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Snow Leopard out in September, wallpaper available now

Snow Leopard is going to be uber cheap, so there's not really any reason to not pick it up -- if you make good, regular use of your Mac, odds are that you'll also make enough use of a copy to justify the value. But even if you're not taking the $30 plunge, Macenstein has the most important part of the OS upgrade covered: the wallpaper. Just like the OS itself, Snow Leopard's wallpaper is only an incremental update from the current version (Macenstein says it looks "faster," and we can see what he means), but just in case you want to at least make your old G5's look like they're all upgraded, just "Set as Desktop Background" and there you go.

Rumors that the wallpaper will actually make your computer faster (or give you back that 6GB of hard drive space that the actual upgrade will give you) are unfounded, and probably shouldn't be trusted. But then again, you never know.

Snow Leopard is going to be uber cheap, so there's not really any reason to not pick it up -- if you make good, regular use of your Mac,...
 

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Simon Arch

Still looks ugly to me. That's OK though; I've got plenty of good walls to use instead. :)

June 16 2009 at 6:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
danielsan9

Not sure if anyone else noticed, but it looks like this new background doesn't have any of the confusing stars that compete with open Dock app icon "light bullets" or whatever you want to call them. The stars seem to fade out at the edges in this new background. Nice touch and problem solved!

June 16 2009 at 5:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kai Cherry

Schramm:

It has *never* been so obvious as it is now that:

1. People do *not* read the links back to the original stories
2. People here are humorless and bitchy.


Best laugh I've had all day; good lookin' out!

"I downloaded this wallpaper and it sped up my iPhone backups!"

June 16 2009 at 5:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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AGS

glad i wasn't the ONLY one who noticed lol, the wallpaper installed QuickTime X!! sweet!! thnx appl!!

June 16 2009 at 8:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeremy

does anyone know where to get the nature tree wallpaper featured in some of the screen shots that have been released.

June 16 2009 at 4:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian Burns

Just wondering why Macenstein get's credit for this? Because you found it there?

June 16 2009 at 3:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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AGS

its because the comments there are hilarious I bet!

June 16 2009 at 8:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stefan

Did they change anything else in the prefs in SL except the Gamma (2.2)?
Even though I put the SL Image as background it looks better when I boot in SL...

June 16 2009 at 3:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dano

It dawned on me earlier that most of the work on Snow Leopard being "under the hood", the focus being OpenCL, Exchange (finally, for those that need it anyway), Quicktime X, 64-bit processing, etc, weighing against my miniscule computing requirements, my older, Intel Macs, which won't be part of the OpenCL party (non-supported graphics cards), is there really going to be a point in spending even a piddly $30?

June 16 2009 at 3:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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daniel

Direct Download = http://www.theapplegalaxy.com/?attachment_id=265

June 16 2009 at 3:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Adrian vG

Sa-wheet!

June 16 2009 at 3:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
artifex

Did they release this wallpaper into the public domain, or is it still copyrighted?

June 16 2009 at 2:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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