Machines that Go Bing! -- The Gadgets Blog

The next incarnation of OS X is to offer little in terms of features beyond ‘Leopard’ and this fact is perhaps betrayed by its derivative name ‘Snow Leopard’.

Here’s a list of the significant technical announcements from MacWorld 2008. Each of the headlines below is fleshed out in a full post — just click on the links to get the juicy details!

Initially announced at the beginning of 2007 and already delayed the Axiotron OS X ModBook is now ready for shipping several weeks ahead of schedule according to an announcement by the maker. This will make it one of the only third-party computers running OS X since Steve Jobs shut down Gill Amelio’s Mac cloning program [...]

Axiotron is apparently rolling out a device they are calling the ModBook Mac Tablet that is a fully compatible (at the moment) Mac running OS X.4 Tiger (Leopard version does not seem to available) and a Wacom tablet.

LoopRumors reports that Apple plans to reveal a Tablet format Mac in January and that it will be a completely new type of device with its own variant of Leopard geared specifically to the unique features of the device. It will include a solid state drive, a miniDVD reader and most interestingly of all users [...]