Holy Crap! I think It'd be hard to fake something like that.

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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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looks legit..looks to difficult to replicate...

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We'll see, if Apple Legal shows up suing everyone then is legit :D

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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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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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.... Ummmm..... yeah, what Nate said.

I just don't have the words for this...

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Gimmie! Gimmie!

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Wow! Looks very real to me!!

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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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*note if it is real the seperate iCal and Address book icons in the dock...

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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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but, why would they be testing on a PPC, the future for apple is intel so why test on outdated proscessors?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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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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@ tripdragon (#12)

You can jump around with shortcut keys through tabs in Safari.

Follow Me, Command + Shift + "}" or "{"

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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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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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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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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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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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