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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."
Whos willing to bet that the very accidental leak of G5 specs came from the same people who very accidentaly leaked these screenshots.
A few things:
1) I completely stoked to see Security having it's own control panel.
2) Where's the advanced spam filtering mentioned? I just see the normal Mail.app screen.
3) I don't see the Safari driven finder either. It's just the normal finder window with a brushed metallic look. (I still haven't made up my mind on the metallic. I don't hate it, but it's not lickable like the rest of the OS)
4) For anyone who's never used them, folder actions kick ass.
Can't wait till monday.
-E2
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The image with the small sized windows I believe is the new app - Exposé
It scales all windows so that they can all fit on hte screen at once showing you everything you're doing - you lcik on one and they revert to their normal state but with the selected window in the forground.
Or at least thats how I imagine it from the description.
Matt Thompson - Actuality - Insert product here.
It did receive fixes. Before some 10.2.x update, Mail.app would have serious problems with nested IMAP folders. I reported the bug to apple and they fixed it.
All I have to complain about is that with large folders it appears to stall indexing them but simply quitting and restarting it clears the issue (and no, Force Quit doesn't destroy anything). Also I wouldn't mind if it had parallel IMAP/POP connections but as far as I'm concerned I'm very pleased by it.
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What's with all the "brushed metal"-looking programs this time around? I thought Apple was going for UI consistancy. Surely having a bunch of built-in programs that look totally different from everything else on the system defeats the purpose here? And if you must violate your own UI consistancy standards, you should at least do it for something less ugly-looking than brushed metal. Ew!
Taken directly from the MacRumors forums:
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Re: This is fake
First, I'm really really really pissed off because I wrote this whole message and then accidentally deleted it. Seems you can't control-Z in these input boxes.
Second, I think these shots are fake, too. I hope they are for some of the reasons outlined below. I'll be going into a lot less detail in light of the fact that I'm having to type it all again. I did do an Observation/Conclusion thing, but this time I'll just make the observations and you can make your own conclusions.
I have only skimmed the thread, so apologies if these points have been brought up. Just seemed like everyone was "WOOHOO"ing without really looking closely. And similarity to other posts is just coincidence.
OBSERVATION: In the Activity Monitor window there are strange inconsistencies.
* First there are really tacky colours. Windows type tacky colour, not beautiful Apple colours.
* Second, the "% Nice" uses a , to seperate the decimals, not a . like the rest of the %'s. This smacks to me of a slip-up by someone European making the fakes.
* Third, the "Threads" and "Processes" don't line up right. Unless this is a very early build, it's very sloppy.
OBSERVATION: Yahoo Instant messenger is in the dock and on the desktop. If this is Panther, that presumably means no Yahoo support in iChat.
OBSERVATION: In the full screen of the expose desktop, Safari is all blocked out. Why? What incriminating website could he/she be looking at?
OBSERVATION: Why are the iChat windows censored totally? Why not just block them out like the Safari window?
OBSERVATION: About Finder is all wrong. "The Macintosh Desktop Experience"? And why "Finder version 10.3" rather than "Mac OS X (10.3)" like we'd expect? These aren't big things, obviously, but still...
OBSERVATION: No build number. Seems strange, since they'll most likely be giving out preview copies on Monday, and developers will want to know what build they're working with. If it's the final release, how did slip-ups like above creep in?
OBSERVATION: In the iChat window, it says "There is no camera attached to this computer." Yet the progress bar seems to be showing activity of some sort?
OBSERVATION: The Finder window named Xdrive is metal, but not entirely consistently. The metal has a bar down the right, next to the scroll bar, unlike Safari. This on its own is nothing that important, but the grow icon thing in the bottom right seems misplaced.
OBSERVATION: In the Mail screenshot, the "Working Offline" seems all wrong. Especially the "o" in working.
It just seems all wrong to me. I'm bound to end up with egg on my face, but I thought these items needed discussion.
- Jimmni
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Points worth thinking about.
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I understand completely though. And I'm not poking fun. After all...
I'd browse about, dreaming of getting out of that as well. :-)
where they assuming that Apple users can't distinguish right from left ?
