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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 9A321 Seeded
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You could look over my shoulder.
Oh, come on! Tell us! Is there anything to the "Illuminous" rumor?
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This is somewhat off topic, but the thread about the GUI is dead and almost buried. Everyone has been hypothesizing on the new "illuminous" rumors of OS (X or XI), mainly assuming it will be mostly black and glossy. Why does it have to be all black? As I was reading I glanced over at the leopard print Apple is currently using for promos/news, and thought why not black and white? Go back to basics. Use black icons instead of blue and then add slight transparency to the drop down menus and finder edges. Perhaps the metal look is replaced with a glossy or darker metal finish with polished edges. As I use Aperture quite regularily and have gotten "Front Row" working on my mac Pro, I am sensing a reflective/mirror look will be uniform through much of the core apps (think iTunes jewel cases in the "Cover Flow" view). Who knows, until it is released it's all fun speculation. I'm more excited for a more refined finish.
This is somewhat off topic, but the thread about the GUI is dead and almost buried. Everyone has been hypothesizing on the new "illuminous" rumors of OS (X or XI), mainly assuming it will be mostly black and glossy. Why does it have to be all black? As I was reading I glanced over at the leopard print Apple is currently using for promos/news, and thought why not black and white? Go back to basics. Use black icons instead of blue and then add slight transparency to the drop down menus and finder edges. Perhaps the metal look is replaced with a glossy or darker metal finish with polished edges. As I use Aperture quite regularily and have gotten "Front Row" working on my mac Pro, I am sensing a reflective/mirror look will be uniform through much of the core apps (think iTunes jewel cases in the "Cover Flow" view). Who knows, until it is released it's all fun speculation. I'm more excited for a more refined finish.
You could look over my shoulder.
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I wonder what a Macworld would be like if Jobs embraced Balmer's tactics....
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Jobs: ONE MORE THING!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!
Different build. The rumoured UI changes apply to the internal 9A326 build, not the recently seeded 9A321 build that this thread deals with.
But how do we know for sure, if this rumored "internal 9A321 build" really exists?
I doubt we'll see the new UI until MWSF at the earliest...I would think they would want to keep that top secret as long as they can because it would be a big deal *if* they have an overhaul....
It was just seeded. The developers are downloading it as we speak. It's the 9A326 build that has allegedly been seeded internally (within Apple, the general public won't see it yet) and allegedly has some new UI features.
9A321 is not the question.
I know, I mean 9A326. I corrected myself before you posted. How do we know if 9A326 is real?
Hey, do you think we'l go beyond 10.4.9 and have to go to 10.4.10??? I just think that looks weird and isn't really mathematically correct. Well, numbers with two decimals aren't, but .10 is really the same as .1 .
Oh, and it feels like 10.4.1 just came out yesterday.....
Oh, and it feels like 10.4.1 just came out yesterday.....
We don't. That's why I'm not putting any stock into this UI change rumour until I see some collaborating sources.
Well, being a person with mild undiagnosed OCD (I'm not crazy don't worry), I think I'm just going to stay at 10.4.9 and never upgrade. It's worth it. I can never tell any differences between updates unless if there's a major issue like when Mail broke down in 10.4.1 and was fixed in 10.4.2.
I'M NOT DOING THE MINOR UPGRADE!
I'M NOT DOING THE MINOR UPGRADE!
swingerofbirch
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We can't tell how far away the release is, but in the past by watching the development cycle I think we've had a pretty good idea. Basically when more and more things are fixed, and fewer things are added, we can guess that it's right around the corner.
However, these new "top secret" features throw that whole formula out the window. Those are going to need time to be tested (I presume), so what we may wind up with is a ready-to-release Leopard without the top secret features, followed by buggy seeds with the top secret features. The bugs would be slowly worked out.
In other words, I don't think we can use the old formula this year, until we see what the top secret features are. (It's still interesting to see the new fix/feature ratio in the builds, and it does give us some idea of when it will be ready.)
However, these new "top secret" features throw that whole formula out the window. Those are going to need time to be tested (I presume), so what we may wind up with is a ready-to-release Leopard without the top secret features, followed by buggy seeds with the top secret features. The bugs would be slowly worked out.
In other words, I don't think we can use the old formula this year, until we see what the top secret features are. (It's still interesting to see the new fix/feature ratio in the builds, and it does give us some idea of when it will be ready.)
Please, this has been discussed over and over and over again, and it wasn't that interesting the first time.
Please do a search.
Thanks so much.
I wonder what will happen if Leopard isnt really that good and there are no "top secret" features? Thinking back 2 years everyone said how great Tiger would be but I don't see many real benefits over Panther. OK we have dashboard for which I only use one widget and Spotlight which is cool but not a huge thing and was it worth the £69? I really hope that Leopard will raise the bar but I think alot of people are expecting far too much from it. Only time will tell I suppose.
OSX Tiger beats vista hands down. Tiger really is a great system OS. I don't know when I will be upgrading to Leopard. Part of me want's to upgrade straight away - but I need to feel the benefits. I guess it will run on my iMac G5 nicely and also the MacBook, but Tiger works very nicely indeed. I don't *need* time-machine (hopefully) as I use SuperDuper! and find it a great app.
Spaces seem cool but again, I don't think I *need* them - but I am sure I would use them if I had them as they look useful.
Apart from that, we'll see what they pull out of the bag. I would prefer a March release because that's when I get paid next.
I think we'll get a full-blown out preview at MWSF, but it will be released in Spring. We all hope it comes out at MWSF, but even Apple is TELLING us Spring 2007.