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Latest Leopard Visual Tweaks and Intro Movie
macrumors.com — The latest Mac OS 10 Leopard seed that was released on Friday to developers has introduced a number of notable visual tweaks to the operating system. Notes and screenshots have been gathered from public forums which reveal the improvements found in the latest version of Mac OS X Leopard.
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- TheSpecialisto, on 10/10/2007, -12/+14Great news!
- defectDS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13... everyone!
- alexkorova, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14You will be delivering a package to Chopek 9, a planet where humans are killed on sight.
- defectDS, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13... everyone!
- Logal, on 10/10/2007, -34/+3OMG! now I don't have to look in the right corner to see what the date is, I can look at iCal! /sarcasm
- karipatila, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16Missing the point a bit, aren't you?
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8The iCal icon has always showed the correct date while iCal was running. Now it just always shows the correct date regardless. If you ask me, it should always have been one way or the other, as this has confused me more than once.
- opiniastrous, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Regardless of what you think, I've been wanting that for a long time, and I bet a lot of other people have too.
- Rudiger81, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Obviously a windows user, OS X displays it top right not bottom.
- Konstantino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3He actually never said bottom, but he did say right.
- Logal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not a Windows user. I was just kidding, actually. God, everyone takes stuff so seriously on here. You all need to get the sand out of your vaginas.
- Konstantino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3He actually never said bottom, but he did say right.
- yanikleo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33It may be a small improvement but I certainly welcome it. I always thought that it would be something so simple to do to have an interactive dock icon like we've seen before. I say "about time!" I can't wait for all the new features :-)
- Pct1theory, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20anybody see the screenshots that were taken down, anybody have a mirror?
- zunipus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Yesm. Go the to gallery linked in the related forum noted in the article:
http://gallery.mcdevzone.com/v/leopard/
You can make out the changes the locked out images showed.
- zunipus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Yesm. Go the to gallery linked in the related forum noted in the article:
- bakura, on 10/10/2007, -1/+93July 17... longest day ever!
- Audacitor, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21That is the best in-joke I've ever seen.
- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What you mean is, it's the cleverest joke you've got :P
- Bob042, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Am I missing something? My iCal icon says Sep 22 in the dock too. Unless they meant the icon in the applications folder, which I never see for more than a second anyway. That's not new.
- sirius2k3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9when its not running. Quit the iCal app. The date will go back to Jul 17th
- dunkin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5presumably the iCal icon now shows the current date when it's not running (it used to show July 17)
- Bob042, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Ahhh, right. I don't have iCal staying in my dock, so I don't really notice the brief flash of July 17. That is useful, I suppose.
- toetagger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1The best "ever" ever.
- CrushThemTorg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I hated the July 17 at first, but once I understood why it was there I think ... I think I might miss it.
- jumanji69, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6why was it there?
- tzon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The Date it debuted at Macworld Expo NYC July 17, 2002
- diggimator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ah, I see. Apple had the crowd fooled for only one day.
- jumanji69, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6why was it there?
- Audacitor, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21That is the best in-joke I've ever seen.
- Rileyper, on 10/10/2007, -17/+2wheres the intro movie???
- M4cb0y, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5http://youtube.com/watch?v=1rX37MBI-PQ
- supa, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4
what do you think this means?
- Screen sharing "finally works right" and seems very fast at full resolution- kris33, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It means what it says. That screen sharing works good and is fast. What screen sharing means is that you can share your "screen" with friends or yourself at another place. Like VNC
- Grogtron, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0What he said. It's a new feature that has been pretty lame up until recently.
I'm a little distressed that there is still so much inconsistency in the UI but I suppose it isn't actually finished yet. - enicholas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've been running Leopard since the very first WWDC beta, and I'm a religious Screen Sharing user. I don't have any idea what it's referring to either -- as far as I can tell there have been no changes to Screen Sharing in the last few seeds.
It worked just fine in the last seed for me (and considering that I'm sharing a 1920x1200 and a 1650x1080 monitor, I think "full resolution" definitely applies...)
- livevil, on 10/10/2007, -15/+2They're copying Avant Window Navigator!!! Call the police!
- Ziggyzaggy, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21I wish I had a Leopard.
- astrosmash, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'm going to miss Tiger. She and I have had some great times together.
- Ireland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Ride her before you dump her /drunk sarcasm ;)
- astrosmash, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'm going to miss Tiger. She and I have had some great times together.
- Dotmeister, on 10/10/2007, -20/+2I'm using iCal on my MacBook with Tiger 10.4.10 and that date feature is there.
- Audacitor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Only if iCal is actually running. If it's off, it just says July 17th.
- uptown, on 10/10/2007, -4/+30So I've been waiting for Leopard to "switch" to a MacBook Pro.... now they say MBP's may be re-designed ....
This game sucks....- inertic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Keep on waiting for the next feature/redesign Apple is planning and you will never own a laptop. It's a risk you take, just like I bought a Macbook before the core 2 duo processors came out.
- hisXenocide, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1me too. a week before they new processors and a few weeks after the free ipod nano for students. completely shafted. oh well. love my mac.
- Grogtron, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Word is that they MBP's will be launched along side leopard.
- Me1000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3not going to happen
- ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4That's with any piece of technology. Something new is always going to be developed.
