The Tablet That Lives in a Lobotomized iMac (2008)

Because all Apple patents turn into actual products 100% of the time, the Apple tablet must have a dock, or something:

Meet the flagship of Apple's recent flurry of patent activity, a product some have been predicting Apple would release for years: the Mac tablet. This slate-format tablet is as portable as a MacBook Air, but with a twist: It also docks into an iMac for regular desktop work.

But not just any iMac. This is a very stupid iMac:

This may seem mundane at first, but don't count on Apple leaving this as a simple, dumb display, with a relatively underfeatured tablet shouldering all of workload. Tucked inside this custom iMac you'll find a larger, secondary hard drive (for extra storage or automatic backups), a beefed-up graphics chip, or even an extra processor, giving the tablet a power boost befitting a workstation.

It's clear that Maclife cherry-picked Apple patents the synthesize this particular rumor, and almost everyone who's written anything about the tablet is guilty of a little dream projection. The problem here, though, is that the dream is very, very dumb. Oh, and Apple already tried it, rather miserably, in 1992.