Rumors of an iTablet continue to gain steam while Apple boats a metric ton of refinements for their new Mac OS X Snow Leopard release, including better performance and smaller footprint, then goes and adds a new virtual keyboard that just begs to be touched...
...Ah, yeah, here come the Mac OS X Snow Leopard on iTablet stories!
9to5Mac leads this latest charge with the keyboard while Cult of Mac points also to the new Dock Expose, and all new, all-touchable Stacks grid. (See Apple's feature overview).
So, could Apple be making a Mac OS X iTablet, or is your money still on an iPhone OS X iTablet? Or could they really be making both?
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Snow Leopard Virtual Keyboard Renews iTablet Mac Rumors
all we know is that the ITablet is comming, but we still dont know when. so this is something we already know...(the itablet will be running what ever new OS apple has in this case it will be Snow Leopard.
MY bet is OSX tablet with a visualization layer to run iphone apps in.
Apple could run iPhone apps sort of like desktop widgets. Technically the only hard part of that would be the need for a processor emulation layer if the iTablet is not ARM powered.
Heck, even Microsoft sports an ARM Emulator, and there are a lot of opensource ARM emulators to rip off.
Gawd I hope this blog does not decay into a iTablet blog.
Sounds good. I still don't think it's going to be launched next week, or did you guys already debunked that ? I haven't been keeping up.
Please have pressure sensitivity. Please have pressure sensitivity. x. -_- .x
I hope that it will run OS X! i kinda think that it will.
Haha. So true! How did you get you dock to look like that though?
Check your current Leopard (and maybe even older OSes). They have this virtual keyboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I often use this to type out my passwords in case there is some keyloggers.
Jeez, do some research guys (you and other blog sites).
This is NOT NEW!!!
You realize this was in Windows Vista?
No. No. The iTablet will run with the stone age Tiger OS. No. No. Actualy Windows Vista will drive the iTablet. Wouldn't that be swellllll?
These keyboards have been in OSX for a LONG time. I started using it in Tiger.
@Hello:
Exactly what I thought when I saw the headline...LOL!
Is this thought to be new?
It says "then goes and adds a new virtual keyboard". It doesn't say, for the first time, It's just updated...
In defense of the article, this marks the first time that the keyboard pallette is freely resizable.
In previous versions the keyboard would only toggle between 2 sizes small and slightly larger ;-)
Maybe they are going to release the tablet at the music event since they had to get all of this Snow Leopard stuff out first. Seems kind of odd that the required OS update has come out so close to the music event doesn't it?
Icebike - you are spot on...
@Cody
System preferences ----> then dock ----> then select left instead of bottom
Do people want a tablet, but have been unhappy with existing attempts at making tablet computers? Or do people simply hear a rumor that there will be an Apple Tablet, and assume that Apple will make it something that they'll want?
I hope it's the latter. In my experience, tablet PC's are useful for only niche things because, well, there are a lot of things you want to do with a computer that involve entering text and there's a reason we have keyboards as opposed to writing everything out by hand.
well, have a look at this. watch the videos!
http://www.apfelcenter.de/apple/interessantes-bedienungskonzept-des-tabl...
No it is for a laptop with a screen and a touch screen. Screen at the top touch screen to type, manipulate objects etc...
Apple is a brand which move FORWARD
The OS better be Mac OS X. If it is iPhone OS like it could suck, because you are simply limited to what you can do on iPhone.