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Aaron Olive

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1. The dock now has it's own shadow like a window.

2. The perspective has changed slightly.

3. The icons are lower on the dock by 3 pixels now.

4. The scurve images are gone so the dock maybe rendered by software now, indicators, dock separators and the dock's frontline are still customizable PNG's.

5. The icon shadows on the dock are now at a 90? angle instead of 45?.

6. Strangely the trash icon needs it's own reflection PNG's.

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7. There are also new dock resize cursors.

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Large comparison shots

DP3 (12A206j) custom dock

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DP4 (12A239) default dock

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Selective screenshot of the dock, notice that this screenshot only has it's reflective mask and not the shape or color of the dock?

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PyX

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Much, much better. For me. Others tell it runs pretty much the same. You'll have to try it out and see for yourself, I guess.

Still waiting for new iWork, Aperture and iTunes... please! And terribly disappointed there was no new Mini, but I guess I'll have to fetch the old Server model then. :D

Aperture has been updated to 3.3, with a couple of new things. But I understand what you mean.

We?ll see a new iTunes in September only. And iWork ? I swear it should have been updated 2 years ago.

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Depicus

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Aperture has been updated to 3.3, with a couple of new things. But I understand what you mean.

We?ll see a new iTunes in September only. And iWork ? I swear it should have been updated 2 years ago.

i have to say I HATE the new no colour Aperture, why would you want to make the world so bland. On the plus side FCPX has lost it's stupid black menu :)

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Much, much better. For me. Others tell it runs pretty much the same. You'll have to try it out and see for yourself, I guess.

Still waiting for new iWork, Aperture and iTunes... please! And terribly disappointed there was no new Mini, but I guess I'll have to fetch the old Server model then. :D

I'm excited about iWork (Pages/Numbers/Keynote) since giving my copy of Microsoft Office 2011 to my old man. What I would like to see is a 64bit version of compressor - I was disappointed after buying it finding that it still only a 32bit application :(

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.Neo

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I honestly can't believe how good my desktop looks right now. Whoa. :|

On my 27-inch iMac pretty much all Aqua elements and icons look so much crisper compared to OS X Lion and any version before that. Loving the new tab view in Safari 6 as well! Download the uploaded picture instead of using the Neowin viewer for better quality.

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Aaron Olive

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I honestly can't believe how good my desktop looks right now. Whoa. :|

On my 27-inch iMac pretty much all Aqua elements and icons look so much crisper compared to OS X Lion and any version before that. Loving the new tab view in Safari 6 as well! Download the uploaded picture instead of using the Neowin viewer for better quality.

The new dock is just amazing, but a lot of people will be upset that their dock themes won't work anymore. :(

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Elliott

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Anyone else able to drag icons off their dock? Mine keep snapping back in. I have to right click to remove em.

Drag them off and then hold them off for a few seconds. It'll eventually show a little poof. They did that to prevent accidental drags.

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Rudy

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Drag them off and then hold them off for a few seconds. It'll eventually show a little poof. They did that to prevent accidental drags.

It's actually a good idea...I did remove some items sometimes.... not a problem for me but I know some people who don't really know what happened and how to get the icon back
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Lunfai

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Using DP3 still and iCloud tabs have been enabled, you can only access tabs when you lock the device, it'll sync the tabs with the Desktop. Been using it a lot, and I just use them in and out of bed.

Installed DP4, but haven't gotten the chance to move over. I'm going to have to finish some work before I can migrate. Loving the new dock bar and the new fused reflections. Looking forward to see more.

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Quillz

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There was an application out there that let me adjust the size of the Dock by seeing its vertical pixels, right? I think it was called SuperDocker or something. Anyway, does anyone know the default pixel height of the ML Dock?

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Aaron Olive

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There was an application out there that let me adjust the size of the Dock by seeing its vertical pixels, right? I think it was called SuperDocker or something. Anyway, does anyone know the default pixel height of the ML Dock?

The Dock Dimensions are 900px x 128px
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.Neo

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On my 27-inch iMac the default size is 85 pixels high. You can change the hight manually by modifying the values of com.apple.dock.plist or just Trash the file and restart the Dock to get the defaults back. You'll loose some other preferences like Hot Corners too I think.

It seems odd that after all this time the maximum magnification size is still 128 x 128 pixels through System Preferences... :/

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Miuku.

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Well, I installed ML DP4 on my old MBP 2007 Summer (with 8GB! :p) machine with an OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD and apart from a single freeze-on-boot, it really flies. It literally blows Lion away in speed - especially it seems they've managed to squeeze more juice out of the old GPU.

Fresh install, mind you.

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