Snow Leopard looking like the OS of choice for Apple’s tablet

By on Sep 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Rumor September 2, 2009

At this point we would be hard-pressed to find anyone who still doubts the impending release of an Apple tablet — or even several Apple tablets — but a little more supporting evidence never hurt anyone. Cult of Mac spent some time compiling a collection of conjecture surrounding Snow Leopard and the variety of new touch-friendly features found within. While none of this is concrete proof of the Apple tablet’s existence, combining these tidbits with the plethora of existing evidence leads us to believe that Snow Leopard will be Apple’s tablet OS of choice rather than the iPhone OS as had been rumored. Starting with the most in-your-face evidence, the OS X soft keyboard has gotten a touch-friendly overhaul. As you can see above, the tiny on-screen keyboard from Leopard has been replaced with an expandable board that should end up being very finger-friendly. To see it for yourself, hit System Preferences > Keyboard and then click on “Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar”. Now just click on “Show Keyboard Viewer” under the menu bar icon and enjoy. Other UI tweaks, such as a new scrolling layout for dock stacks that features nice big icons just begging to be touched, further support the claim that 10.6 will likely find its way to a tablet in the coming months. So boys and girls, any interest in a $700-$800 Macblet running snow cat?

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  • Invid

    @ The Truth:

    “What would be the point of addressing more than 4 GB if you are a common computer user though? Unless everyone who bought a computer runs CAD software or does some serious graphic design, what additional benefit is there?”

    Running multiple simultaneous virtual machines or large Photoshop images and desktop publishing software, things like that are mostly workstation tasks now, but large memory applications will trickle down to the common user eventually. After all, most people have dual core processors now, and that’s not something that you need to run Word or surf the web now is it?

    Realistically, games will probably be the first class of application to leverage 4+ GB of RAM. Supreme Commander, a game released in 2007 showed improved performance and responsiveness in systems with 4GB of RAM (and a quad core processor) versus systems with only 2GB for example.

    You might as well ask why anyone would ever need more than 640KB of RAM. I agree that 64bit kernels are the future, but SL’s solution minimizes the pain associated with the transition.

  • AdamC

    Because most apps run on 32 bits….

    How many windows apps are 64 bits?

  • The Truth

    @ Invid

    Valid point. My last comment before I call it a day…

    The caveat with the X64 architecture is that you can’t use a program compiled with a 32-bit driver. A 32-bit program can and will work in a 64-bit environment, it just has to be using a 64-bit driver. This is up to MS to prod software vendors for, not the responsibility of MS.

    And of course, didn’t you know the bar to measure performance is “…but can it run Crysis?!?” ;-)

  • Jimmy

    Windows released a full 64 bit system, sure. Too bad it’s a piece of s***.

    I’ll buy a mac tablet just so I can sit in a starbucks writing my newest book and taking dumps in the lap of all the Vista users who can’t muster up enough free memory to open notepad.

  • http://F1nbar.wordpress.com f1nbar

    Well i think that apple wont release a tablet they already have the perfect touchscreen device i think thell scrap the macbook air and replace it with a 10 inch macbook air to fit the mid range portable computer slot
    iPhone blog … F1nbar.wordpress.com

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