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Leopard In Action: A Movie?

The obligatory real/fake poll:

  • Real

    Votes: 195 46.7%

  • Fake

    Votes: 223 53.3%
  • Total voters
    418
10.5 prerelease my eye!

I say fake.... on the "about" screen, it simply says 10.5 prerelease.
Uh, never beta tested Apple Software before, but um, never saw beta software that didn't have some kind of version or revision number for tracking purposes.

Especially since different beta versions are usually seeded so not everyone is really testing all the same exact things.

Not to mention.... one of the only really credible things known to be changing in 10.5 is a refresh to the dock. That dock sure looked the same.
 
swingerofbirch said:
I'd say fake, why would it say pre-release instead of the build number?
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That's what they did with Tiger...you get the build number when you click on the text.
 
Fake, real, who cares. That video is as boring as bat sh*t, if I were leaking a video I'd be showing all the coolest stuff, not just a UI fix up and tabbed Finder. Seriously, big freaking whoop about a tabbed Finder.

Show us the good stuff.
 
MacAddict1978 said:
I say fake.... on the "about" screen, it simply says 10.5 prerelease.
Uh, never beta tested Apple Software before, but um, never saw beta software that didn't have some kind of version or revision number for tracking purposes.

Especially since different beta versions are usually seeded so not everyone is really testing all the same exact things.

Not to mention.... one of the only really credible things known to be changing in 10.5 is a refresh to the dock. That dock sure looked the same.
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A quick google search found this:
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from this page: http://blog.dermk4vw.com/archives/200501.html
 
Suxxorxs. If this was a real video, why not show some real sugar instead of some x-coded gui crap with tabbed browsing? C'mon, this is utter crap. Even if it was real, who cares? Leopard has to come up with something better than this. Looks like a cheap porn video, although lacking all the interesting parts.
 
The video's real alright, but is it really leapord. I say not.. I'm betting it's that finder app that's not actually finder, skinned a bit, and then a video was taken. At least the dude remembered X-Code on there..
 
On a PPC?

When does all Intel happen? Isn't PPC support supposed to be dropped from 10.5 or 10.6?
 
richdun said:
When does all Intel happen? Isn't PPC support supposed to be dropped from 10.5 or 10.6?
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There is no chance in hell Apple are going to drop PPC for 10.5.

10.6? Well, G3s are still supported..... to this day.

Depends on the time gap - my ( unimportant ) guess is yes.

No one outside of Apple knows ( who can tell us ).
 
richdun said:
When does all Intel happen? Isn't PPC support supposed to be dropped from 10.5 or 10.6?
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Never? Why would they go to all Intel when they have UB of everything? Those Quads are not going to be totally worthless for at least 4 or 5 years. :)


I think it's real. Probably a very early version. Maybe from last year…
 
richdun said:
When does all Intel happen? Isn't PPC support supposed to be dropped from 10.5 or 10.6?
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Not for ages. A huge percentage of Macs in the wild are PPC, I'm talking 90something percent. PPC support won't be disappearing for a long time yet. I wouldn't be surprised if G3 support was dropped with 10.5 as it was for iLife '06 but when you consider that the most powerful Mac on the market is a PPC still, it wouldn't make sense to drop PPC support just yet.

10.7 may go G5 only and 10.8 may be Intel only but 10.5 and 10.6 will definitely be Universal. That is if Apple decide to drop PPC - they may not, who knows.
 
I don't buy it. The sidebar is titled "Sidebar". There's gonna have to be a lot more to see in August than what these fakes depict. Also, why would anyone have Leopard running in such a situation. It just doesn't add up.

Edit: I still fail to see why everyone gets so hot over a tabbed Finder. Exposé does more for window management than tabs could. Besides shouldn't we be working towards a non-hierarchical system at some point where tabs won't be necessary?
 
As more of a general comment, I'll be really disappointed if this is what 10.5 ends up looking like. It seems like more of a step-back in the eye candy department, especially when compared to Vista. I know that its still more functional and useful than Vista, but I was really hoping for built-in virtualization and transparency, and based on Looprumors, Apple Insider, and this video, it looks like none of this will happen. All of these features would be necessary for Mac to really become a legitimate alternative to Windows in the eye of the public.

I recently switched, with a 17" MBP, and I couldn't be happier. Almost everyone I talk to who asks me about buying a new PC, I recommend a Mac to, and if 10.5 supported virtualization and had transparency, Vista and the Windows platform would become basically irrelavent and I think you would see people switching in droves.

Hopefully this is fake, or at least just intended to show off tabs in finder. If one of the top 3 advancements in 10.5 come September is still just tabs in the finder window, I'm not sure OS X can still keep claiming to be far in advance of Vista once it comes out.
 
UGH who uses their iMac in an elevator?

On a serious note, WHY the hell is Apple keeping these ugly pin-stripe folders. They better rework this :mad: If the only thing that changes is the stuff being ''unified'' I'm not upgrading :mad:
 
markkk! said:
UGH who uses their iMac in an elevator?

On a serious note, WHY the hell is Apple keeping these ugly pin-stripe folders. They better rework this :mad: If the only thing that changes is the stuff being ''unified'' I'm not upgrading :mad:
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I don't like the look of the folders either. That's why I use CandyBar.
 
I think one of the main dead giveaways that this is fake, is that the fact that the icon for ICal is the same date as the current one.

Now please correct me if i am wrong, but these have changed each new release, right?
 
DMataic said:
I think one of the main dead giveaways that this is fake, is that the fact that the icon for ICal is the same date as the current one.

Now please correct me if i am wrong, but these have changed each new release, right?
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Don't think so, iCal came out on July 17th and the icon has shown that date ever since. In 10.3 when you opened it the date on the icon would change to the current date and hold it even after you quit the programme. In 10.4 when you open iCal it shows the current date but goes back to Jul 17 when you quit.
 
I'm going along with "who cares?" vote. Real or not, that clip is a snoozefest.

And somehow I can't picture Jobs getting up on stage in August and saying "You know, after Spotlight we knew what we had to do - tabs!" I mean, if tabs were that big of a deal, you don't need to wait for Leopard, you can get 'em now with the rather amazing, feature-rich Finder alternative Pathfinder, which I have a feeling Apple will be emulating at least to some extent in Leopard.

Just for the record, I don't use Pathfinder - at least not yet. But I get more and more tempted as they continue to refine it.
 
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