English tends to be a universal and well-understood language.
Consider that Nintendo, a Japanese company, always uses English words on its hardware ("Start," "Stop," "Select," etc.) Even Japanese hardware, like the DSi, features English text.
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Photos of Snow Leopard Disc and Retail Packaging?
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Consider that Nintendo, a Japanese company, always uses English words on its hardware ("Start," "Stop," "Select," etc.) Even Japanese hardware, like the DSi, features English text.
Not often does this happen anymore. When was the last time Apple requested a photo be removed? It's been years.
Theyre letting leaks get out because it's free publicity.
I like it, but Apple has these all over their website.
Well, either one of two things; the packaging is a fake or Apple simply provided those pictures as place holders until they decided what the packaging would be like.
Great point.
Here's what Leopard's disc image looked like before its release:
And after release:
+2! This new packaging is UGLY!
I can understand they are trying to differentiate from Leopard and what not, but the former packaging looks soooooo much better!Sooooo I guess the marble interface does not exist... sad
Yup.
Now I have a double disappointment with Snow Leopard. Ugly rebranding and no new UI. I am really excited for Snow Leopard, but I am very disappointed that the UI is so completely mismatched now! I can't believe Steve and his OCD have let the UI get so mixed up.
My only hope now, is that with the new technologies in Snow Leopard, that Apple will have an awesome completely new UI in 10.7!
I think they hinted at that too during the keynote. Didn't that guy say something along the lines of "We've re-written Finder from the ground-up, in case we wanted to do anything to it later."
or something?
Wait so the $30 Snow Leopard won't have a clean install/erase option? Where have you seen this?
If so that's disappointing, I want to do a clean install and I certainly don't feel like paying for iLife and iWork which I don't need.
Actually, just the opposite was said. They liked the UI of Finder so much, they kept it the same, and merely rewrote Finder as a Cocoa application.
The packaging looks awesome, I was expecting I wouldn't really like it, since this is the first time Apple have used any big-cat photo to advertise there OS on the box. But everything needs a change and the old Snow Leopard disk sort of looked like Leopard. I hope Snow Leopard is coming out on the Friday, then its just after GCSE results day, woooo
Believe what you want, but it's pretty much confirmed when you consider that the "Install Mac OS X" application [Build 10A432] uses the exact packaging artwork as pictured in this thread.
You have no one to blame but yourself for believing such stupid and baseless rumors that Snow Leopard would include a totally new UI. I don't know how much clearer it could have been made that Snow Leopard is just an "improved Leopard," nothing more.+2! This new packaging is UGLY!
Yup.
I am really excited for Snow Leopard, but I am very disappointed that the UI is so completely mismatched now! I can't believe Steve and his OCD have let the UI get so mixed up.
My only hope now, is that with the new technologies in Snow Leopard, that Apple will have an awesome completely new UI in 10.7!
Snow Leopard does not include a new UI. All it includes are a few (very minor) changes to the overall Aqua UI, which likely will remain in place until Mac OS 11.
Clean install is available via Disk Utility on the SL disc. It still checks for the leopard presence.
No alot of people just like to appreciate the care & time its gone into even making an Apple package. now if you look at packaging from rival companies, well you'll see PC's been packed in plain ordinary brown boxes, and some sort of silhouette of the computer in black ink thats it, Apple take pride in every last detail.
Some people here probably do.
Also, this is a forum about Apple products. (Although there sure is a lot of discussion about Microsoft, too.) Thus, even mundane news like packaging artwork is big news here.
Apple has publicly used the "big cat" code name since 10.2, Jaguar.
Hmm... My Apple iMac came in a plain brown UPS box, too, just like my Dell.
When's the last time you bought an Apple computer? The iMac box features a profile of an iMac and some boiler plate text. It's no more "detailed" than the last Dell I bought, which more or less looked identical.
And if Apple truly took pride in every last detail, then people here wouldn't be screaming about the "horribly inconsistent" UI that apparently exists in Snow Leopard.
Yup!
Obviously you don't follow this site as much. This is the final QTX icon:
(They were also requested to be removed from MR a while back. Confer https://www.macrumors.com/2009/07/2...-and-quicktime-x-icon-in-latest-snow-leopard/)
I don't like the change to the QuickTime icon either! It looked MUCH better with the purple and the aurora theme!
umm yes I know that thats why I said picture on the packing, I have been a Mac user for 11 years I do know
If by "packaging artwork" you mean the icon for the installer package; I know. I saw it when I installed it. I am lead to believe that someone took that icon, and just ran with it. Probably taking screenshots from Apple's website, and piecing them together, all the while, forgetting to translate the "Install DVD" from English into Portuguese.
umm I think you need to google iMac box, Apple have never used brown box for its main packaging, they use them for shipping boxes to put the main iMac in or for refurbished Apple products.
As for the U.I in Leopard, I cant see anything wrong with it, looks perfectly fine to me. I like it and I'm a snow leopard tester i have the latest build, I love it. A new U.I will be obvious its coming soon in 10.7, wonder what will be called, we've only got Cougar, Lion, thats about it really lol
umm I think you need to google iMac box, Apple have never used brown box for its main packaging, I think they use them for refurbished Apple products so you must have bought one of them oh & They only use them to protect the main packaging called a shipping box
when i got my mac, it was the nice apple box inside a brown box. apple packs most products in a brown box around the pretty one.
I was not expecting a completely new UI at all. I was simply expecting a refinement and for Aqua to be taken out. There was plenty of evidence and signs of that happening along the way. But now that it did not happen, and Mac OS X's UI is more mismatched than ever before, I am hoping for an entirely new one in 10.7!
yeah, its called a shipping box to protect the main box from getting damaged lol