A little bummed about Apple’s lack of consumer announcements earlier today? Well, at very least there’s a swarm of screenshots of the latest leaked beta version (9a410) of Apple’s latecomer OS. Nothing too crazy that you probably haven’t already seen if you follow the OS X betas, but a few of the interesting new bits include the Finder QuickView, a new Bluetooth device manager, and perhaps most notably, everything is finally skin-unified and looks like iTunes 7 (as might have been expected when that version of iTunes launched). Plenty of shots to roll with if you’re not the type too busy staring at Vista’s purdy new Aero.

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Big news on the UMPC front this morning folks. Looks like Intel is shedding the Origami gorilla (read: Microsoft) as they prep a Linux-based platform to compete with Vista and XP-based UMPCs. Intel will unveil their new MID (Mobile Internet Device) platform at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing later this week. Unfortunately for their marketing department, they’ve already posted the slides. Unlike UMPCs which target mobile professionals, MIDs will target “consumers and prosumers” and feature a range of screen sizes from 4.5 to 6-inches with resolutions from 800 x 480 to 1024 x 600. Yup, these are the same devices we spotted under the in-house name of McCaslin sporting Intel’s codenamed “Stealey” class of dual-core, battery-friendly processors. Intel’s reference designs run a tweaked, 500MB version of China’s RedFlag MIDINUX which boots in about 18 seconds (less than 5 seconds from standby) to a mix of open-source and proprietary code including Google Maps and web-based office and enterprise applications. Data access will be provided via HSDPA and WiFi. More GUI shots and reference designs in the gallery below.

Gallery: Intel’s MID UMPC: So long XP/Vista, hello Linux

    

[Via UMPC Portal]

Intel Ultra Platform announced [Impress]
Intel debuts Linux-based “Mobile Internet Device” [Linux Devices]
IDF keynote summary. Intel’s UMP 2007 [UMPC Portal]

Read — overview slides [Warning: PDF link]
Read — design slides [Warning: PDF link]

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