Mac OS X 'Leopard'-related Discussion

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JoHideo

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Is there an official release date besides "sometime in October"? Also, I was planning on buying a refurb mini to give me my first taste of Apple. I heard that when the last OS was released, there was a certain grace period so that you could request the new OS to be sent to you since you purchased so recently. What was this grace period and would it apply to refurbs?

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I imagine an official release date will be announced in the next few weeks.

Apple usually takes advantage of any extra time they can get, so I would think late October is what their aiming for.

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.Neo

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I finally got the chance to play around with the latest Leopard build. As I noticed before this build is much, much more refined than the one from WWDC and the few other ones that followed. Many of the UI elements have been updated including the control buttons of QuickTime.

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Overall I find Mac OS X Leopard to be quite fast on my iMac, although the UI feels a bit sluggish at time, like when dragging windows around.

Loving the new min/max/close buttons!

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.Neo

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Like I said: I like 'em. :cool:

It's just a bit too bad there isn't more animating stuff, like fade-ins and outs. They spend all this time developing Core Animation, yet hardly no additional effects throughout the system and its applications can be found.

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like I expected Apple fixed the Spotlight Menu to adapt to both Aqua and Graphite:

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It's amazing how truly instant Spotlight is in Leopard.

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RadishTM Veteran

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^ You want it to become like Windows Vista in-terms of animation?

I'm still waiting for Leopard to be somewhat unified graphically, but I fear I will be disappointed.

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.Neo

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^ You want it to become like Windows Vista in-terms of animation?

I'm still waiting for Leopard to be somewhat unified graphically, but I fear I will be disappointed.

Radish?

Well I do kinda like how every window does a quick animation upon opening in Windows Vista. Looks cool. It's too bad that only Finder and Quick Look windows do an animation.

What more unification do you want btw? In which areas?

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What more unification do you want btw? In which areas?

I just want it to be more aesthetic, with the colours and "toolbar" buttons within applications (would like them to follow a unified set).

Vista's teal colour scheme puts me off, has different shades all over the place.

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UNO is doing it wrong though. The contextual format bar is supposed to merge in with Unified toolbar. And why does the comments icon not have text underneath it?

It's likely doing it wrong because UNO hasn't been updated to work with Leopard yet.

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So far I'm unimpressed by what I've seen of Leopard. They won't fix the Finder - I don't like the idea of Coverflow previews in the least. Most the 'new' features seem gimmicky. I'm not expecting a revolutionary new OS every 2 years but there are some flaws with OS X that they don't even seem to be addressing.

I'm therefore considering seriously not buying 10.5 and I'm really not even considering buying a new Mac. I'm probably going to install Linux on my iMac G5 and buying a Windows computer. It would genuinely be nice if there were more 'Windows' app makers making OS X apps but since that's not going to happen, I'm going back to Windows - though my Windows computer is not going to connect to the Internet! ;)

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