My MacBook Pro running Leopard (not the dev preview)

[ghall]

Yes, you read right. I have got my hands on the actual beta of Mac OS X Leopard. In this beta, Spaces and Time Machine are built into the OS, so there are no icons on the dock for them. If you look at Spotlight, you can see that if you type "dictionary" and then a word, Spotlight will show the definition of that word.

As you can see, there's a new icon on the dock, and a new menu icon in the menu bar. Both are used to control the Windows Environment, which operates very similarly to the Classic Environment on PPC Macs. Obviously, this feature is not compatible with PPC Macs. It uses your Boot Camp installation (though as of this beta, Windows Vista is not compatible) and runs your Windows apps alongside your Mac OS X apps.

You can also see the iTunes 7-esque interface has almost completely replaced Aqua.

Sorry about the screen shot though, Apple doesn't seem to have any sort of screen capture utility in this beta, possibly to avoid any leaks.

 

[davidjearly]

haha. good one.

 

[ghall]

haha. good one.

What are you talking about?

 

[Scarlet Fever]

how'd you get your hands on it? And did you not like Spaces? its not in the dock...
i am playing along, btw

 

[dartzorichalcos]

You must work for Apple then.

 

[ghall]

how'd you get your hands on it? And did you not like Spaces? its not in the dock...
i am playing along, btw

Spaces is built into the operating system, and is not included in the dock. It's envoked by pressing F8.
I know you are.

 

[Littleodie914]

Wow, and on April 1st... That's months before we were expecting it!

 

[psycoswimmer]

Spaces is built into the operating system, and is not included in the dock. It's envoked by pressing F8.
I know you are.

Oh, so just like Exposé! Wow, I can't wait for Leopard.

 

[Eraserhead]

Apart from the fact that the top of the dictionary is behind the spotlight search box it's pretty good (as a fake).

 

[ghall]

Apart from the fact that the top of the dictionary is behind the spotlight search box it's pretty good (as a fake).

What ever do you mean?

 

[JNB]

Spaces is built into the operating system, and is not included in the dock. It's invoked by pressing F8. C a n I p l a y ? stevejobsbunnyrabbit

Did you remap your keys? When I press F8 I get Time Machine, F7 brings up Spaces. I haven't changed anything. Oh, and F1 starts to bring up Help, but the Office Installer keeps launching and looking for the CD. You are right about the screen capture not working, though...

 

[peterjhill]

April Fools!

 

[synth3tik]

hah, very clever. I like it.

 

[zblaxberg]

i love how right under spotlight it says april fools day...nice try

 

[cycocelica]

You can download this beta from the Apple website.

 

[Lyle]

Going off-topic slightly, but are pranks on April Fools Day a US-only tradition? I'm asking because it's been my observation that, nine times out of ten (very precisely measured by me), the guy or girl who falls for the joke is a non-American. Is it perhaps because Americans are so used to the tradition that we're extra-skeptical on April 1?

 

[Zwhaler]

i love how right under spotlight it says april fools day...nice try

Yeah I saw that too

 

[djstarrock]

Going off-topic slightly, but are pranks on April Fools Day a US-only tradition? I'm asking because it's been my observation that, nine times out of ten (very precisely measured by me), the guy or girl who falls for the joke is a non-American. Is it perhaps because Americans are so used to the tradition that we're extra-skeptical on April 1?

Well I have it here.

 

[ghall]

Glad you all gotta kick out of it. Can't wait till next year.