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Leopard screen shots?
Powermac99 over at LeopardTracker sent me this link to some supposed Leopard screen shots. He -- and I -- can't verify their authenticity, but we've seen nothing that immediately strikes us as fake (aside from the "1983-2005" copyright on the About This Mac window, but as he points out, that could just mean that Leopard development started in 2005). And we've pretty much ruled out the "it's just a skin" factor because of the "Places" label and the "~/" mark in the Finder. There's probably a 90% chance this is photoshopped and I know you, dear detail-mincing readers, will tell me exactly why.But hey, WWDC is right around the corner and with these screen shots we can officially declare Leopard Rumor Season open. Let the speculation begin!
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John Pastor said 9:10PM on 6-20-2006
It's a total fake, the Window titles are a mix between Myriad Pro and Lucida Grande in most places. Myriad Pro is for Apple marketing packages and images only.
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Matt Morano said 9:17PM on 6-20-2006
http://www.macthemesforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=2035&highlight=leopard
That screenshot has been around for a while, and it's fake. The MacThemes link above proves it.
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Cody Dildy said 9:33PM on 6-20-2006
I hope it is a fake because it looks boring as hell.
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Derek said 9:33PM on 6-20-2006
http://www.leopardtracker.com/screenshots/screenshot-2.jpg
It's fake, but looks cool. It is almost like Virtue.
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Aaron said 9:40PM on 6-20-2006
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
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Aaron said 9:41PM on 6-20-2006
^^ Right in the EXIF info...
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Galen D. W. said 9:43PM on 6-20-2006
Very fake:
Italics in a web page title? No.
What's with the gray-style scroll-bar in Safari if the rest of the interface is blue?
"2,25" means that it's a non-US localization. Why would they be testing that right now?
1.33 GHz G4? That's kinda a wimpy system for writing a new OS.
Fonts are all wrong.
If they're truly testing the OS, why doesn't their dock have any programming/debugging apps in it? (It does have Photoshop though...)
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Ian P said 9:47PM on 6-20-2006
If it were real, it would be a very early screen shot. 9A39 would be very early in the development cycle (probably only 2-3 months or so, since the initial builds aren't turned out very fast). Think of it this way, when Tiger went GM it was at 8A428.
Now, I doubt these screenshots are real, and I think leopard's UI, while remaining familiar will probably look significantly overhauled compared to that.
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Simon x said 10:20PM on 6-20-2006
Recently I was at an InDesign training course put on by adobe and apple and I believe that I may have seen 'OS X 10.5 Leopard' on one of the Adobe instructors laptops which was being projected to the screen. I can not be certain it was... but the most substancial differences I noticed were that the Apple logo in the menu bar was grey, more defined and approximately 90% the size of the current blue apple logo. Also, the'convenience' icons on the top right where the battery indicator etc.. looked different.
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Mark Watson said 11:09PM on 6-20-2006
Um..... Is there a difference between this and Tiger? It looks the same to me...
P.S. I am a PC user, so I probably just can't see the miniscule differences in the UI.
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abzfigo said 11:20PM on 6-20-2006
"But hey, WWDC is right around the corner and with these screen shots we can officially declare Leopard Rumor Season open. Let the speculation begin!"
Oh dear. Does this mean that Leopard rumour-mongering is going to officially replace all the delightful 'Macbooks next Tuesday' double-talk we've been subjected to for the past 5 or so months? :p *sigh*
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mark said 11:24PM on 6-20-2006
@ abzfigo, no remember with Tiger they announced the date it was to
come out & Apple had a countdown on the front page?
Anyway...
th4t scr33nsh0t is teh suxxx0rz.
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David Chartier said 11:45PM on 6-20-2006
If that's the 'redesigned Finder', I think this is proof that their devs have been spending WAY too much time partying on that train we blogged a few weeks back.
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Scott said 12:06AM on 6-21-2006
You can change the interface in by opening up the .nib files in the application. Such as changing texture, and others. All you need to do is interface builder. The date is wrong, in Tiger, the date is 1983 - 2006, that is 2005. So the date is also wrong. Also, didn't the logo change in the "About This Mac" change when Tiger was released? If it did, then it seems like it would change again. Hmm. it certainly isn't real.
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Joe said 12:09AM on 6-21-2006
also, the document open in textedit is a .pages document, which does not open in 10.4 textedit.
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sid said 12:26AM on 6-21-2006
is this the look at pictures of leopard and get the only known mac virus again?
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Fuzzi said 12:49AM on 6-21-2006
It's two old fake...
A the right, just a fake, and at the left, Mac OS X with Uno.
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Rafe said 12:57AM on 6-21-2006
Tiger's TexEdit.app can open MS Word documents. Hopefully Leopard's TextEdit.app will be able to open Pages documents. That would make sense. Why favor Word? And, no reverse-engineering required.
The virtual desktop implementation is great. Very consistent with Dashboard and Expose.
The colored Finder window sidebar is consistent with other "source" sidebars in Mail.app, iTunes.app, iPhoto.app, etc.
Fake or not, the design is nice and consistent.
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Yottabyte, Qc. said 1:33AM on 6-21-2006
a noob would see what is wrong with this pic.
the file size mention beside the icon and at the bottom of the window, check my link,
http://cyberpsycho-blog.blogspot.com/2006/06/fake-screenshot-of-leopard.html
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Alex said 3:25AM on 6-21-2006
These showed up on Flickr a while ago - another vote for fake
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