- astrosmash, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3How long have you been waiting? Is it really worth the $100 to go without a new laptop for 3 months (or more). Not to mention, if you buy a retail copy of Leopard you can install it on any machine, which is nice if, say, you pick up a used Mac Mini in the future.
Anyway, Macs retain a very high resale value. The smart thing to do is buy a model near the middle of it's 18-month life span, after the initial bugs have been worked out, and then trade up once the new model comes out.
I traded my 18 month-old iBook G4 for a MacBook for only $350, and I'll do the same when the new MacBook models come out (after the initial bugs have been worked out, of course.) - nfs480, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I believe it is just the Macbook's that are getting redesigned. Not the Macbook Pro's. The Macbook Pros were just redesigned a couple of months ago.
- inertic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Keep on waiting for the next feature/redesign Apple is planning and you will never own a laptop. It's a risk you take, just like I bought a Macbook before the core 2 duo processors came out.
- JasonCox, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Hey, we dugg that wallpaper off Nasa.gov a few months ago.
- honesttussey, on 10/10/2007, -7/+5Does anyone know if will Leopard support native NTFS R/W support? It would seem like a smart thing to do since Apple is trying to migrate Windows users....anyone know?
- calgone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Isn't NTFS a proprietary Windows format? There are drivers out there to write to an NTFS drive from Mac OS but I think they do it with reverse engineering which doesn't really seem like Apple's thing.
- yabos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I read that some people finally got some write capabilities in Linux and since Apple uses the open source as much as they can then they might be using that. However I haven't heard of any possibilities of NTFS write in Leopard. Yes it's because of Microsoft. They only way to get to write to NTFS is to reverse engineer the format which is probing to be pretty hard to do apparently.
- astrosmash, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You can read and write NTFS partitions today, in Tiger.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-r ... - toetagger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I suspect there may be a surprise up Bootcamp's sleeve, considering it is still "beta". Maybe NTFS-FAT/RW.
- Protoss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3OSX already has FAT32 Read/Write.
- aquose, on 10/10/2007, -8/+3it's marvelous. i wanna buy a Leopard someday.
- Raian, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5what a glorious future
- snyper2s, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2zomg
- ChillEnt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Does anyone have those "New Desktop Images"?....Imageshack removed them because of their high-bandwidth usage....screw Imageshack
- insanebrain, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2. .. eeuh . . w. . o. . w. ..
- fazik93, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2http://youtube.com/watch?v=G7u8Yf5nuG8 the whole song on youtube
- nakile, on 10/10/2007, -8/+34Looks like Leopard is going to end up being the most advance OS in the world.
And for less than Windows Vista Home Basic. Why the ***** is a new copy of Vista Basic $200?- kris33, on 10/10/2007, -8/+9M$?
/shoot me - Me1000, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Why the ***** is there a Vista Basic?
2 versions a Server and a Desktop...
not 6!- DonCarcharo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6I actually like Vista but I couldn't agree more.
- manitoba98xp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4The list is actually a bit longer than that. If you include Server OSes, you have:
1. Windows Vista Starter
2. Windows Vista Home Basic
3. Windows Vista Home Premium
4. Windows Vista Business
5. Windows Vista Enterprise
6. Windows Vista Ultimate
7. Windows Home Server
8. Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition
9. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
10. Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition
11. Windows Web Server 2008
12. Windows Storage Server 2008
13. Windows Small Business Server 2008
That's 13 (+ another few if you count the N editions like some do; I don't).
- 35263526, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Because Microsoft's aim is to sell you the software, whereas Apple's is to sell you the hardware. If Apple is making the majority of its income selling prebuilt PCs, it doesn't matter if it articially deflates the price of the standalone operating system, since somewhere along the line someone had to buy hardware to run it.
- ttamshadbolt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Don't get me wrong - I'm a macboy - but where are the new features? Yeah, an up-to-date iCal icon is nice... but where is the real innovation?
- DOGPARTY, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Core Animation
- kris33, on 10/10/2007, -8/+9M$?
- yodinosaur, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17desktop pictures complements of "mycintosh" on the macrumors comments
http://gallery.mac.com/michael.fonfara#100174 - sixdust, on 10/10/2007, -9/+4I love macs and all, but that video sucked balls.
- gmprunner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I guess it takes after you just fine, then.
- maxputer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I am looking forward to this OS release like no other... bring on 64bits with unified application development... it's going to fly.
- ericxoxp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Dugg for iCal icon date.
- mtappenden, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Leopard is turning out to be a really big step in the OS X line after all :) Not only are there some great new features in just about all the main areas of using a computer, but the user interface is a giant leap forwards and the whole thing just looks very polished.
- Toniee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I want it with the hopefully new macbook design.
- Toniee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y4TeKG98kiQ
- jk_baller23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5boo...none of the images work anymore
- Protoss, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah anyone got a mirror of the images? Apparently MacRumors hosts all their images at imageshack >.
- CATSCEO, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2When the HELL is Apple going to announce the release date?! Its ether Halloween or MWSF '08.
- djsim, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Sometime in October. That's all we know.
- dagamer34, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's probably going to go gold Sept 30 and be released Oct 31.
- Syphon8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3*Adds flyout toolbars to taskbar*
- Gavin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Looks fresh.
- sirius2k3, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2So.
I haven't been seeing any pictures or mention of Dashboard in Leopard. It's not going away, right?
¬_¬- eatrains, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6You may want to take a look at Apple's site: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/dashb ...
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