This is the second of a five part tablet computing

Part 1: Invite the 'Normals' into Computing

The basis of a potential tablet paradigm shift comes from the mobile computing revolution triggered by the iPhone several years ago. Just have a look on YouTube at all the 2-3 year old children using iPhones or Android phones as they can get around the interface even easier than a computer. There's no learning to type, just pick up the device and touch it, simple. But what brought us from desktops to tablets, is it via iPhone? Visually, we've been seeing the idea of tablets all along. As paper, slabs of stone, or in science fiction.

There has been a lot hype and speculation surrounding the Apple tablet for months leading up to its launch, but is the Apple iPad the device that everyone was expecting it to be? The device that would change the mobile computing landscape as we know it?

Turns out, it is neither of the above. The iPad, from the information we have now, is nothing more than a giant iPhone, sans a camera, and the ability to make phone calls.

Sure, it's equipped with a 1GHz chip - a significant upgrade from the 512MB chip that the iPhone 3G S sports - but its potential cannot be fully realized since it's stuck with the same iPhone OS, which means you are incapable of doing any multitasking with it and can have only one app open at a time. A few other things that would have made the iPad infinitely better would be an HDMI port, USB ports, and Flash support.

It has been speculated for a while that tomorrow’s big announcement from Apple is going to be the tablet, and it looks like it's all but confirmed by Apple now.

On CNBC today, McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw, confirmed that the Apple tablet is a for sure, and will be launching tomorrow.

He went in to all sorts of detail about tablet including that it would surprisingly be running the iPhone OS rather than the full OS X operating system that would come on your laptop or desktop.

I can't help but think that Apple won't be happy about this little TV interview Mr.McGraw did, as they like to do product releases as a big event, which are sort of an Apple trademark.