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Screenshots of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Leaked
gorman writes "Screenshots of Apple's next major update to OS X, Panther (10.3), have finally been leaked to the web. For months very little has been known about Panther, with only several minor rumors here and there. These screenshots show off many new features, including the return of labels, a brand new Safari-like finder, and an interesting window management system called Exposé. In addition, the screenshots show off refined visuals and improvements to all of the included Apple applications, such as video support in iChat and enhanced spam filtering in Mail. While these screenshots show off a pre-release version of Panther, it's definitely interesting to see what Apple is working on! Steve Jobs will demonstrate Panther during his keynote this Monday at WWDC and will make it available to developers."
Looks like apple is poised again to take charge of the future of OSes. I can't wait till monday so i can see what will be in longhorn 2005.
"experience'.... Blah, how lame. Its soooo overused these days it makes me sick.
Between that and Microsoft's ' rich internet experience' crap.
Its a damned OS, its a TOOL.. its not some drug induced altered state of mind...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
It looks exactly the same! That is just too cool!
--sdem
Uh oh, now the discussion will become yet another BitTorrent FaQ thread.
I fought the corporate America, and the corporate America bought the law.
I can't decide if this poster is a troll or an imbecile.
Perhaps both.
I dont understand ? unless the person leaking the screenshots ws looking at porn or something?
Well spoken! ;)
Either slashdot should retract all articles that might be read on other news sites, or at least apologise profusely for being so redundant.
In fact, Slashdot should really just close up shop since all they do is repeat articles and news easily gleaned from browsing through 5 or 10 thousand websites, and a few hundred newsgroups.
Admit it Slashdot, you're just a wanna be
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Come on, what more did you expect from such a belaguered computer maker?
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Yeah, it's so unfair that people want to get paid for things they've put years of work into. Everyone should just give you whatever you want for free. That makes much more sense.
Of interest... looking at my web server logs for the torrent above, the overwhelming majority of the users grabbing Mac images via a mostly-Linux news site are running... Windows
That's because we're all so technically l337 that we've altered the user agent string so we can access our online banking.
:wq
True, but it's a normal Mail.app screen with nothing in the inbox. That's some damn good spam filtering.
Steve Jobs come on stage, talks about lots of nifty new stuff for a long while, then prepare to go away, turn back to face the crowd...
"Oh, and one more thing, I almost forgot to talk about Panther..."
Audience yawns, somebody yells "We already saw the sceenshots!"
Steve looks a little bit disoriented "euh, yes, hum"...
But quickly recovers "Oh, and one more thing, we have at the back a demonstration machine of the new PowerMacs coming to market next month, you are really going to shit in your pants with these"
A few Apple guys come on stage with a machine described by Steve as a dual G5 (970) 2GHz, audience yawns, somebody yells "Yes, we have known for THREE BLOODY DAYS".
Steve positively looks finished, his face looking down, his speech notes fall from his hands, the lights on stage dim out while he slowly turns to exit, he advances near the back of the stage, and stops!
A spot lights up on him, his hunched body straightens up, he turns back to face the crowd with a small smile on his face, advance to the podium with long strides and start speaking:
"You will have to excuse me but I almost forgot this one LAST thing due to ship in two month."
Curtains open, revealing another machine which Jobs describes as a dual PPC G5 (970) 2.5GHz with more bells and whistles than you can shake a stick at to an audience that stays here gobsmacked, not believing what they see.
After having written this I guess I will be labeled a deluded Mac Zealot but the truth is that while MacOSX makes me drool (figuratively of course) I never owned a Mac myself but if I was in Steve Jobs position with a long string of surprises at previous keynotes and with a new architecture that cannot be too surprising in itself given how badly it is needed and expected I probably would manufacture some rumours and faked leaks to dull people's expectancy into a big surprise and then I would use a wild card to shock and awe (to reuse an already overused term) the audience by its unexpectedness as much as by its intrinsic quality. Of course this is assuming that Apple does have such a card up its sleeve.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,