Why are Tablet PC rumors so hot?

PC World | at | by Mike

You can't stumble around the Internet these days without bumping into it. News, rumor, speculation, and hot gossip about -- no, not David Letterman's love life (who knew he had one?) or the Jon and Kate Gosselin train wreck -- tablet PCs.

Yes, over the last year the PC's buck-toothed, developmentally challenged second cousin from the sticks has become an Internet darling.

As the New York Times' Brad Stone and Ashlee Vance so aptly summarize: "Tablets have been around in various forms for two decades, thus far delivering little other than memorable failure.