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Leopard Screenshots?

Are the screenshots real or fake?

  • Real

    Votes: 119 26.1%

  • Fake

    Votes: 337 73.9%
  • Total voters
    456
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Is it just me or does the finder look quite dark grey? It looks too dark for my liking - I'd prefer a colour similar to Mail.
 
Macrumors said:
It's Fake
- The Internet Explorer window does not have a shadow on the right-hand side like other application windows do.
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Neither do Classic windows.

Like John Gruber (of Daring Fireball) wrote: Windows: The New Classic
 

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sunfast said:
Is it just me or does the finder look quite dark grey? It looks too dark for my liking - I'd prefer a colour similar to Mail.
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I'd prefer a Mail color as well. Apple could just be experimenting.


Yonizzle said:
That "hole" effect for desktop switching is patently stupid. If you're going to have multiple desktops, chances are, you'll think of them as having some kind of side-by-side arrangement in 2-space. So if there's going to be a transition between them, something that shows an edge between them makes way more sense than the "hole", which implies that they're all stacked.

And it just looks dumber than any of Apple's eye candy thus far.
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True, but maybe Apple will offer several transition options.
 
Mac_Freak said:
The second pic shows some kind of a transition to different desktop and the dock is not included in the transition as well as as the menu bar. This is just a background image that someone is using. :(
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Notice in the menu bar, in the first screen shot there's a '1' in a circle, and it's changed to a '2' in the second shot, mid-transition.
 
lonepilgrim said:
Notice in the menu bar, in the first screen shot there's a '1' in a circle, and it's changed to a '2' in the second shot, mid-transition.
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probably was meant to mean ''desktop 1'' and ''desktop 2''
 
Whilst these are most probably fake, don't forget those dashboard shots that leaked before Tiger was announced. People dismissed those for the "Ugly and non Apple like" clock, calendar and address book widgets. Turns out they were real.
 
Notice in the second pic in the Finder window it says "CoreWindows" - if it's a fake, it has some good ideas.
 
markkk! said:
probably was meant to mean ''desktop 1'' and ''desktop 2''
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Yes, exactly.

What's that date on the address book icon? Jan 14? What's the significance of that date, if anything... it's not MWSF 07 is it? :eek:
 
Really real

I say real.
Maybe I'm just a sucker for a good OS update. And I don't think that RAM blurb is a deal-breaker here.

I will say this:
Normally a Finder window shows a home icon for the user account directory in the left-hand side of the window (Desktop, <Username>, Apps, Utils, Music, Pics, etc.) -- the user icon is missing. But in the peephole, that Finder window clearly shows Macintosh HD | Users | Administrator

Sure, the blogger could've removed the home icon, it's easy to do, but why whould he/she have done so?
 
TV65000 said:
I say real.
Maybe I'm just a sucker for a good OS update. And I don't think that RAM blurb is a deal-breaker here.

I will say this:
Normally a Finder window shows a home icon for the user account directory in the left-hand side of the window (Desktop, <Username>, Apps, Utils, Music, Pics, etc.) -- the user icon is missing. But in the peephole, that Finder window clearly shows Macintosh HD | Users | Administrator

Sure, the blogger could've removed the home icon, it's easy to do, but why whould he/she have done so?
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And look too - there's a pull down arrow at the side of them, meaning you can traverse the full path.

Also what's that nonsense about the IE7 window not having a shadow? It's there, take a look. It's not frontmost, so it has the small shadow.
 
I'm actually thinking real now, though there's good arguments against it. The peephole effect is easy to fake, but it's similar to one of the transitions in Keynote, which does lend it some credibility. The version of Windows is the main sticking point for me, because I don't think it'd be listed that way, but it's possible. I'm also curious about that new icon, since it wasn't mentioned, it's just kinda sitting down there. Lends some more credibility to the idea that this is really someone running the beta, I think.

jW
 
Well I'm going to say fake if only for the fact that I don't think Apple will want Win apps and Mac apps running seemlessly together. They will want a distinction between which are MacOS apps and which are Windows apps.
 
terrorbite said:
I really hope its fake. I'm expecting some significant (or at least noticable) GUI changes to Leopard.
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This could be a relatively 'early' stage of development. I am curious about that date, though, Jan 14. It doesn't appear to be an open app: when iCal is open, it shows the current date, and when closed shows the date it was released (is that right?) So I wonder if the default with this app is to always show the current date, regardless of whether the app is open or not - or, alternatively, there is some other significance to the date.

If it is a current date display, these screenshots are 5 months old - would that be possible or likely?
 
Well, I placed a vote for "real" just because I was excited to see anything related to Leopard. But based on others comments & observations, it seems clear that they are fake...

Foocha said:
Ideas I really like include:

- multiple desktops (very handy in Linux)
- combining Address Book and iCal - about time
- a "classic environment" for Windows XP - wow!
- iLife '06 style user interface for Finder
- tabbed browsing for Finder - great for reducing screen clutter
- favourites in Finder
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Would any Linux users mind explaining the benefit of multiple desktops? While it sounds interesting, I don't see what value it adds.
 
hmm... very interesting. the introduction of natively running windows software and having multiple desktops could be very cool.

oh, and i love the tabbed finder idea. that's one of the big things i like about firefox and adium... tabs rock. keeps thing more organized and clutter free.
 
I am starting to think that built in virtualisation, such as we are able to run apps like IE7 is depicted, would be pretty damn good.

I voted fake, however, as I too believe that there will be more significant changes to the OS look/feel.

grabberslasher said:
Notice also that the window title has no proxy icon
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eh?
grabberslasher said:
and that in the second shot the window path is shown in the title.
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so?

kainjow said:
Notice in the second pic in the Finder window it says "CoreWindows" - if it's a fake, it has some good ideas.
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but us here MR people have seen some stunning fakes in our time :rolleyes:
 
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