According to Engadget, a Japanese reader sent this pic of the install disc that came with said reader’s new Mac Mini. Notice anything strange? Yup, that’s OS 10.6, version 1.0, aka Snow Leopard.
As always, the disc could be a fake, but it’s quite possibly the lamest thing to fake on the planet. So you got that under-the-hood update a week before everyone else. Neat. You do have to wonder, though, how did Apple let this one slip out? If it wasn’t a slip, we would have seen pictures from other recent purchases, no doubt. Then again, it could be that all the people who care about this sort of thing wouldn’t buy a computer the week before a new OS is set to release.
Either way, the pic probably, most likely, near definitely adds credence to the rumored August 28th ship date for the new operating system.
