Two images that are purported to be “Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard screenshots” are available on the “Trinity Rubicon” blog. Labeled “Finder & Internet Explorer” and “Desktop Switcher” the reader speculation below the images runs the gamut from “cool” to “obvious Photoshop fake” with nary a vote for Gimp.
We assume that, if real, the discontinued-on Mac “Internet Explorer” shows a Windows application running seamlessly in Leopard. Have Apple and the Darwine folks been working together? Or is Mac OS X’s long-rumored “Red Box” for natively running Windows applications actually being used in the images?
See them here.
MacDailyNews Take: What do you think? Trinity Rubicon’s back catalog seems to consist of just this one “Leopard Screenshots” post. Based on the definitions of “Trinity” and “Rubicon,” are these actual images of a triple-threat (Mac, Linux, Windows) Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 that proves Apple’s bound and determined to cross the point of no return?
[UPDATE: 6/24: The author of the screenshots has admitted to faking them. More info here.]
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Photoshop.
OH SHIAT!
Real or Not?
Whatever…
Tabbed Finder Windows would be a logical and fantastic feature.
goatse!
Is it still worth bundling Internet Explorer for Mac considering its age?
I guess so since it still does work with some M$ centric web sites.
Real
Photoshop
Real!
I don’t know what to think, coffee hasn’t kicked in yet.
The main thing for me is that Windows is sandboxed completely, with not even read/write ability to the HFS+ Mac OS X partition, definably no root access. Mac OS X would be the gatekeeper and overseer.
With exploits happening almost on a daily basis with Microsoft products, even OfficeMac isn’t immune, this is the only way I would even consider running their code.
I would also like the ability not to see Windows when running Win apps, unless I needed it to.
My artistic eyes just can’t stand the mediocre and depressing interface.
One more thing, if I need full Windows performance, I should be able to get it easily and it the interface should be seamless. I should also be able to run other OS’s like Linux, DOS etc with the same ease, grace and seamless operation.
Should a OS partition get compromised or corrupted, I should have the ability to jettison it easily and rebuild it from a encrypted partition in just two clicks. Diddo for Mac OS X.
Fake.
No version / build number on OS X.
Why would Apple include information about Windoze on the about pane ? Why not Linux ?
The switching effect is too ugly for Apple.
Looks fake to me.
Dammit Bill, it’s photoshop!
address book and ical as one application?… nice…
Good old Photoshop…
@bjh, Apple would include the version of Windows, Vista is coming soon remember. And to Apple, Linux doesn’t even exist. I’m not saying it’s real, I think it’s bullcrap.
bjh: to quote a reply from the original link: “in recent builds of Mac OS X you click the version number and it cycles through the build and serial numbers.”
kirktalon:
goob – that’s IE for WINDOWS.
This is proporting to show…
1. 10.5 is going to have native support for running windows apps side-by-side with Mac apps. Think Classic, but not for Mac OS 9, but rather, Windows.
2. desktop switching, tho i’ll bite my dog if they were to keep the portal-o-death switching metaphor.
3. Brushed Metal is DEAD DEAD DEAD! Sorry guys, i was eating some weird new spiced tofu at the time i came up with brushed metal.. i’ve mended my ways.
4. the lack of “dink-dink’s” at the bottom of the colum view separators means that i’ve finally gotten them to fix the damn problem with odd-sizing, and is now doing some kind of smart sizing… and its about damn time.
– the other steve jobs
bkh:
Before you get smug and all “i know it all” on us, know what you’re talking about.
build numbers don’t show up in the “About this Mac” window unless you click on the version number. Its been this way since DP 4.
why you posted this both on the site page and here just makes you look twice as DOH!
-the other steve jobs
Well, it’s fake. Core Duo only support DDR2 SDRAM
This would fit perfectly with the Intel patent mentioned previously – Windows apps running like Citrix windows and unable to affect/infect the MacOS. The big question that remain is still: can it use the graphics card at full speed?
The other big issue (if the screenshots are not fakes) is the virtual desktop capability. For those 80-90% of us who don’t care for Windows, this is the big new feature. Notice the (1) change to a (2) in the menu bar presumably allowing for as many virtual desktops as you have RAM for. SUN has this in Solaris with 4 by default (correct me if wrong) and it is great. I only hope it works for PPC folks too.
If true this is HUGE for:
• Education
• Web designers
• Mac orphans in PC-shops (me)
• Programmers and testers (me)
• Corporate standard-operating-environments
• Bleeding-edge adopters
• Virtual-server operators (think racks of X-Servers running anything all at the same time for multiple clients each protected from one another)
Magic word ‘whether’ as in, with Leopard the whether is looking sunny.
If this is fake, then someone has a ton of extra time and intuitive thought to make something only for the purpose to get all us
Mac folks in a tizzy. This same person should be using his talents to make extra income instead. I would like to believe this is real.
if photoshopped, very well done. there are a lot of details that lead me to believe otherwise though.
1)the slash button next to the cog wheel button on the finder.
2)the boot camp icon in the menu bar.
3)the number encircled in the menu bar changes, perhaps signifying which desktop is being used?
4)address book icon includes a date, perhaps ical has been merged with it?
5)the CoreWindows Tab in the finder menu through the peep hole.
6)no artifacts on the menu bar/dock from the peep hole effect.
1, 4, and 5 are too well thought out, in my opinion, to be a a fake.
I’ve been wrong before though.
Yeah;
latestpics.tgz
Lol!!!
Oh, and they’re PhotoShopped because NO ONE uses IE
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(MW “Research”, as in they should have done some and ran Safari)
Last time someone proomises 10.5 screenshots, I encountered the Leap A malware
I call fake
The hole to reach the second desktop might look cool, but would but terrible and annoying to use. iCandy is good but not if you get annoyed by it
I dont want IE on my desktop ever