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SapUMBC

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Can you simply log out and take a screenshot? Or... I haven't tried to take a screenshot. What would be cool is to take a screenshot of the "loading" (progress) window, the one that has "Starting Mac OS X... waiting for network initialisation, starting printing services" etc. :-D

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That screen is gone now... All it says is "Starting Mac OS X...". I miss the old one :p

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^ What do you mean? It has many aspects of OS X. The finder, the dock, Spotlight. I think you were just thrown off by the wallpaper and perhaps the folder icons or application icons. Maybe it's the media player skin.

Looking at Finder, it looks very much like a Mac (and the top right hand corner, AirPort, battery, Spotlight (!)). :)

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Yeah much nicer, it seems a bit pointless now. The might as well get rid of it entirely and replace it by a longer grey + Apple logo screen. :pinch:

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Starting Mac OS X is a lot friendlier than the other array of crap it was saying. Besides, how was the first one any better? It only told you what was starting up. That's something you should know already if you're a tech.

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^ What do you mean? It has many aspects of OS X. The finder, the dock, Spotlight. I think you were just thrown off by the wallpaper and perhaps the folder icons or application icons. Maybe it's the media player skin.

Looking at Finder, it looks very much like a Mac (and the top right hand corner, AirPort, battery, Spotlight (!)). :)

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the shortcut on the lower right corner made me think it isnt tiger. ;)

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rich_75034

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the shortcut on the lower right corner made me think it isnt tiger. ;)

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Have you never created an alias (shortcut) on your desktop? They have the little arrow next to them like that?

I'm not saying that it is or isn't Tiger. Only that the shortcut in the lower right hand corner does not prove your case..

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that doesnt look like mac osx, but still pretty nice.

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lol, it really is OS X 10.4 though. I have been using XMMS as my audio player which probably confused you.

by the way... is winamp avalible for mac? i do only use itunes...

There is a version for OS 9 which you can run via Classic in OS X. I use XMMS and am working on getting Beep Media Player working with Jack Audio output on OS X.

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