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Gallery: Apple's tablet event - LIVE

San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is the place to be to find out why Steve Jobs and Apple have the tech world on the edge of their seats.
By Andy Smith, Contributor
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San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is the place to be to find out why Steve Jobs and Apple have the tech world on the edge of their seats. It is a tablet?

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The stage is set.

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Steve Jobs appears with a big grin.

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Jobs shows off what everybody's been talking about - the iPad.

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Jobs relaxes with his iPad.

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YouTube HD videos. You can watch in portrait or landscape.

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The iPad touch keyboard.

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iPad is powered by an 1GHz Apple A4 chip and contains from 16GB to 64GB flash storage.

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iPad comes in green - environmental green, that is.

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9.7-inch display

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Apple's Scott Forstall talks about the developer's kit - available today.

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With Facebook, you can play with the standard iPhone app version of it or click the 2x button on the bottom right and the app window blows up to fit the screen.

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The game "Need for speed" was upgraded from iPhone to iPad in a short period of time.

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MLB worked with Apple for interactive Webcasts of major league baseball games.

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And of course the iPad will allow you to read e-books.

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The user interface is exactly like iTunes or the App Store.

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Read the New York Times on iPad.

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