It’s not the first time we hear that the future Apple Tablet will run Mac OS instead of a better version of the iPhone OS. But this time it looks like there’s proof to support these accusations. Apple has included a bunch of new features in Snow Leopard which are very touch friendly. The OS X soft keyboard has been redesigned to fit your fingers and there’s a new scrolling layout for dock stacks which offers big enough icons ready to be touched. Why would anyone need those touch-friendly features if the tablet was to run iPhone OS? Anyone from Apple cares to explain?

Oh and if you’re looking for the useless (for now) large soft keyboard, here’s where you need to go:

* Go to System Preferences>Keyboard
* Click the box “Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar”
* Go to the menu bar at top right and click “Show Keyboard Viewer”

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We’ve seen the operating system appear on Amazon.com and we’ve even seen it reportedly shipped with a Mac mini, but what we haven’t seem is an official Mac OS X Snow Leopard page on Apple’s website, until now, that is.

Apple has recently been kind enough to launch Snow Leopard’s official webpage showing off all of the features to be included with the update. Furthermore, Apple has put the operating system up for pre-order at $29.99 with a delivery date of August 28th.

While you might as well go ahead and pre-order the software if you already plan on buying it, I don’t see Apple running out of copies so there is really no rush.

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It seems that one of Engadget’s anonymous tipsters recently notified them that they have recieved a retail version of Mac OS X 1.6 with the purchase of a Mac mini. If you don’t recognize that model number, perhaps Snow Leopard will ring a bell?

That’s right, if the above image is to be believed this buyer got their hands on Mac OS X Snow Leopard before anyone else was able to. Now assuming the image is real, we’ll have to also assume that Apple accidentally bundled the software with the Mac mini.

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If recent reports are to be believed we may be seeing Apple’s latest update for their Mac OS X operating system, Snow Leopard, hitting store shelves as early as August 28th.

News comes to us from Macenstein who have gotten their hands on support training documents for Snow Leopard which gives us a hint that the update will be dropping soon. In fact, their sources were quoted to have said that an August 28th launch seems “extremely likely”.

View a copy of the support training document after the break.

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If you’re looking to secure your copy of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Amazon.com is now giving you that chance. The online retailer has recently updated their Snow Leopard listing making the operating system available for pre-order.

The listing includes the stand alone upgrade, a family pack, and Mac OS X Server edition priced at $29, $49 and $499, respectively.

Check it out, here.

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A video has recently hit the internet detailing new features in Apple’s upcoming Snow Leopard operating system.

Featured in the video is the new ’stacks’ system being added to Snow Leopard. As you can see, you can now browse through folders all in the ’stacks’ pop-up menu, previously when you clicked on a folder within a stack you would be taken to a Finder window.

It’s not a big step but it’s just a little thing to make your life that much easier, and that’s what makes Apple great.

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In an unannounced move Apple seems to have gone ahead and upgraded its white 13-inch $999 MacBooks to NVIDIA graphics. This happened over the past few days and now for the same $999 you will get a MacBook with a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processor with a faster 1,066MHz frontside bus, 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory standard, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics and Bluetooth 2.1. The hard drive and the DDR2 SDRAM haven’t been changed although the memory has been upgraded from 1 to 2GB. Getting ready for that Snow Leopard OpenCL are we apple?

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