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So how come Apple hasn't done an NDA on Wired???

So. This is the result of the WWDC that everyone said was the worst ever.

Eat your heart out Microsoft.

Macaday: Wouldn't having a heart be necessary first before a meal is possible?

nukeman: I think they did, but just for descriptions and pictures of the features that weren't "publicly" announced @ WWDC on on apple.com

See here: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/screenshots_mac.html

Steve Jobs saw Coverflow, bought the rights/company, and now is integrating it into Mac OS X.

I like being able to flip through previews of files instead of relying upon Spotlight or file names.

I'm just too lazy to rename stuff anyway.

Playing with the almost complete OS is like foreplay. You may enjoy the fact that you don't know everything that it does, but when you get the full access you get happy...and then disappointed.

Go back to Panther. We thought that was the best OS ever. No spotlight, iLife, and dashboard and you ask yourself why we thought it was worth a damn.

In 3 years we will ask why tiger was so great. Pft. It doesn't even have cover flow in finder.

iLife was WEAK compared to the new version.

So everyone, lets take a moment and appreciate Tiger for the next few months. We are moving on, but remember the good times...oh the good times.

Funny how we haven't seen any Vista vs. Tiger reviews. I wonder if we're gonna see some Vista vs. Leopard shoot-outs. Maybe everyone knows that there's no point to it. Maybe everyone knows that OS X destroys any flavor of Windows, so why even bother with a comparison.

@nukeman

So how come Apple hasn't done an NDA on Wired???

Re-read what MDN copied: Wired got their copy in a less than legitimate way. In other words, someone else violated their NDA by "loaning" it to them.

No need to read the full article for that.

I'm glad to hear about the Path Finder-like features in the Finder, but I'm a bit queasy about the "flaky" performance on a Core Duo MacBook. Has to be a beta thing, right?

A couple of (annoying) things:
Aside from the new, reflective, 3-D dock at the bottom and the translucent menu bar at the top (slyly borrowed from Vista Aero),
So, the menu bar at the top letting light shine through is a Vista feature? Isn't the bar at the top an OSX feature? It isn't on my XP system, but is on my Tiger and Panther systems.
the visual influence of Windows Vista is evident as well.
This interface was shown to the public what ... a year ago? And Vista was offered for Beta when? A few weeks later? And this is due to Windows Vista?
Dude, they share many similarities. Mostly because they are tracking the same concepts. Yes, they each 'copy' some things from each other - and from Linux, don't forget - but the more obvious features noted in Leopard are not 'copied'. Even if they DID 'come later'. Many of these have been in the works since Jaguar!
frisby had a good point about going back and noting how wonderful the new iteration was - though I'd take it back to Jaguar. Each gets better, and you have to wonder if they can keep up the pace. Apple couldn't, not quite, they had to extend the wait between updates from a year to over two years. Maybe this version won't be faster (on the same system) than the previous one - as was 10.4, 10.3, 10.2 and 10.1! Still ... spaces alone may make it worth the price.

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I'm still waiting for the more appropriate Vista vs. Panther shootout. Let's start from there.

Ubuntu Beryl, baby!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k-qaPGgFrc&NR=1

I had the distinct (dis)pleasure of using Vista for the first time this weekend. I went to Best Buy and tried it out on a desktop and a laptop. The laptop was a Toshiba with a Core 2 Duo processor (1.88 GHz, I think) but it was not the new Santa Clara chip. Boy, was it ever freakin' S L O W !!! Every click took 5 seconds to register.

The desktop was an HP machine with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo chip. It ran much smoother on this machine, but there was still a slight, noticeable delay with each click. The GUI looks better than XP but looks very Fisher-Price-ish if you ask me. Ironically, the shoe is on the other foot for Winblows users and their frequent comments about OS X looking like it was made by Fisher-Price! The transparency is overused and makes the active window nearly impossible to discern.

Many things were much harder to find and use on Vista vs. XP. The Start menu is even more convoluted and crappier. The sidebar is almost a joke. Very few gadgets can be customized. For example, you can't change the time zone on the clock gadget - it always displays the local time that you have already set up. What a freakin' joke!!! Also, some gadgets have buttons that do nothing when clicked on. On a positive note (one of the rare ones), you can access your system specs much easier with Vista but not nearly as easily or as detailed as System Profiler.

Winblows users bend over! Here comes Fista! Make sure you have plenty of Vaseline on hand for it.

"Playing with the almost complete OS is like foreplay."

Does that mean you can see the reflection of your outstretched tongue in the new, more lickable Dock?

That would be cool but I may be too spring-loaded to try it now.

ewww

Matt: "I'm glad to hear about the Path Finder-like features in the Finder, but I'm a bit queasy about the "flaky" performance on a Core Duo MacBook. Has to be a beta thing, right?"

Are you for real? Or you some paid for FUD astroturfer employed by Microsoft??

Yeah, sorry you have to be. Otherwise you've got to be one of the most dim witted bulbs on the internet. This is a DEVELOPER BETA.

Stop spreading FUD.

No shove off.

MDN "makes" ignorance makes me angry.

I'll never understand this crap about the Leopard interface copying Vista.

All the elements on the desktop have been there for 6/7 years. The dock has been translucent for most of that time. The menu bar is now made translucent to match the dock, for the sake of making a change.

In comparison, Windows doesn't have a dock or menu bar. It has a Start bar at the bottom which is black...

The Leopard Finder is simply continuing the progression of making it like iTunes, which has been around in Windows for 3 or 4 years now, and leaves Windows Explorer in the dust...

I won't even bother mentioning all the cool features and functions in Leopard that aren't available in Vista...

Why Oh Why can everyone not just Drink Some Camels Milk?