System Preference changes, new Preview toolbar in latest Leopard build

To SSteve: I am disappointed as well about the wireless not having a number pad. At least give people a choice, such as for $80 you get the small one and for $90 you get the regular keyboard, just no wires, like the previous model.

"the Command key on the Keyboard and Mouse icon no longer has the Open Apple. Sad."

I'm all for adding "command". It makes it a lot easier to help my mother over the phone. But why get rid of the apple? There's plenty of room for it in the upper left corner of the key.

The biggest keyboard goof is leaving the cursor and numeric keys off the wireless keyboard. I use an external wireless keyboard with my PowerBook specifically because it has those extra keys. So hopefully by the time Apple makes a new-style wireless extended keyboard, it'll have the Apple back.

@PSM

They'll have a midnight launch party.
When Tiger was released, the Apple store on Michigan Ave. in Chicago had one, so I'm sure that they'll have one this time as well.

If anyone wants info about Leopard (any build), email me at

com.apple.leopard [at] gmail {dot} com

The "Exposé and Spaces" option has been named as such since the WWDC build, if I'm not mistaken.

"…the Control key on the Keyboard and Mouse icon…"

That'd be "command key".

The control key has never had the open apple. That's command. Silly tuaw.

So if I wanted Leopard the very second it came out, what's my best bet? Just go to an Apple Store? I'm in NYC so I would hope that Soho and the 5th Avenue Store would be among the first to have it in stock. I wonder if 5th Ave. would release it at midnight or something because they're open 24/7.

I got an e-mail months ago from Amazon asking if I wanted to pre-order. Somehow I think that would take longer. What are all you fellow impatient people going to do?

Scott: Yea the boss wants a new laptop now, and gave the go ahead to get the new 24" iMac, so I paced the order, completely forgetting that a new OS is just around the corner. Personally I think the new iMac was originally in line to have 10.5, so they should give the iMac purchases it for free. But of course I am cheap :).

I would cancel the order and wait, but we kinda need the computers now. If they don't offer the free/discount path, I will still buy it for basically the "Spaces" feature alone, and full Boot Camp support.

Here's a Leopard question: the preview shows a slideshow button. Any chance that they've FINALLY fixed the built-in Slideshow to display the files in order, instead of randomly? It would make that feature, introduced in Tiger I think, MUCH more useful.