'Marble' Interface to be Revealed in Next Snow Leopard Seed?

[FerdiV]

You mean as in drag the window up to the left corner, then go down to the right corner and yank the resize handle until the window fills up the screen? Sure, but that's like 10 times more cumbersome than clicking a single button, or dragging the title bar to the top of the screen like in Windows 7.

Uhm well let's see... You're not an experienced Mac user. The + makes the window full screen at certain programs. Programs which NEED it are using it. The programs which don't, don't (like Safari). So is there anything wrong with that? It's much better than when every program would go fullscreen with the +, some windows don't need it. Besides, I won't be able to see the desktop anymore when that happens

The + is great.

 

[SpinThis!]

The Mac's menu bar was conceived in an age when dual or quad-screen setups were a distant pipe dream, when Macs had 9" screens and every pixel mattered.

My muscle memory is programmed to aim for the upper left corner of the window I'm working in

Oh boy, another armchair usability expert. There's no "muscle memory" if you have windows scattered all over your screen and you have to slow down your mouse movement before you hit your target (the application's Windows). It's a lot easier for someone to just throw their mouse up to the top of the screen and the mouse will stop even if you have a multiple screens.

If you have access to dual monitor setup, try this experiment... setup your dual screens so your secondary display is right on top of the primary one so they're stacked. Then go for the menubar—I bet you miss it every time. That's what Windows is like but far worse. Anyone who says they have muscle memory for Windows is fooling themselves. Tog tested that theory and accessing Mac's menubar is 5 times faster than Windows.

 

[NT1440]

(15" only, the new 17" looks gorgeous).

I dont get how people keep making this statement. The macbook, the macbook pro 15", and the macbook pro 17" look exactly the same!

 

[InkMaster]

I dont get how people keep making this statement. The macbook, the macbook pro 15", and the macbook pro 17" look exactly the same!

I'm guessing he's talking about the 17" matte which is damn pretty compared to MacBook/Pro hp Special Edition

 

[branjosef]

Does this mean that since everything is going to the iTunes look, that all my documents will have that pesky little arrow next to them so I can look them up in iTunes. Also will I only be allowed to open a file or folder on a max of 5 computers before being forced to deauthorize one of them. Am I going to have to have an itunes account just to do anything on the computer. AHHH!!!!!!!