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Yet Another Leopard...wait, video?
Well, well. Those "Leopard" screen shots monopolizing the rumor sites sure are nice to look at, but how much could you possibly get from some images? Yeah, not much. Besides, they're basically all confirmed as fakes.Which is why I was incredibly interested to see this blog point to this video(!!), supposedly depicting an early version of the famed cat/OS -- particularly a new iTunes-themed Finder with tabs. There's nothing in it that strikes me as glaringly fake, but of course this could all be an elaborate hoax concocted by an OS X themer who lives with his mother, gets a high by fantasizing about using the latest unreleased Mac OS, and has way, way too much time on his hands.
And of course I'm leaving it to you, dear readers, to point out all the things in this video that make it a fake. Ready? Go!
[via LeopardTracker]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Nate said 10:44PM on 6-28-2006
Holy Crap! I think It'd be hard to fake something like that.
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Michael LaFramboise said 10:45PM on 6-28-2006
Fake or not, but theres like a 99% chance that apple will include these features (tabbed finder being one of them) into 10.5, so really whats the difference between fake and real other then the fakes come 20 days earlier :p
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Ruben Santiago said 10:52PM on 6-28-2006
looks legit..looks to difficult to replicate...
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Rafael said 10:57PM on 6-28-2006
We'll see, if Apple Legal shows up suing everyone then is legit :D
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Brett said 10:58PM on 6-28-2006
Fake or not, can't really tell. If someone did actually have the pre-release installed, wouldn't they be able to show us anything more than a tabbed finder window and the "about" screen? The brevity of the video and lack of any real new features is what makes me suspicious.
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Gene said 10:58PM on 6-28-2006
Not difficult to fake at all -- just create a movie of what you want to show, and then play it full screen on the iMac and videotape it. Note that you don't see anyone working the Mac, just video of a screen...
Although this tabbed Finder window seems pretty much like people expect from Leopard, so the jury is out on whether this is fake or not. For now.
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Chris W. said 10:58PM on 6-28-2006
.... Ummmm..... yeah, what Nate said.
I just don't have the words for this...
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Liquidmark said 11:03PM on 6-28-2006
Gimmie! Gimmie!
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Kory Hearn said 11:03PM on 6-28-2006
Wow! Looks very real to me!!
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Richard said 11:05PM on 6-28-2006
UNO and something like Application Enhancer? If its real, why showcase just Finder tabs? not exactly earth shattering. The look is also exactly the same as Tiger.
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Nathan said 11:13PM on 6-28-2006
*note if it is real the seperate iCal and Address book icons in the dock...
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tripdragon said 11:28PM on 6-28-2006
it's real,,, sadly that is realll... Would never expect apple to bringg out crazy inovative like piles filnder... Nah they will just sugar coat it and bring out some tiny half baked extra tabs with finder.. Doubt their will even be shortcut keys for jumpping around in the tabs like safari
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freeskihp said 11:33PM on 6-28-2006
but, why would they be testing on a PPC, the future for apple is intel so why test on outdated proscessors? Why wouldn't they be testing on the unreleased and clearly more powerful intel Mac Pro? even if they were going to test on a PPC, why an old iMac?
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David Chartier said 11:40PM on 6-28-2006
Uh, if all I get from 10.5's Finder is a basic tab function like this, I'm going to head out to Cupertino and 'pull a Steve' and start yelling at people and firing them on the spot.
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Andrew Eller said 11:45PM on 6-28-2006
@ tripdragon (#12)
You can jump around with shortcut keys through tabs in Safari.
Follow Me, Command + Shift + "}" or "{"
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tripdragon said 11:46PM on 6-28-2006
Ya,,, Do you even know what you got from Tiger ??? As a consumer tools. all you got new was spotlight and dashboard. Nothing else... Everything else was just Programmers stuff to help speed up coding..
Like that crapy core image junk that is hardly used for anything ... Motion does not count since it is useing it's own gpu stuff..
This finder tabs is basicly it.. Some improvements to spotlight, and dashboard will have the developer feature ready for users to pull a widget onto the desktop, but thats about it..
The other stuff is developer stuff like Garbage collection, dynamic res interfaces and other neat stuff no one will work with unless it really helps out..
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Bill Gates said 11:47PM on 6-28-2006
Windows Vista, Coming Next year (I hope) Has the very same look and feel, the only difference is that Vista is a totally better. Totally. Windows Vista Home Page
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tripdragon said 11:51PM on 6-28-2006
Yeah I know safari has shortcut keys, I mean finder will not have them.. Think, command t adds a selected item to teh sidebar, but yet again half baked, there is no shot cut to remove them.
That would have been tabs right there! This tabs thing could have been added to finder in less than two days if apple treated the os software like small companies and released small new updates every two months or so. But noooo it has to be one HUGE ordeal with a new point update wooo
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Zweihander said 12:07AM on 6-29-2006
Tabs will likely be like in Safari. There, but not enabled by default.
Yes, Tiger was a lot of improvements for developers. Major improvements, like freezing APIs and the whole Quartz 3D Xtreme or whatever. Not only to attract devs, but to keep them during the PPC->Intel transition and make it as smooth as possible. Hell, the focus on devs for Tiger was what helped spur my Switch last summer, since I'd like to get my feet into the Mac software pool.
Tiger was a stability release, in a way. It gave them a nice jumping off point for the Intel switch, and a stable release is always a Good Thing. And it's a mishmash of Micro and Monolithic kernels, I'm surprised they pulled it off in the first place, let alone release a "HUGE ordeal" update every so often.
As for the video, I thought 10.5 was going to be Intel only. So why's it on a PPC? Unless I heard wrong or they're just being super-thorough with their testing.
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RaVeNouS said 12:18AM on 6-29-2006
Wow, this looks pretty nice. So I'm unsure, do you think we will have to buy a new version OS or will it be a free upgrade? It would suck to have bought a new computer and a couple of weeks later have a new OS come out.
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