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God. Please stop with the "sexy". An application window or OS theme is not "sexy". What you mean to say is "visually appealing" or "cool" or "good".

For your education, here's a list of other things that are never sexy:
Cars
Lamps
Computer hardware
Computer software
Corporations
Industrial design
Cell phones
MP3 players
Packaging

That is all. Thank you.

Packaging could be sexy. What about Mrs. Butterworth's pancake syrup. :D
 
While I really like the idea of brushed metal being phased out, I think Apple needs to give more experienced users the option of changing the appearance more. I use APE (Application Enhancer) to change the color of the dock, just like you can change the appearance of the Terminal. I'm not that big of a UNIX geek to change things like that without 3rd party apps, but more than just two color themes (instead of only Graphite and Blue) would be greatly appreciated, because it would look better with the slick new look of the Finder.
 
In regards to the 'illuminous' thing. I can count at least 4 instances of this effect on the Apple website in the past few months.

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ (you have to see it slowly)

http://www.apple.com/itunes/ (the download iTunes button)

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event/ (from the MacWorld keynote)

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/action/?movie=nab

the video real above has the same kind of space look with stars in the background as Time Machine

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html
 
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