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Jason Wilk of TinyComb wrote on his blog recently that his dad golfs with Cedas-Sinai Execs, and that Jobs has visited multiple times in the past six weeks to talk a new hardware device. Wilk also believes that Apple will be targeting the tablet as a medical device first, consumer device second. Apparently there’s already a very popular tablet computer for doctors—the Moti0n Computing C5—but it weighs more than three pounds and goes for over $2000.

There’s a certain amount of sense in this, assuming Apple could get around the hurdles required for hospital equipment: namely everything needs to be able to be easily sterilized. The iSlate would have to be heavily shielded to survive the frequent abuses that would be heaped on it.

I could see Apple marketing the tablet at hospitals, but I don’t see it targeting them above every other sector. Perhaps Cupertino will announce a healthcare specific model later this month, and we’ll see a number of different versions of the tablet, for different functions.

[via Venture Beat, via 9 to 5 Mac]

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