OSX Leopard build 9A377a has been seeded, and Think Secret has the details. Most notable improvements include much better stability, Airport Utility 5.0, a new Sharing preferences pane, improved Address Book, new overall System Preferences (now called v5.0; for the sake of trivia, Tiger’s is v3.5, so it appears v4 has been skipped entirely on account of it being bad and spray-painting bus windows black), improved Spotlight, and a new Core Animation-powered screensaver, called Shell. Also, performance has been improved with the QuickLook feature, which allows the viewing of images and videos right from the Finder.
To look directly at the 9A377a screenshot gallery, mosey on over here.
My take: despite the improved stability, we’re nowhere near RTM. LoopRumor’s March 24th date for Leopard is all but fiction at this point. I stick to my prediction of late May/early June (I’d bet May first) for Leopard to appear on shelves.
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16 responses so far ↓
Sebhelyesfarku // March 5, 2007 at 12:40 pm
When will the pinstripe and brushed metal shite disappear from the windows… I want the unified window look to unify the entire Aqua.
chotty // March 5, 2007 at 12:57 pm
From what I hear, the Finder will undergo an entire new look: Glossy black called “Luminous”.
We shall see…
Jeff Ventura // March 5, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Seb: the rumor as I have heard it will be that Leopard gets a GUI overhaul much like you mention. If I recall correctly, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber has predicted the same.
Jeff Ventura // March 5, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Chotty: where have you seen/heard that? That’s a new one to me.
Mike // March 5, 2007 at 2:28 pm
I found a bug which makes me very afraid of using it: it incorrectly calculates space on my 1TB server volume (Buffalo TeraStation connected via NFS).
Jeff Ventura // March 5, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Mike: that’s what dev seeds are for — to get nastiness like that out of the code. I would hope something like that gets squashed before GA.
michaelsanford // March 5, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Wohoo Snap preview in Safari.
I’m really excited about the new AirPort Admin Utility, they’ve finally designed a great wireless administrative product (er, so the screenshots depict).
Daniel Strube // March 5, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Macs are for people who dont know how to use a computer and have no desire to learn how.
Jeff Ventura // March 5, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Michael: the best part about Safari 3 for me? Support for rich text controls, which means that all these web apps that use them (like WordPress.com’s web composition interface) will finally not be neutered under Safari. Which means I might be able to ditch FF2. We’ll see.
ckdckd // March 5, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Daniel: I guess that’s why I see so many of them at advanced technical conferences for system administrators.
michaelsanford // March 5, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Jeff: that sounds pretty good! One advantage Safari definitely has over Firefox is that it’s a bit less bloated.
Daniel Strube // March 6, 2007 at 12:30 am
LOL @ Firefox being bloated. Are you like totally retarded or something?
Yes, random asshole who responded to me, you see them because: heres a clue, “System administrators” deal with complicated SHIT all day long, for their fucking jobs- so i can level with them wanting to be a simpleton when they arent working. Cheers asshole.
issis // March 6, 2007 at 2:32 am
Tiger has been out for so long… don-t know if I want to change the security I had with it… got to go back to work, my first film!!!
Jeff Ventura // March 6, 2007 at 7:15 am
Michael: Safari is a pure Cocoa app, which means its OSX native in the purest sense. FF2 is not. That’s what I like about it the most.
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gwhiz // March 6, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Did you see that 9A377a SERVER is now seeded as of today. Got mine from the good ole ADC.
The seed.rtf on this one suggests to serious progress toward GM release + the fact that Client actually went out and asked for (and received) an updated iTunes. That tells me what we already knew… We’re getting close!
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