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first they drop firewire and now aqua???? Incredible!! How can Apple be so WRONG??

"I’ve made this prediction several times in the past and been wrong, but eventually I’ll be right"

Ahh, the "blind squirrel" method of prognostication.

Jan 14, 09 - 10:49 am Comment from: MacintoshSoftwareList.com

Hum, if no one has seen this for themselves, how can they know it is going to happen? THEY DON'T

Again, double gross. Those FUGLY iTunes scroll bars. EVERYWHERE!?

It is time for User THEMES!

Jan 14, 09 - 10:54 am Comment from: Randian

Hate, contumely, vitriol, doubt, suspicion, condemnation, reproof, denunciation, castigation, vilification, and universal poop-throwing. Get on board quickly, guys: the train's leaving the station!

/* It is time for User THEMES! */

You mean- like in Windows??

Release date?

Jan 14, 09 - 11:13 am Comment from: Roberto

@ Ratty,

I just checked my Mac Pro and all the FireWire ports are still back there. The ones on the front are still there too; what are you talking about?

Jan 14, 09 - 11:16 am Comment from: HMCIV

@Gabriel

I wonder how is roulette strategy is?

Jan 14, 09 - 11:19 am Comment from: DLMeyer

What is "fugly" about the iTunes scroll bars? I just took a look, remembering only the FUGLY look of the left-side column contents, and decided the scroll bar is one of the nicer parts of the iTunes "look".
I remember back when Macs had a themes option. 3rd-party, even. Many of the user-designed themes were seriously horrid, but there were also quite a few that were both attractive and functional. That was pre-OSX, though, and Aqua reduced the need for such work-arounds.

@ HMCIV

I wonder how [h]is roulette strategy is?

...hit-or-miss?

As long as it doesn't look all shiny and stupid.

Too bad ! Now we will get 10.5 "muddy" everywhere... I love aqua ! 10.2 was the clearest and cleanest interface for me.

@ Roberto

it's just a matter of time until Apple finds your mac pro and removes the FireWire ports. bank on it.

Jan 14, 09 - 12:08 pm Comment from: feral

so we are getting serious graphics card power
yet
apple is "flattening" the graphic look?
mmmmm....
guess the happy shiny screens will help.

Jan 14, 09 - 12:14 pm Comment from: Buster

Consistent with Apple changing the old OSX interface, I heard that Snow Leopard will change all matte screens to glossy after installation.

"Marble"?
That's the deal breaker.
I'm switching to Windows.

Jan 14, 09 - 01:16 pm Comment from: Cubert

Crap! So much for my wish for a granite GUI.

Jan 14, 09 - 01:19 pm Comment from: Cubert

I absolutely HATE the flat scroll bars in iTunes. There needs to be some depth to them. Hell, even in Windoze the scroll bars have Microsucks crappy version of drop shadows.

Jan 14, 09 - 01:23 pm Comment from: Crabs

Oh wow...you people are complaining about scroll bars?! Now I've seen everything...

Aqua is ugly, but the iTunes scrollbars are uglier. Doesn't matter though because it's going to look like iLife '09: dark but with subtle gloss. I can't wait.

Jan 14, 09 - 01:35 pm Comment from: Wun Dum Gai

When will I be able to use "Kaleidoscope" again!!!

its good to see everyone here ripping Apple a new one.

Jan 14, 09 - 03:05 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

@ratty

yeah, it's like you're all a bunch of little girls...

@ G4Dualie

careful G4Dualie, because everyone here might rip you a new one once they are done ripping Apple a new one.

Jan 14, 09 - 03:46 pm Comment from: Yours Smugly

I never quite got the flat scroll bars in iTunes. Why did Apple make such a stupid mistake in details when they finally made the GUI's look unified througout OS X in Leopard?

@ Smugly

Because Smugly, Apple is dumb as dirt. Thats why everyone here is ripping Apple a new one.

I hope Apple has some "... one last thing" statement when demonstrating Snow Leopard to the public. I currently enjoy a thought that maybe Apple has under wraps new, unheard-of functionality for Snow Leopard.

Speculation reasoning:

Maybe they want Redmond to start their photocopiers much later than they did in Vista now Windows 7..

Apple:

DO IT! Go get 'em!

And MDN:

Thanks for giving a MDN Magic Word that I could type with only my left hand! I found it so much easier than having to use two hands.. you should do that more often... thank you so much! The MDN Magic Word was "car" which can be typed with only the left hand. Thanks again!

Jan 14, 09 - 07:50 pm Comment from: ken1w

Funny... I never even noticed that iTunes had different colored "handles" on the scroll bar. Now that it's been mentioned, I guess the look in iTunes is a better fit for the overall look of Mac OS X Leopard, instead of the bright blue currently used on most other scroll bars.

But I was actually hoping Snow Leopard would look and feel mostly like the current Leopard, with all the big changes "under the hood."