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Aug 24, 20051 min

Engadget points out that Apple has posted a job description for a handwriting recognition engineer, and that earlier this year the company received a patent for a tablet-style computer.

The site added in the fact that Apple switched to Intel earlier this year and speculates that just maybe Apple could be working on a version of the Tablet PC that would, of course, run some form of a Mac OS.

The job description is live on Apple’s site.

MacRumors posted about the handwriting recognition engineer as well, and presumes that whoever takes the post would be working on the company’s InkWell technology.

Lest we all get ahead of ourselves here on the tablet, Apple could just be looking for someone to resurrect the old Newton. Or perhaps not.