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These finds gets me excited about the possibility of an Apple tablet that can run Mac OS X. The folks over at Cult Of Mac point out a few new features in Snow Leopard that would be ideal for a larger touchscreen device.

Here is what Leander Kahney writes.

Look at Expose in the Dock — the new feature that reveals all an application’s open windows when you click and hold the application’s icon. It’s tailor-made for fingers. Even more convincing is Stacks in the Dock. Hit a folder icon in the dock, and up pops the folder and all its files. Each icon is a big target for your finger, and the window has a big, fat slider for scrolling up and down (no more fiddly little arrows at the top or bottom). Both of these UI tweaks scream ‘touchscreen.’

The other piece of information in the article and first reported by 9to5Mac is the change to the soft keyboard.

In Leopard and before, the soft keyboard was located in the International System pref and was very small (half-sized – See below). You could make it bigger but only one size.The new keyboard is much (finger sized) bigger and is located in an input method (keyboard) system pref.  You can now resize it as well to stretch all the way across the screen.

That would be perfect for an iTablet device. While these finds aren’t a slam dunk that any Apple tablet device will run Mac OS X, it sure gets you thinking Apple may be close to making the long rumoured device reality.