Well, if it looks real, sounds real and is halfway logical, we probably should distrust it all the more. Yes, it's the time when all the
rumors, photoshops and
general hysteria around Apple's
next slab reaches its apex. The photo above was grabbed by the steady hand of sas126, a
blurrycam snapper in name only, and posted to Chinese site
Weiphone, purporting to be the logic board for the
iPad 3. The big news (if true) is the "A5X" silicon, suggesting we'll see an incremental enhancement rather than the wholesale revolutions evident in the
A4 and
A5 chips that accompanied its predecessors. The
SoC (with the Apple logo, to the right of the two Hynix memory modules) carries a date-stamp of 1146, suggesting it was produced in the 46th week of last year. Of course, now that we're getting so close to the actual event, whatever
Tim Cook whips
out on stage will never match whatever we'd conjured up on our own hearts: so try to dampen down that rampant excitement because we've still got 17 days left to wait.
