I guess if I were working for a company manufacturing some kind of long-awaited killer new product, and if I were an engineer, I'd probably be on a lot of plane flights to where the manufacturers are.

Hmmm...now where are Apple products made again?

Source: Gizmodo

Oh, that's right. All the manufacturers mentioned in conjunction with the mythical (possible/likely?) Apple tablet are all based in Asia. And according to Alaska Miller at The Business Insider, a source tells them that a friend of his working for Apple as a system integration engineer keeps making all these trips to China.

What's more, apparently, this friend doesn't even get to count on the Christmas holiday season without a vacation to the Pacific rim for a couple of weeks. That does sound important, now doesn't it?

If this is legit, it sounds like Apple's got something close to completion they'd like to roll out relatively early in the new year. Why am I somehow doubting it's a retooled line of iMacs?