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.
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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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNot 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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplySchramm:
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!"
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 Permalink rate up rate down Replydoes 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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyJust wondering why Macenstein get's credit for this? Because you found it there?
June 16 2009 at 3:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyits because the comments there are hilarious I bet!
June 16 2009 at 8:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDid 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...
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 Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDirect Download = http://www.theapplegalaxy.com/?attachment_id=265
June 16 2009 at 3:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDid they release this wallpaper into the public domain, or is it still copyrighted?
June 16 2009 at 2:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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