Report: Apple 'netbook' coming in October

Reports surfaced today that Apple will launch an $800 tablet computer in October.

The netbook is rumored to sell for about $800 and sport a 9.7-in. screen, a Taiwanese news site has reported.

"The screen size, the fact that it will be a touch screen, is pretty much along the route I think Apple should take," said  Technology Business Research's Ezra Gottheil. "The price point, though, is pretty high if Apple wants to do with [a netbook] what I think it wants to do.

"But then, Apple has never been above squeezing early adopters," Gottheil added.

According to InfoTimes, Apple has placed orders with three Taiwanese electronics manufacturers -- Dynapack International Technology, Foxconn and Wintek -- for components that will be assembled into a netbook.