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Tablets coming for the holidays, but is it time to buy one yet?

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This year’s hottest new tech gadget was undoubtedly Apple’s much-talked-about iPad, the sleek tablet computer that has sold millions and started many discussions about whether the future of personal computing will be seen on a touchscreen.

But the iPad debuted only about eight months ago, and the entire nascent tablet market has emerged since then. That is hardly enough time for a new type of technology product to mature or to find the many generalized and specialized tasks it may eventually be used for.

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Still, the flood of tablets is about to begin, and we’ve looked at a few of the newest ones in our Sunday business story about tablet computing, and the accompanying video.

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-- David Sarno

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