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OS X Snow Leopard 10A402 Brings Visual Tweaks and Other Enhancements

davegregoire said:
You can now minimize into the dock icon with the new build. There is a new option in dock preferences that allows you to collapse into the icon like windows 7. No more open window apps on the ride side of the dock.
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You can already do this in Leopard by pressing cmd-H.
 
timshundo said:
If you look a tad closer at the new list style, you'll notice a few things. Not only is the list transparent so that you can see what's behind it, but this is the first UI in OS X that slightly blurs what's behind it as well in a Windows Vista fashion.
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Leopard menus have blurred their background since 10.5.0. It's nothing new, although it might be more visible with dark menus. Also the menu bar blurs its backround in Leopard (you can switch it off if you don't like it).
 
karifranz said:
You can already do this in Leopard by pressing cmd-H.
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hamis92 said:
Leopard menus have blurred their background since 10.5.0. It's nothing new, although it might be more visible with dark menus. Also the menu bar blurs its backround in Leopard (you can switch it off if you don't like it).
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Wow, sure enough. I'm above my "You Learn Something New Everyday" quota.
 
karlfranz said:
You can already do this in Leopard by pressing cmd-H.
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Actually, that hides the window. Hiding has been around in Unix systems for years. I recall a NeXTstep demonstration from 1992 that had the exact same feature.

It more or less functions the same, but hiding is not truly the same thing as minimizing.
 
Implementation of GMA 3100 drivers is excellent!

Eidorian said:
Anything on the Intel GMA drivers?
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Looks like they FINALLY got it right!

The issue with weird random black lines when encoding videos in iPhoto or iMovie on my black MacBook 2.4 GHz is resolved !

I can also play FULLSCREEN HD movies on Hulu with ABSOLUTELY NO JERKINESS!
 
coolfactor said:
I have Leopard, but I'll be buying Snow Leopard for $129 instead of $29 because it's worth way more than that to me, and a healthy markup is what allowed Apple to become what they are, so I will continue to do my part. Thanks for your hard work, Apple. Keep it up.
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Okay, enjoy throwing your money away.

You do realize that the "markup" you so happily want to pay to Apple comes from their hardware and not their software, right?
 
BRLawyer said:
Yep, search. Spotlight ALONE is worth more than any version of Windows...don't even remind of my Outlook searches when at work...finding a specific email is a mess.
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Instant Search (first demonstrated by Microsoft in 2002 but taken to market first by Apple) works more or less the same, so now both platforms can benefit greatly from improved searching capabilities.
 
BRLawyer said:
You mean the same "professionals" that abandoned Apple in the late 90s for Windows, just like Adobe did?
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My point, exactly. Since Apple switched their target market, the original market has gone and left.

As much as I like their Intel machines, it's clear it was a new era when they stopped PowerPC support. The PowerPC machines really felt expensive, the Intel machines... not so much.
 
So I can't tell if this is new or not.

Quicktime X is playing .wmv just fine. I don't think Leopard does this, and I'm not using Flip4Mac.
 
Shake 'n' Bake said:
That new menu is giving hope to Marble. I really hope we see it.

I'd like the customization level of OS 9, although I doubt we'll see that.

I'm tired of the mix of Aqua and newer neutral colors. Just make the highlight in that menu and it'll look perfect. One thing I don't want however, is the flattened scroll bars.
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AMEN! I just asked earlier this week if there was still a chance we could see "Marble" in Snow Leopard. This is giving me hope that it actually might still happen.

It is not that hard to reskin is it? It doesn't require a lot of bug testing or time etc. Or am I wrong? Anyone here have any wisdom to offer me on the subject?

I think these new changes look very good! :D Please Apple just make it ALL CONSISTENT, not all mismatched like it is right now with flat, and aqua, and everything else. :(
 
SiCbe said:
I really like the new HUD style... Goes well with the new designs of the laptops. Only thing I still don't like about the 3d dock is still present and had been since the release of leopard.

When using the List view... the items in the dock stay magnified when moving the mouse in the menu...

But when using Fan or Grid view... the items in the dock pop back which annoys me a lot. It's just not "beautiful". Especially when you have your items hugely magnified.

Any idea's why they haven't fixed this yet? :)
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Did you log a bug with them over it? Have you logged it for the latest beta that you are using? You have to log your bugs through AppleSeed or BugTracker, otherwise the SL Teams probably won't know about it.
 
Unsure?

I want a netbook really badly. :(
But I want an Apple netbook that is if its going to be made. I don't hear any news that Apple will be coming out with one. :confused:

So, should I just buy a lenovo S10 netbook and install hackintosh. I have installed hackintosh on a desktop but can't run the latest version of Apple software cause its not the current release.

:mad:

if they're not going to come out with a netbook then at least they should support running Mac OS X on netbook's out there from other vendors.
 
Great to see some small UI improvements.

I know many of you many not like this, but I'd love a MobileMe-like theme such as Kevin Andersson's mockup:

 
ColinEC said:
Great to see some small UI improvements.

I know many of you many not like this, but I'd love a MobileMe-like theme such as Kevin Andersson's mockup:

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Damn that HD icon is HUGE. :eek: Are you having a problem finding it on your desktop. :confused:
 
Quillz said:
Actually, that hides the window. Hiding has been around in Unix systems for years. I recall a NeXTstep demonstration from 1992 that had the exact same feature.

It more or less functions the same, but hiding is not truly the same thing as minimizing.
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The Classic Mac OS had the hiding feature too. It's nothing new, for sure. Anyone care to post description or screen shots of how this minimize to application feature works? How does it differ from hiding the application and its windows?
 
inkswamp said:
The Classic Mac OS had the hiding feature too. It's nothing new, for sure. Anyone care to post description or screen shots of how this minimize to application feature works? How does it differ from hiding the application and its windows?
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I've seen a vid on youtube on this. When you click the minimize button, the window does the genie effect only it goes into the icon. I.e. a finder window will genie into the finder icon in the dock. But there's no difference in the icon to indicate if something's minimized into it though.
 
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