I don't know about Mac users, but I know plenty of Windows users who can't seem to tell right from left. If I only had a nickel for every time this exchange has taken place during a tech support call I have taken from a Windows user:
Me: "Okay, now right-click on that icon to bring up the context menu, and select 'Properties' from it."
Them: "Ok, I clicked on it, but the icon just goes dark."
Me: "Did you click, or right-click?"
Them: "What do you mean, 'right-click'?
Me: "Right-click, as in, click the right mouse button."
Them [astonished]: "You mean it does *something else*???"
Let me tell you how Apple came to use the horrible, one-button mouse. When they were developing the Lisa and Mac, they were also hiring scads of employees to do admin & custodial jobs and other non-techie stuff. Many of them had never touched a computer before, and Apple used them for testing to find the optimal number of buttons on the mouse. One is the correct number of buttons for the uninitated user, as borne out by usability testing. When people get used to their machine and learn the ins and outs of the OS, they can cough up a couple bucks for a multi-button mouse with lots of bells and whistles.
Finally, I do believe that recent changes to Apple's nomenclature indicate that the new towers to be announced Monday will include a multi-button mouse with a scroll wheel-- the mouse that comes with the consumer level systems has been changed from "Pro Mouse" to just plain "Mouse," and I think the new keyboard that has begun shipping with those systems is likewise simply named "Keyboard." This could indicate that the "professional" desktop Macs are going to ship with more feature-laden mice and keyboards than the machines aimed at Grandma and other first-time computer users.
~Philly
Apple is quite clear on this point when you read the developer documentaion of the UI.
Brushed Metal is for all "digital lifestyle" applications. That is, applications that control such devices or use/manipulate the data from those devices (photos, music, video, contacts).
Aqua is for everything else (graphics, sound, animation, text). If an application is not used primarily to interface with digital lifesyle devices, it should use the standard Aqua theme.
Apple's thinking was that this provides a distinction between a "general use" app and a "limited use" app. iPhoto is an exreemely useful app, only if you have lots of photos and/or a digital camera. Photoshop is useful without either. The brushed metal interface also somewhat mimics the curent fad of bright metal cases on consumer devices, much like stereo equipment from the 70s. This is a subliminal "ease of use" thing.
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Yes the g4 sucks goatballs compared to your system. No arguments from me here. The reason for this is your 2001 cpu is actually newer then Motorolla's G4! The G4 is well over 5 years old. Imagine using a pentium or pentium pro today? It was designed in 1997 and came out in late 98/early 99.
They have really screwed Apple and I am glad they finally booted them off their platform.
Traditionally PowerPC based macs were twice as fast as Windows machines or close to the same speed for half the price during the mid 1990's.
What changed is Motorolla's commitment, the cheaper development of wintel boxes, and the AMD vs Intel war.
Motorolla's shareholders do not want to upgrade their chip facilities as well as invest R&D for cutting edge chip designs. Its expensive and the embedded market is more profitable for them.
Then why are G4's expensive? Motorolla must use Intel for chip development. Intel of course charges the competition alot. Second to meet shareholders expectations they need to raise the price of their G3's and G4's and use the money to create embedded chips so they can claim they are growing on their SEC sheets.
Third, G4's are slow because they were designed in the 1990's and use ancient SDRAM technology. The new DDR based mac's have a chipset to slow down access from the memory to the cpu! Yes the pci based devices can use the newer memory but not the crippled g4's.
Motorolla even tried to make a g4 with full ddr support via the G5, but did not plan on improving any radical performance boasts. They were still planning to charge an arm and a leg and provide a inferior solution. After all they owned a monopoly on the cpu for the mac right? Wrong.
Anyway the new IBM built 64 bit macs in which Panter is designed for are very very fast. Go read some preliminayr leaked benchmarks at macslash.org for more info.
IBM wants to make cheap blade servers running AIX so they needed to mass produce a slimmed down version of their power4 processor. Apple is perfect for creating large bulk to reduce costs for IBM. The powerpc970 aka g5 aka power4-lite is a slimmed down power4 powerpc based processor. It can easily beat a pentiumIII 3ghz hands down in most benchmarks( real, not photoshop ). For things like encryption key building its almost twice as fast.
But the cool thing about this is that they use so little watts. Risc processors make great laptops.
What you say it true for at least the next couple of months. I would not touch a mac today. However by christmass....
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